Team: Kansas Jayhawks
League: NCAA Division I
Home Games: David Booth Memorial Stadium
Head Coach: Les Miles
Championships: Six conference championships
All-Time Greats: Ray Evans, George Mrkonic, Ollie Spencer, Bobby Douglass, David Jaynes
The Jayhawks team started as part of the intercollegiate football program for Kansas University in 1890. Its starting year makes it one of the oldest football teams for a college program in the nation's history of the sport. Kansas was one of the founders of the program that would eventually morph into the Big Eight Conference, now known as the
Big 12 Conference
. The program at Kansas saw 10 coaches in its first 14 seasons on the field. Once A. R. Kennedy took the position, he held it for seven seasons. Kennedy remains the winningest coach in the program's history to date. He led the team to its second undefeated season, and Kansas has yet to see another perfect one since then. The coaches for the team experienced rapid turnover after that, but the Jayhawks remain a staple of college football. Get your tickets to the team's next game at StubHub.
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The Kansas Jayhawks play their home games at the David Booth Memorial Stadium, otherwise known as Memorial Stadium Kansas. The stadium is at the center of seven war memorials on the campus, and it is dedicated to those students of the college who died in World War I. After alumnus David Booth pledged several million dollars to overhaul the stadium in 2017, the university's chancellor elected to rename the stadium in his honor. The stadium seats just over 50,000 fans.
The Kansas Jayhawks are part of the Big 12 Conference, and they were a founding team of the original association that grew into the Big 12. Although the conference has 10 full-member universities and several affiliates on the roster, it has kept the Big 12 name for the purposes of marketing and advertising. It has powerful name recognition, and many football analysts and enthusiasts believe it is one of the few conferences to produce college football playoff champion teams consistently.
Although the Jayhawks' current rivalry is dormant, the Jayhawks has a long-standing conference rivalry with the
Missouri Tigers
. This rivalry has been dormant since Missouri switched conferences in 2012. When the two teams were active opponents, fans called it the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi in terms of college football.
The team has a couple of historical rivalries of note. It competes against the
Kansas State Wildcats
for the prestigious Governor's Cup. The Jayhawks lead the all-time series, but the Wildcats have won more Governor's Cups overall. In addition, the Jayhawks' rivalry with Nebraska was the longest uninterrupted one in college football history until the latter departed for the
Big 10
in 2011.