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By Trevor Graff<\/strong><\/p>\n Kansas fans left Memorial Stadium after Saturday\u2019s matchup with the Rice Owls feeling a lot like the Jayhawk fans of old. The fans that spent the majority of their time breaking down losses and saying wait until next year.<\/p>\n Chris Boswell, the Owls\u2019 Lou Groza Award watch list kicker, blasted a 45-yard field goal through the uprights with two seconds remaining to seal the Jayhawk loss 25-24. The Jayhawks led all but the first ten minutes of the game before losing on Boswell\u2019s last second field goal.<\/p>\n \u201cClearly, my biggest disappointment is that we didn\u2019t finish,\u201d said head coach Charlie Weis. \u201cThe whole motto for this week was about finishing games, because I didn\u2019t think we finished last weeks game well either.”<\/p>\n The Jayhawks missed several opportunities to take a two-possession lead late in the game. The most notable of these misses came in the third quarter on a missed Ron Doherty 53-yard field goal attempt at the 5:26 mark in the third quarter. The kicking game continued to struggle after a missed 40-yard attempt by Doherty with 10:21 to play in the game.<\/p>\n The biggest play in the collapse may have come from Dayne Crist. With less than four minutes left Crist dropped back and gambled on a pass into double coverage. The Owls\u2019 corner Bryce Callahan picked the pass off to set up the game ending drive from their own 47-yard line.<\/p>\n In missing these opportunities KU continually put the defense on the field in poor field position and ultimately kept Rice in the game.<\/p>\n \u201cThe number one thing they have to understand is it\u2019s not okay to lose,\u201d Weis said. \u201cWhen things don\u2019t go well you have to accept accountability. Once we do that, we can turn the program in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n Weis said all three facets of the team had the opportunity to close the game but didn\u2019t do it. Weis blamed himself but expects the team to be accountable throughout the week.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom an offensive stand point, we didn\u2019t finish,\u201d said Kansas quarterback Dayne Crist. \u201cWe didn\u2019t make enough plays to win the game.\u00a0 At the end of the day, that\u2019s the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n The Jayhawk defense also had the opportunity to make big plays.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had the opportunity to end the game,\u201d defensive end Toben Opurum said. \u201cThe game\u2019s over if we make one play.\u201d<\/p>\n Crist said now the focus would shift to the TCU game Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to give it to Rice,\u201d Cornerback Greg Brown said. \u201cThey competed until the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Trevor Graff Kansas fans left Memorial Stadium after Saturday\u2019s matchup with the Rice Owls feeling a lot like the Jayhawk fans of old. The fans that spent the majority of their time breaking down losses and saying wait until next year. Chris Boswell, the Owls\u2019 Lou Groza Award watch list kicker, blasted a 45-yard field goal through the uprights with two seconds remaining to seal the Jayhawk loss 25-24. The Jayhawks led all but the first ten minutes of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[532,868,940,983,175],"class_list":["post-15905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlie-weis","tag-dayne-crist","tag-greg-brown","tag-ku-vs-rice","tag-toben-opurum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}