Big 12 · Lance Leipold, year 6 (28-36) · Memorial Stadium · 47,000 · 31,452 avg in 2026
LastL 21–38 vs Missouri · Fri Sep 11 · Nik McMillan 52 rec yds, 1 TD
Nextvs Arizona State · Sat Sep 19 · 12 pm ET · Wembley Stadium · Arizona State by 5.5 · series 0-1 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
Lance Leipold's year 6 (2026): 1-1, behind Les Miles's 5-7 in the same spot.
Kansas fans can't agree.
\+1 for actually calling it the Border War
So they call the incomplete pass dead and don’t let it play out, don’t call the flag on Missouri starting shit, and now call a fumble ten years after the play
1Lance Leipold's fifth season at Kansas begins with Chase Jenkins (QB) arriving as the headline addition in a top-36 portal class, following a 5-7 season that underscored the program's long-standing football struggles.
What moved it — last 14 days
Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling
It wasn't even like they made a mistake in real time. They reviewed it and put 1 second back on the clock. The B10 should be ashamed.
The crowd’s loudest take by upvotes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.
Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.
Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.
~ our readKansas fans are down on the program, and they're pointing to real stats and results to back it up — more than most fanbases right now.
✓ counted We read 622 posts from Kansas fans this week.
Press Pulse
7 quotes collected this season
What the beat said, in their own words.
I’ve seen Jaden practice and I know what it’s looked like. It didn’t really look like that today. I’m sure North Carolina had something to do with that…we just didn’t give ourselves a chance
I literally came into the huddle, I said, ‘All right, guys, we got a third-and-one right here. We’re gonna try to be able to get them to jump offsides,’
Stanford has been a pioneer and an innovator not just in football but as a school in general
Five Lenses
What people are saying right now
Fanbase health · Kansas
Loud (109 weighted voices in the latest week) and middling on the field (5-7 last season, 1-1 so far).
2 of 3 signals · on-field reading uses last season until 4 games are in · 0–100, bands at 26 / 51 / 76
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Fan claims · every quote verified verbatim
This team can't compete for anything until they can learn how to win a close game, the amount of drops and the inability of our defense to get a stop on 3rd and 4th down is going to cost us several more games this season if they can't get it fixed
Based on 5 comments from 3 posters across 4 threads · Aug 30, 2025–Oct 25, 2025 · via CFB
Bro said ‘villains’ like Mizzou hasn’t spent the last 5 years getting bounced around the SEC like a ping pong ball
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Sep 12, 2026 · via CFB
To start every single referee that worked this game needs to be investigated. With that being said, this loss still falls heavily on the coaching staff and specifically on leipold.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Nov 9, 2025 · via CFB
Seen enough. Let Ballard get some reps and then Marshall later in the 2nd half
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Aug 30, 2025 · via CFB
Coach Z has always been good, but getting Coach Lubick back was so massive this offseason. Significant reason why our offense with Kotelnicki was so powerful.
Based on 1 comment from 1 poster across 1 thread · Aug 24, 2025 · via CFB
Such a great rivalry, I really hope they never cancel it
Now if our defense could actually tackle
Fanbase health · Kansas