The more things change, the more they stay the same, right?
Right now, Kansas football fans are preparing for what will be a crucial year for head coach Lance Leipold and his transfer-loaded squad. But what comes after next year? Eventually, the 2026 season will come to a close, and several players and assistants will come and go from the program, and we will be exactly where we are right now. Slowly peeking to see how many days away we are until the start of a new KU football season (67 by the way).Â
So we decided to take a peek at some of Kansas’ future out-of-conference matchups that could serve as fun reprieves until the conference grind begins to churn.Â
Editor's note: While these games currently create a spectacle, these series often flip on a dime and at random moments as well, so as the months go on, unfortunately, don’t be surprised to see either of these two future series be removed.Â
Kansas takes on ACC foe in both 2029 and 2030
If you were to hear that the Kansas Jayhawks were set to take on the UVA Cavaliers, your mind would immediately jump to what would be an admittedly quite exciting matchup between rising star head coach Ryan Odom and one of the game’s best ever to do it in Bill Self.Â
However, this home-and-home series is set for the gridiron and was announced all the way back in 2019, 10 years before it's scheduled to kick off in Charlottesville, Va. The two sides have met surprisingly as recently as 1990 and 1991. In each of the first two regular-season matchups, the Cavaliers went home the victor, with a 59-10 win in 1990, and a much closer 31-19 finish the next season.Â
Kansas set to take odd trip to the Pacific Northwest
From 1955 until the conclusion of the 1977-78 season, you could oddly bank on the Jayhawks squaring off against the Washington State Cougars. You could also feel pretty confident when the two sides faced one another; the Jayhawks would come out on top. In the nine games between the two, Kansas currently holds a 7-2 record with scorelines getting as ugly as 32-0.
These two are scheduled to meet in the 2027 and 2028 seasons, in a home-and-home series that will see KU travel up to Martin Stadium, before playing hosts to the Cougars the following year.Â
One other series would catch any team’s attentionÂ
This future matchup is not technically scheduled back-to-back, so we hesitated to throw them in the official list, but how could you write an article like this and not include the fact that the Jayhawks are scheduled to take on the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in both 2028 and 2032?Â
It will not shock many to know that these two universities have only gone against one another once before; a 33-27 win in Honolulu ensued for the Jayhawks. KU will host the Mountain West side first in 2028 before making the trip an astounding three full seasons later.
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