Kansas Football is finally back. Within a few hours, the Jayhawks will be back on the field taking on Fresno State from the Mountain West Conference. This is the last time for a number of national outlets to ship in their final predictions for teams, and Kansas has been awarded a slightly more worrying seasonal outlook on Bill Connelly's 'How to get the most enjoyment from the 2025 college football season' article with the Jayhawks being placed under the "The Pepto-Bismol All-Stars" tag.
Here is what Connelly prefaced Kansas's selection with.
"Certain teams will be playing in an inordinate number of close games. According to my final preseason SP+ projections, there are a whopping 25 teams with at least eight games projected to finish within one score (approximately 7.5 points), including eight schools with nine such games. (Perhaps not surprisingly, four of these teams are from the Big 12.) You will be watching the fourth quarter of many of their games."
Now, Kansas is no stranger to close games, and Kansas fans we will spare you the repeated explanation of How the Jayhawks lost so many one-score games last season. But it is worth noting that Lance Leipold's team finished last season with five losses by one touchdown or less last Fall.
Who could these challenging opponents be?
Well with only 12 games on the schedule it will be pretty hard to miss, but we are going to narrow down the six we think will be the closest.
We expect Fresno State and Wagner to be relatively easy wins for Kansas, Missouri is set to be the first matchup we mark as a close affair. We are going to give Kansas the benefit of the doubt over games against Cincinnati and UCF, but not before West Virginia comes to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
Our final Pepto-Bismol worthy games are against No. 23 Texas Tech, No. 17 Kansas State, No. 22 Iowa State and lastly the Jayhawks' final game of the regular season against the Utah Utes.