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Starting point is 00:00:00 Kansas has a chance to beat its biggest rival and prove it's one of the best teams in the Big 12 all in one. It's a big Saturday. We preview Kansas, Missouri, and the next edition of the Border Showdown at Border War. You are Locked on Jayhawks, your daily podcast on the Kansas Jayhawks. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. What's going on? Derek Johnson here. This is Locked on Jayhawks. Thanks for making it your first listen every day. And thank you to the everydayers for catching each and every episode of the show. We are free and available anywhere you get your podcast, including on our YouTube page where you can like and subscribe to the show. And on today's edition of LOJ, we're talking a little KU Missouri. What else we'll be talking about? Previewing the Border War Border Showdown, whatever you want to call it. It's KU's biggest rival and we're going to preview the game. Get to our cop storylines. News from the week. We'll get to our Missouri scouting. report. We'll get to our matchups of the game. And then coming on Friday's episode, we'll have our keys of the game, players to watch and plenty more. Today's episode of Locked on Jayhawks is

Starting point is 00:01:09 brought to you by Mazda. Just like there's more to every player, more dedication, more attention to detail. There's more to a Mazda vehicle. Stay tuned later in the episode for highlights in this week's moving the game forward. Mazda move and be moved. So Kansas takes on Missouri Saturday at 2.30 central time. It's obviously in Columbia. It's going to be a ruckus environment. It's going to be a very difficult place for Kansas to play. And it's funny because you know, you think back to the pre-Lance Lighthold days and Kansas could not win on the road. What was it? Like 48 or something straight losses to like power conference opponents on the road. I think it was 46 to anyone on the road before they won at Central Michigan when like Puka Williams and Company went off. And now Lance Leipold, it's just like, okay, they win at Texas, and then from then on, they're like winning a West Virginia. They're winning all these road games now to where it's like, oh, my gosh, this is possible, right? But I think the biggest storyline coming into this one has to just be the fact that, like, the game in itself is the storyline. The rivalry is the storyline, right?

Starting point is 00:02:13 I can talk about, oh, well, you know, Lance Leipold versus Eli Drinkwitz or Jalen Daniels or it's just the rivalry. Like, that is the biggest storyline that is happening here. It's the 120 first meeting all time between these two. to top 10 meetings of two schools ever in college football history. And it was even higher than that until they stopped playing with Missouri leaving for the SEC. This is the first meeting since Missouri left for the SEC, which the last meeting overall was 2011. Missouri's won three straight in the series overall. Kansas now has a chance to even up the series because Kansas is down one game.

Starting point is 00:02:46 Now, if you look at Missouri records, they'll claim they're up. Another game from that, we went over this earlier in the week. Thank you, every day. I already caught it. That 1960 game when Kansas beat number one, Missouri. Missouri. There was later a player that was ruled ineligible, and Missouri ended up counting it as a win for them. Kansas still counts it as a win for them, which is just perfect for rivalry lore in college football. But not only is this the first meeting since 2011, this is

Starting point is 00:03:10 the first meeting on campus since 2006, right? Those games were being played at Arrowhead, which had certain things that were cool about it. I think honestly, like, it kind of worked out for the 2007 meeting that it happened to be at Arrowhead, given the stakes of the game. But I think overall, like these games are meant to be on campus, right? That's the best environments for college sports. Now, what I find interesting here, beyond the, you know, the most important storyline, again, is the rivalry aspect. That is what college sports is built on.

Starting point is 00:03:38 You just want to beat your rival. You want to have the bragging rights for 365, right? I think beyond that, like we can talk about, you know, what does this mean for the Kansas season? I think from the Missouri side of things, if they win this game, it's just more important for them to win the game from the rivalry side. If they win the game, it doesn't, there's not going to be national conversations if Missouri wins the game about, you know, oh, does this mean Missouri is an SEC title contender? They still have a lot of fish to fry if they want to do that. But from the Kansas perspective, I mean, A, it would help the Big 12, certainly.

Starting point is 00:04:12 But if Kansas wins this game on the road against a Missouri team that is seen as a, you look at ESPNSP Plus, a top 20 team, you look at ESPNFPI, a top 25 team, if Kansas wins on the road against an SEC school, with a lot of talent, it's hard not to view that as like, okay, well, Kansas can beat anyone in the Big 12. And Kansas, you know, even if they're not the betting favorite, Kansas will certainly be one of the betting favorites if they win this game to win the Big 12, right? You see what they did in their first game against Fresno State. And then what Fresno State did after against a pretty good, again, I forget if it's Georgia State or Georgia Southern team. But regardless, you look at this game, this is an opportunity too for Kansas to show that, hey, we can win the Big 12th, right a win like this would go a long way toward i don't know having that kind of feeling i also find

Starting point is 00:04:58 this interesting from the k u game notes under lance light hold kansas has recorded five wins against top 25 opponents um light hold matches bud more from 1975 to 1978 for the most wins against top 25 opponents over their k u careers from 2010 to 2021 kansas was o and 44 against top 25 opponents with its last win coming against number 15 Georgia tech that was uh the Turner Gill, September 11th of 2010. So, again, Lightbold matching Bud Moore for the most wins against top 25 opponents in their career. That means Kansas is an opportunity here.

Starting point is 00:05:34 You know, to surpass that this season with Lance Lightbold. You'll get some of the news of this game coming into the week. It seems like the injury bug is upon us and certainly is a storyline coming to this one. From the Missouri side of things, we had the conversation earlier this week. And if you missed it, catch our loss. on crossover where we talked to the Missouri side of things and got a little insight on their side of things, their kicker is out for the year. And he had some long field goals against a good kicker. So if this is going to end up being a close game, certainly that could

Starting point is 00:06:06 have an impact there. You think of it having an impact on a couple ways. And this is what was brought up. Like, does it make Missouri go for it and be more aggressive on fourth down? And if you're rolling the ice, that could go either way in a specific game, right? That could be bad for KU. That could be good for KU if they make the stops. It just depends how it would go. Or do we see them take the field goals anyway? And then it, you know, causes a shakier operation where it causes a miss here or there. They added kind of the last minute, like transfer to the kicker position.

Starting point is 00:06:33 So we'll see how that goes for the Missouri side. But that's kind of their biggest injury. It's a little bit more, I don't know, who knows? At the end of the day, like one kick could be the difference in a game. So that could be a super impactful thing. But from the Kansas perspective, you would think that their injuries could end up being a little bit more problematic. It just depends. because you look at Missouri under Elijah Drinkwitz,

Starting point is 00:06:54 they've consistently been a very strong rushing team. And that seems to be no different this year. You have Bo Pribula, who's a good rushing quarterback. Amon Hardy had, I guess, you know, through his first season last year, plus one game this year has over 1,400 career rushing yards. Really good running back for them. They're going to have a strong running game. And you immediately think of the front seven.

Starting point is 00:07:15 The defense line, the linebackers has been the guys who are going to stop that. Well, Kansas linebacking corps has been hit hard by the injury. bug. You look at Joseph Sip who got injured in fall camp. He's yet to appear in a game so far this season. He was a former All-Mac linebacker. It doesn't really seem like he's going to be back for this game for KU. You look at Bengali Kamara, who looked good in the first game of the season against Fresno State and then suffered a non-contact injury leading up to the second game of the season missed that game. Now, certainly when you heard non-contact injury, that makes the alarm bells go off because a lot of times when that happens, it ends up being like very lengthy

Starting point is 00:07:50 the injuries. Sounds like KU and Bengali Kamara may be a little fortunate there, and then it might just be a few weeks. So maybe you're looking at that one and saying, okay, maybe he'll miss the Missouri game, maybe he'll miss the by week, and then hopefully he's back for the West Virginia game or, you know, maybe he's back later in the season, but it sounds like he could be coming back based on some of those reports that came out. We mentioned the on 3-1 earlier this week unlocked on Jayhawks. But point being, even if he is back, he's not back for this game. At least that would be my assumption based on kind of what's happened there. So two of your linebackers who, you know, at one point early in fall camp, those were your two projected starting linebackers.

Starting point is 00:08:24 Now, maybe Trey Lathen would have beat Joseph Sip out regardless, but point being like those are two talented players of a linebacker unit that we talked a lot about in the offseason that seemed like it was much improved from a unit that has at times been a problem for KU in the past. And now you get to a point where it's like, okay, well, you have Trey Lathen, you're going to be counting on him a lot. And I think Trey Lathen looked really good through the first two games of the season for KU. This is another animal with Missouri, but also, you know it makes it even tougher when okay now you're going to be playing alongside some of these other guys can you not just be a good player can you be a good leader and help them along on the

Starting point is 00:09:01 field john john kamara who you would love to get a lot of reps in that wagner game to get even more ready for this game ends up starting that wagner game but it gets out in the first quarter with the targeting call he will be fully available for this missouri game but and from an athletic standpoint, like he's going to be as good athletically as anybody Missouri has on the field, even though he wasn't a four-star recruit. Like, athletically, he should have been a four- or five-star recruit with how much of a freak athlete that he is. But how green are you, how, you know, at the experience level, what does that matter? What if Logan Brantley gets on the field? What if Ezra Vigraal, a former walk-on gets on the field? Does that end up being problematic for KU? So some of these

Starting point is 00:09:40 things are going to be very interesting, especially in this matchup with the KU linebacker core, how much does it cost them, or can they figure out a way to make it work? Can Trey Lathen and some of those guys have monster games regardless? I think of Iowa State last year who made it to the Big 12th title game, and they were on like third and fourth string linebackers. So it is doable, but it's going to make it a little more difficult again, Missouri. Let's get into that Missouri scouting port next. This is Locked on Jayhawks.

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Starting point is 00:12:31 Okay, so you look at Missouri there, 1 and 0 on the season, beat up Central Arkansas 61 to 6. not a great FCS team. Obviously, Wagner wasn't either from the Kansas perspective, but point being, I don't know how much we learned about Missouri in their first game, but we didn't really learn anything too negative for them, and that's a good place to be, right? If you're going to play that game, you might as well not really show much weakness. But this has been a really successful program in the last couple of years. They were kind of hovering around more of a 500 program the first couple years for drink quits in Missouri, but then the last two years, they've had their breakouts. 10 and 3 last season, 11 and 2 the year before with that

Starting point is 00:13:04 New Year's 6th bowl victory over Ohio State, and Drinkwitz is now in his sixth season for Missouri after coming over from Appalachian State, where he had a successful season there. You look at the rankings for this team. They're 16th on ESPNSP and SP Plus, which gives them the number 27 offense and the number 11 defense. Only gives them number 95 on special teams, which also without a kicker, that could be interesting. ESP and FPI, they're 19th. So by those two places, top 20 in the country. What's interesting, if you look at Phil Steele and pick six previews, picks them as a bottom half team in the SEC this year coming into the season.

Starting point is 00:13:42 But the, I don't know, the irony, the crazy part of that is the fact that even if you're picked as a bottom half team in the SEC, that can be like a top 20 team in the country. That can be like a top 25 team in the country. and points, you know, proofs in the pudding, like if Missouri's 16th and 19th in some of these metric sites, even if that has them a little higher in the SEC, you still have schools like LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, like you go on and on, you can finish eighth in the SEC and be the 18th best team in the country. So I don't look at that as much, but, you know, you do look at it and some places are a little

Starting point is 00:14:24 lower on them just from a standpoint of, okay, last year, even though they won 10 games, it was a bit of it, like, they didn't have a lot of the harder teams in the SEC, and credit to them for still, you know, taking advantage in winning 10 games, but they went six and one in one score games and they were plus 11 in turnovers. And a lot of times those two things can kind of ebb and flow from year to year, right? And so if those, maybe they won't, but if both of those things do flow a little bit this year and they end up with more of an even turnover rate, or they end up more 500 in one score games, then that's how the record kind of goes down for Missouri. And I think the hope would be for this game that like, maybe this will be one of those

Starting point is 00:14:59 swing games where it is a reversion to the mean. And Missouri's minus two in turnover. and loses a one score game. Who knows? They also have low returning starters on the offensive end of the ball. You look at it in some of the places that rank the position groups compared to the conference. The running back room, receiver unit, defensive line, and parts of the O line are kind of seen as the team's biggest strengths, although there are a lot of questions on the offensive line room, the proven experience at quarterback in power games, and then some

Starting point is 00:15:26 defensive back questions. But overall, it's a very talented team. And specifically, you know, with that offensive line. line. It's an interesting unit because they bring back. It's kind of similar to Kansas in a way and that like, okay, Kansas has Bryce Foster and Kobe Baines. And then it's like you have talented Calvin Clements, but you're bringing on some new players. Well, they have a centerback and Connor Tolson, who's been really good. Left guard, Caden Green was really good for them. A guard was being seen as like an all conference, you know, guard in the preseason, but he moved

Starting point is 00:15:53 to left tackle. And then they added three transfer portal power four linemen who had a combined 20 starts. So just kind of interesting how it meshes together and a position change. with Caden Green, but overall, I mentioned their talent level. If you look at their five-year recruiting rank average, it's 19th in the country. And their two-year transfer portal average rank is sixth. So over the last five years, basically the last five high school classes that have built up the team, they've on average been a top 20 high school recruiting class and over the last two transfer portal classes, which that's typically going to be older players, they're averaging out to be a top 10 class. So like point being, you can understand what it means when you hear

Starting point is 00:16:32 this team is talented. I don't know if this is going to be the best team KU is going to face this year. Like I tend to think that'll be, I don't know, maybe a Utah. We'll see what like the talent comes together with Texas Tech. Certainly that'll be an interesting, you know, team for for Texas tech this year. I'm trying to think of maybe Iowa State or something. Like it could be one of those teams. But if we're just talking from pure talent, talent isn't everything, but just from pure talent and it's a tough and road environment, you can see why this will be a very difficult game for KU. You'll give the quarterback position for Missouri. Sam Cook was the original starter. He got hurt on the first drive. So Bo Pribula came in and he was actually the guy that many predicted to be the starter coming in as a high profile transfer portal edition from Penn State where he ends up coming in against Central Arkansas and looks like he would have been the starter.

Starting point is 00:17:18 23 of 28, 28, 283 yards, two touchdowns, no picks, 10 carries, 65 yards, two more scores, super accurate throwing downfield in that first game at least, which probably more guys are open. so that's helpful, but 9 of 11 for 184 yards on passing 10 or more yards downfield, so that'll be interesting against KU. He is a 6'2 senior, a lot of success coming in as a running quarterback in sets for Penn State with Andy Coddlenicki, but actually it's solid passing sets in limited time last year, too. I think he's a good play. I think D.K. McDonald this week in press conference called him, like, one of the best college quarterbacks he's faced, which that felt a little extreme for a guy who didn't win the job

Starting point is 00:17:57 straight up coming out, but like, she certainly looked really good. in that first week of the season. And the big question there is just like, okay, you know, he's done it in small sample sizes and in certain packages. What is he going to, because he's only had one game in his career against a power four opponent where he's thrown double-digit passes. Now, albeit he was 11 of 13, went for 98 yards and rushed for more and a 15-point win against Wisconsin.

Starting point is 00:18:21 But yeah, that'll kind of be the question here. Key stats to the game for Missouri, five happy stats, the good stats for him. They finished 20, 24, 17th, and yards allowed. per game. Really good defense and brought a lot back. They finished fifth in 2024 in third down conversion rate against at just 30%. So again, you see the defense really able to get you off the field on third downs. Missouri ranked top 35 nationally in pass and run blocking or ranks right now on pro football focus. Again, though, albeit against Central Arkansas to take it with a grain of salt. They currently ranked fourth

Starting point is 00:18:54 in coverage grade right now. So really good coverage week one. Again, asterisk of Central Arkansas, but still. They were also 21st nationally in place per game last year on offense. I don't think they're like a super heavy tempo team, but certainly they're going to, you know, run some more plays than not. And I'm sure they'll mix in some tempo here and there. And that's been a problem for the KU defense in years past. We'll see how they handle it if they do bring it out at any point this year. Five sad stats for Missouri.

Starting point is 00:19:20 They rank 93rd in tackling grade after week once and not a great tackling game in week one for Missouri, according to pro football focus. They finished 81st in offensive line run push last year and only 66th in sack rate allowed. And in week one, they were outside the top 50 in both, 56th, the no line run push, 57th in sack rate allowed. So again, there could be some questions of the offensive line. I don't think it's a bad offensive line, but maybe it's just an average offensive line. And can Kansas take advantage of that? They also finished just outside the top 50 last year, an EPA per game, total EPA and success rate against the pass as a defense. So maybe there's going to be some opportunity. They do have some portal

Starting point is 00:20:00 additions to the secondary, but maybe some opportunity throwing the ball on this defense if you're KU. Overall, they average just 290 yards per game in their three losses last year. So like when it was bad, it was ugly. They got blown out in two of those three losses, albeit to really good opponents. But overall, they also gave up four yards per carry, which doesn't sound like a lot in a college game. But given it was central Arkansas, they had 154 total rushing yards. that actually puts Missouri right now in the bottom 50 of the country in terms of, you know, total rushing yards allowed and rushing yards per carry allowed. And again, it came versus central Arkansas. So you could argue that in the same way that some of the stats look good because you played them, if there's a stat that looked average or below average, what does that mean for some better opponents?

Starting point is 00:20:44 And one area I'm specifically looking at here is Missouri gave up 12 carries for 79 yards. that's 6.6 yards per carry between running through the so if we take to the right of the center all the way to the right of the right tackle but left of the tight end between that area they average 6.6 yards per carry and this season which would be foster baines cruise or gorsica for k u basically running to that side k u's averaging 6.6 yards per carry there too so we'll see if that gets taken advantage of in any way in this game but let's talk more about the matchups of the game next this is locked on jhawks And today's episode of the show is brought to you by DoorDash.

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Starting point is 00:21:46 Cam Pickett was a little banged up. Still played, but you know, you wanted that explosive player, right? and you think about the play to start the second half. Kansas is winning comfortably, but you're still looking to put the game away, and you're looking to get to a big enough lead that your backups can get valuable reps. Your young players can get valuable reps.

Starting point is 00:22:02 Well, you hit the deep ball from Jalen Daniels to Emmanuel Henderson who gets open, makes the catch, 62-yard touchdown. Again, ends up with over 100 yards this evening. He came through, and, you know, if you've been watching week after week, I don't think this is going to be a fluke for him. He started the season hot versus President State

Starting point is 00:22:18 on the first, like, two drives, had, I think, three catches. I don't know if he had another catch from then, but I think he's going to have a big game or big opportunity to against Missouri. And so just like Emmanuel Henderson delivered for the Jayhawks, DoorDash delivers your Saturdays. With DoorDash streaks, you save every Saturday for your order. Stack it up all season.

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Starting point is 00:23:06 and they put them together and you get a consensus big board out of it, right? I don't know if it's the most accurate, more than one person or another, but at least it, you know, gives you something. Missouri has two guys in the top 70 for the 2026 NFL draft. they also have six players in the top 315 which puts you at least like in draftable range and of those six players five of the six are offensive or defensive linemen and the only one that's not is a tight end who is also going to play on the line scrimmage at times right so that is where the bread is buttered so to speak so for the k u defense this means big games from that

Starting point is 00:23:40 defensive tackle group that we lauded all off season it means big games from justice fincly and alex bray who have played in some big games at texas and in illinois it means dean miller knowing why he's all big 12 second team. For the KU offense, it means, you know, Bryce Foster, Kobe Baines, Kelvin Clements, come into play. It means whoever you're playing between Amir Herring, Tabaki, Tuico, Levatu, at Guard

Starting point is 00:24:00 and Nolan Gorska and Rique Cruz at tackle, it means you've got to be on your A game because if you're not, you're not going to be running much, they're going to run all over you, Jaylon Daniels is going to be picking it and you're not going to get pressure on Bo Pribula. So that is where this game is going to be won in the trenches. Second down

Starting point is 00:24:16 quarterback running game. This goes for both sides as well. What is Kansas going to get out of Jalen Daniels here? Only three carries against Wagner, which I think is smart, right? You don't want to use those bullets, so to speak, on a game like that. We saw him run a little bit more against Fresno State, probably took a little too many hits from what you're liking would be. In this game, though, it's kind of one of those throw it out the window games. Like, can you keep him healthy doing so while also using the run game a little bit more to your advantage? Now, on the flip side, Pribula has over 600 career rushing yards, six yards per carry and 12 touchdowns.

Starting point is 00:24:51 It's 65 yards in week one, 31-yard run was his long in that first week of the season. And you look at last year, like Kansas gave up 124 to Sluca, 87 to Garrett Green, 77 to Sam Levitt, 67 to Avery Johnson. The leading rusher for the opponent was the quarterback four times out of the 12 games against KU last year, and in total Kansas gave up 466 rushing yards to quarterbacks. And keep in mind, that accounts for the lost yards on set. Kansas actually had 161 sackyards last year. So that basically means if you take that out, Kansas gave up over 600 rushing yards

Starting point is 00:25:25 to the quarterbacks last year. That's basically over 50 per game. That is a good amount, but it's a new defense coordinator in there in D.K. McDonald. What does that look like? How helpful is that for KU in defending the quarterback run? Because you got a good one you're going up against in Bo Privia this week. Third down is the third down chess match.

Starting point is 00:25:43 Missouri has been really solid defensively on third downs. We mentioned that at the outset, the last year they were, one of the better teams in the country, getting off the field on third down. Kansas actually low key, even despite the five and seven season, was one of the best third down offenses in the country last year, though. And so that's going to be kind of that, that, you know, a movable force versus unstoppable object type of matchup between the two that should be a lot of fun. Now, on the flip side, you have Missouri who's facing a younger, not a younger, but not as experienced starting quarterback in Bo Pribula. He can pick up that third down on that key scramble, so that goes

Starting point is 00:26:18 back in line with you know stopping the quarterback run there but also in general you have a new DC he's already shown some flashes in DK McDonald of some new unique fun stuff I think that's going to be an intriguing matchup and this is where we're really going to see for the first time what does that full playbook look like for DK McDonald and how creative and exotic is it going to get on third down especially against like I said yeah a quarterback who's been very good and is older but he hasn't started a lot of power for football games fourth down is finish can Kansas was outscored 91 to 69 in the fourth quarter last year. They were one in five and one score games.

Starting point is 00:26:54 These are numbers, well, at least the one in five is one that everybody remembers, right? Missouri outscored their opponents 104 to 55 in the fourth quarter. They were six and one in one score games. Now, we did see a game last year where I think coming into the game, Kansas was 0 in five in one score games. And at the time, BYU was five and oh in one score games and Kansas won the games. Sometimes weird things happen and maybe that's where that reversion comes in. And that's the hope for Kansas that if it is a close game, the reversion comes in. But KU talked all offseason about finishing and closing things out. Well, if Vegas is projecting

Starting point is 00:27:25 this as a one-score game, that means you're going to have the opportunity to do just that if that's the case in the fourth quarter. And if you want to pull off the win on the road against a talented opponent in a rivalry game, chances are, yeah, it's going to come down to the fourth quarter plays and do you make those plays at the end and make the clutch plays and the close plays? That's what's going to determine this at the very end. So is it going to be different than last year? Are they going to have the opportunity to do so you got to finish if you want to win this football game all right that'll do it for this episode of locked on jahawks you can find our show anywhere you get podcast including on our youtube page where you can like and subscribe to the show

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