Most coaches will inform their groups one thing alongside the traces of, “Do not let one opponent beat you twice,” which means the gamers ought to be taught from the errors in a loss however not dwell on them to the purpose the place they don’t seem to be targeted on the following opponent.
Each Kansas and UCF have an opportunity to place that into impact on Saturday because the Jayhawks journey to Orlando.
Kansas (3-2, 1-1 Massive 12) let a late lead slip away towards Cincinnati final week, watching the visiting Bearcats rating with 29 seconds left to emerge with a 37-34 victory. What made it worse was that the Jayhawks grabbed the lead with 1:45 left within the fourth quarter.
“Misalignments and missed assignments, actually from the outset,” coach Lance Leipold mentioned Monday in regards to the Jayhawks’ defensive shortcomings towards Cincinnati. “We have to get higher. I believe we acquired tentative and acquired smooth in some areas. All of us should personal that, from the pinnacle coach on down.
“(UCF coach) Scott Frost has a superb offensive thoughts. He is had some profitable offenses at UCF previously. It will likely be an enormous problem.”
The Jayhawks shall be attempting to construct on one other excellent effort from quarterback Jalon Daniels, who went 19 of 28 for 445 yards and 4 touchdowns vs. the Bearcats.
Kansas has 5 receivers with at the least 10 catches apiece this season, whereas working backs Leshon Williams (245 dashing yards) and Daniel Hishaw Jr. (178 dashing yards) are sharing the bottom sport with Daniels (214 dashing yards).
“We felt we had the potential to be explosive,” Leipold mentioned, “however the factor I am most happy with is the quantity of men who’ve been contributing.”
UCF (3-1, 0-1) took its first lack of the season on the street final week at Kansas State, falling 34-20.
“We’ve got numerous room to get higher,” Frost mentioned Monday. “And now we have to maintain doing it, as a result of the video games are going to get tougher.
“We’ve got a crew that may play, hopefully, with anybody on our schedule, however now we have to execute nicely. We have to have a great week of observe to make that occur.”
UCF leads the Massive 12 in cross protection (129.8 yards per sport allowed) and is ranked within the higher half of the convention in scoring protection and whole protection. Kansas is within the backside half in all main defensive classes.
Each the Jayhawks and the Knights fee among the many high half of the Massive 12 in scoring offense, whole offense, passing offense and dashing offense.
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