Kansas football: 5 takeaways from the Jayhawks victory over Nevada

1. No matter how you spin it, the outcome of the game was a road win

There are a lot of fans complaining that Kansas played poorly against Nevada, which is true for the standards for Lance Leipold’s current team. But for the standards set for the program across the past decade, winning a road game against an FBS school is a positive, no matter how the victory came about.

We have to remember the product of football we have been watching for the past decade. The team didn’t win more than three games in the 2010s era. This program went from being the laughing stock of Power 5 football to receiving votes in the AP Poll a year into the new head coach’s tenure.

Games like this happen for every team. Oklahoma State just lost 33-7 to a team in the Sun Belt on Stillwater turf. We’ve seen several other bad home losses in the Big 12, such as Baylor to Texas State. Kansas is a talented team — we witnessed that when they played Illinois. We can chalk up this mediocre performance to the team looking past Nevada.

With a big game next week against BYU, they can’t harp on their mistakes from yesterday but rather correct them and improve next time out.