When the Kansas football team entered its final game of 2024 at 5-6, seeking one more win to secure bowl eligibility, it was riding high, having just beaten three consecutive ranked opponents for an improbable winning streak.

Rocco Becht threw for 241 yards and three touchdowns, with two scores and 73 yards going to Brett Eskildsen, and Iowa State defeated Kansas 38-14 on Saturday.

Iowa State went from 5-0 to 5-4 this season seemingly in the blink of an eye, and banged-up but unbowed quarterback Rocco Becht stood tall amid that maelstrom as his team's fortunes rose and fell.

The Kansas football team had a hard enough time stopping Iowa State on downs one through three, but when the Cyclones got to fourth down, the Jayhawks’ defense reached a new level of porousness. KU allowed a fourth-down conversion on ISU’s game-opening touchdown drive,

I do think we have a chance to be a lot better when (Darryn Peterson) comes back than what we would have been if he wasn’t out,” Self tells The Star.

Kansas plays the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles after S'Mya Nichols scored 24 points in Kansas' 63-57 win against the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

Whenever Boozer had the upper hand on Tiller, another freshman, the Jayhawks would trap the post, forcing Boozer to either pick the ball up or pass it out to a teammate. He ended up with 18 points, about half of his production from the game before, but it wasn’t an efficient night. He shot 7-for-17 and committed two turnovers.

The 3-seeded Jayhawks beat the 6-seeded Cardinals in front of a KU-friendly crowd at Koskinen Field in Durham, North Carolina thanks to a trio of goals from freshman forward Faith Johnston, sophomore midfielder Jillian Gregorski, and senior forward Lexi Watts.