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Why special teams was — and also wasn’t — the story following KU’s loss to K-State

At first blush, the story of Kansas football’s 30-20 loss Saturday will be the special teams, a unit that cost the Jayhawks any chance of snapping an eight-game losing streak against Kansas State.

Coach David Beaty admitted as much in his postgame radio interview, citing the stat that jumped off the box score.

Average field position: K-State its own 46, KU its own 19.

“If you saw that football game, I think you would have a hard time not realizing where our breakdown was,” Beaty said.

The Jayhawks surrendered a return for touchdown for a third straight week, this one from D.