Kansas will look to get back on the winning track and earn its first victory in Big 12 Conference play when it hosts Houston on Saturday afternoon in a league clash at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.The Jayhawks (1-5, 0-3 Big 12) come in following an open week after dropping five straight outings. Kansas’ most recent game was a 35-31 defeat at Arizona State in which the Jayhawks surrendered the deciding touchdown pass with 16 seconds remaining. Jalon Daniels passed for 260 yards and two scores in the loss.The defeat marked the fourth time in the skid that the Jayhawks lost by six points or fewer. Kansas has not won since beating FCS opponent Lindenwood on Aug. 29.The Jayhawks have been hit with a slew of injuries, especially on the defensive side, and the open week didn’t get their players as healthy as coach Lance Leipold would have liked.”We’ve still got a lot of guys who are questionable,” Leipold said. “(We are) working through it, but we’ll have to see where (the week) takes us. A few guys are getting a little bit better.”Kansas running back Devin Neal enters the Saturday game just 181 yards away from breaking the school’s all-time rushing record of 3,841 yards set by June Henley from 1993-96.Houston (2-4, 1-2 Big 12) heads north after an open week that came after a stunning 30-19 win at TCU on Oct. 4. Zeon Chriss threw for a touchdown and ran 97 yards for another score in his first career start while directing a Houston offense that amassed 361 total yards and held the ball for almost 37 minutes.
Ailing Kansas, opposing Houston, aims to end skid
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