Recruiting at Kansas is easy as 1-2-3 — so long as your last name is Self and first name is Bill.
The same success isn’t quite shared with the football program. Since 2015, the team has finished in the bottom three of the Big 12 in recruiting rankings, and losses in the league on the gridiron have been as easy to come by as blue-chippers on the hardwood in Lawrence.
So as OSU prepares to bounce back from a disappointing conference-opening loss to Texas Tech last weekend, it can do so knowing that, on Saturday, it has an advantage over the Kansas Jayhawks in terms of overall talent.