Friday, September 28, 2007
Kansas has been piling up some impressive statistics so far this season. The offense is averaging 553 yards each game and scoring almost 54 points per contest while the defense is yielding fewer than 220 yards and five points per game. In all of those categories, the Jayhawks rank in the top five nationally. Unfortunately for Kansas, the dominant performance has not earned the team much notice in the polls.
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Kansas received six votes in the AP Top 25 Poll, placing them 33rd. In the USA Today Top 25 Coaches’ Poll, Kansas garnered 20 votes, good for a share of the 29th spot. That Kansas is receiving any attention at all from national pollsters is an improvement from years past, but the small number of votes the team has received seems out of line with its nearly perfect performance.
“We just have to take care of our business, and we can’t worry about right now who should be ranked and who shouldn’t,” Kansas coach Mark Mangino said. “The key thing is taking care of business. If we keep working at it and doing what we’re doing, that will come.”
The Jayhawks have certainly taken care of business so far this season. Not only has Kansas won all of its games, Kansas has blown past its competition each week, tallying a combined score of 214-23 through four games. Despite the thrashings Kansas has delivered, a few experts have taken notice.
In ESPN.com’s most recent bowl predictions, writers Mark Schlabach and Ivan Maisel both pegged the Jayhawks for the Insight Bowl. The Insight Bowl, played on New Year’s Eve in Tempe, Ariz., pits the No. 6 team from the Big 12 Conference against the No. 6 team in the Big Ten Conference, meaning Kansas would most likely face a middling opponent such as Iowa or Purdue. Rivals.com ranked Kansas 38th in its “Rivals 120” power-rankings, citing the Jayhawks’ easy early-season schedule as the reason for the low ranking.
But for a Kansas football program that has found national respect hard to come by in recent seasons, any attention is good attention. The last time the Jayhawks entered either the AP or coaches’ top-25 poll was in 1996, when the team cracked the top 25 for three weeks.
Starting Oct. 6, Kansas plays at Kansas State, hosts Baylor and visits Colorado — a string of three winnable conference games. If the Jayhawks reach 7-0, a move into the top 25 could follow. But for now, coaches and players are standing by the time-tested cliché of taking it one game at a time.
“You just have to earn it by being consistent week after week,” Mangino said. “We can’t control the rankings, but we can control how we play and perform each week. I think our program has to prove that we can play consistently well week after week, and if we do that we’ll gain attention.”
— Edited by Amelia Freidline
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Kansas ranked low in polls
Looky Looky! Big bragging about receiving 3 votes - but KSU is acutally IN the poll not just a wannabee!
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