New year, same Kansas football.
The Jayhawks couldn’t overcome costly mistakes, falling 26-23 in overtime to FCS opponent Nicholls State on Saturday night at Booth Memorial Stadium.
Perhaps the worst part for KU fans, though? There wasn’t flukiness to this win for Nicholls State. It didn’t include crazy breaks or bad bounces.
The box-score stats — particularly in rush yards (187-56) — illustrated a cruel reality in KU’s fourth-year under coach David Beaty: Had an outsider come to the game and not known the two teams playing, he’d have struggled to pick out the FCS team from the Big 12 one.