Notebook: Kansas football excited for late kick; TCU not so much

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Kansas football players are excited about the prime time matchup with TCU because that means they won’t have an early morning wakeup call. You can’t make this stuff up!

TCU, meanwhile, doesn’t care for the night games, preferring the earlier kickoff times with the caveat that night games are better for their fans.

The Jayhawks have a tough matchup with TCU, but may have an ace in their sleeve in Doug Meacham, who came to KU from Ft. Worth. However, the opposite is also true - and TCU has held every Big 12 opponent below its season scoring average so far this year.

Frogs O War takes a look at the matchup between TCU and Kansas.

Jesse Newell has finally sobered up and stopped with the Kool-Aid.

Topen Opurum headlines the newest KUAthletics podcast alongside Brian Hanni.

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Kansas basketball will open the season as the #3-ranked team in the Coaches Poll.

What to expect from Marcus Garrett this season.

KU players expect to get a taste of the rivalry during Sunday’s exhibition with Missouri.

Officials are working to get the game televised in some manner. Additionally, it will be standard rules with one exception - each player will get up to seven fouls instead of the usual five.

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So this is an interesting piece about the Notre Dame running back who became a meme about four years ago.

Navy isn’t just good for a service academy - they’re just good, period.

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The Big 10 will play 20 conference basketball games beginning next year (2018-19).

A five-star guard has decommitted from Arizona in the wake of the FBI investigation into college basketball recruiting.

One mid-major coach left schools named so far in the investigation completely off his top-25 ballot.

Crazy home-court designs are all the rage now, and Central Florida is getting in on the action.

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So that Chiefs-Raiders game ended in pretty crazy fashion.

The Dodgers have qualified for their first World Series since 1988, and wouldn’t you know it, a lot has changed since then.

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