Big 12 Conference and Kansas State officials were notified Sunday that the Wildcats’ football game this Saturday, Nov. 8, at No. 7 TCU will kick off at 6:30 p.m., and be televised to a national audience on FOX.

The game was originally placed on the six-day wait list with Baylor at Oklahoma, and that game will be played at 11 a.m. on FOX Sports 1. Other Big 12 games this weekend are West Virginia at Texas at 2:30 p.m., on FOX Sports 1, and Iowa State at Kansas at 2:30  p.m., on FSN.

Kansas State, which checked in at No. 9 in the inaugural College Football Playoff Top 25 on Tuesday, will be playing in a top-10 matchup for the first time since the seventh-ranked Wildcats squared off against No.5 Oregon in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Alex Smith threw for 199 yards and two touchdowns, Jamaal Charles ran for another score and the Kansas City Chiefs won 24-10 on Sunday, sending the New York Jets to their eighth straight loss.

Tight ends Travis Kelce and Anthony Fasano each caught touchdown passes, and the Chiefs (5-3) won their third straight and fifth in six games on the same day former running back Priest Holmes was inducted into their ring of honor.

Making his first start with the Jets (1-8), Michael Vick was 21 of 27 for 196 yards and a touchdown. He briefly left in the fourth quarter after taking a massive hit from the Chiefs’ Josh Mauga and walking unsteadily off the field, but eventually returned later in the quarter.

The Oklahoma State Cowboys jumped out to a 7-0 lead over Kansas State on their first possession Saturday night in Manhattan, but then the Wildcats reeled off 45 unanswered points and went on to win 48-14 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

The Cowboys capped off their opening possession with a 2-yard scoring run by Tyreek Hill. But on the ensuing kickoff Morgan Burns returned it 86 yards, and with 11:36 to play in the first quarter the game was tied at 7-7. From there Kansas State got two touchdown runs from Charles Jones, touchdown passes from Jake Waters to Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton, a 1-yard scoring run by backup quarterback Joe Hubener, and two field goals by Matt McCrane.

Wildcat coach Bill Snyder said Kansas State had to make some adjustments after the early Cowboy touchdown. He noted the Wildcats got acclimated to somewhat different personnel groupings than Oklahoma State had a lot of  earlier.  “They played with four wide receivers a good portion of the time. That hasn’t been their number one look. So it took some adjustments, some bench adjustments, and some recognition I think on our part. We let a few things get away from us.” Snyder added the Wildcats came back later and played a bit better.

Kansas State wide receiver Tyler Lockett caught six passes for 94 yards, and in the process surpassed Jordy Nelson to become the second leading receiver in yardage in K-State history. He trails only his father, Kevin Lockett.   Lockett caught one touchdown pass, and that ties him for second in school history in touchdown catches with 23. He is tied with Quincy Morgan with both of them trailing Kevin Lockett.

The attendance of 53,746, was the second highest in the history of the stadium.

 

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy tends to stick to himself at coaching conventions and meetings. He isn’t someone who tends to spend much time schmoozing with others in his profession. The same goes for Kansas State’s Bill Snyder. Snyder has No. 11 Kansas State off to a 6-1 start, and a 4-0 mark in the Big 12, the lone unbeaten team left in conference play. The Cowboys, meanwhile, have dropped two straight regular-season games for the first time since the 2012 season.

The Junction City Blue Jays will host Wichita West in the first round of the Class 6A football playoffs Friday night at Al Simpler Stadium.

Other first-round games in Class 6A find:

–Wichita Northwest at Lawrence Free State

–Topeka High at Hutchinson

–Wichita East visiting Derby

–Shawnee Mission North at Olathe North

–Shawnee Mission South at Overland Park – Blue Valley

–Olathe South at Shawnee Mission West

–Lawrence at Shawnee Mission East

The Junction City Blue Jay boys cross country team finished tenth in the Class 6A state meet competition Friday at Rim Rock Farm north of Lawrence. Coach Rebecca Steiger said Stephen Deveau earned a medal with a 16th place finish in 16:41.50.

Blue Valley won the boys team title with the low score of 53 points. Junction City finished with a score of 190.

In the girls race  Bri Pace of Junction City  finished 46th in the individual competition with a time of 16:26.80.

The Chapman Fighting Irish football team went to Smoky Valley Friday night with a Class 4A Division II  postseason playoff berth on the line for the winner of the ballgame.

Smoky Valley came out on top 20-14.

The Junction City Blue Jays put 50 points on the board in the first, and then went on to defeat the Wichita North Redskins 50-6 in the final regular season game for the two teams.

Playing in Wichita, Junction City scored in the first half on three touchdown runs by Jovon Baldwin, on a 60-yard punt return by Raye Wilson, and an interception return for a TD by Raye Wilson. The Blue Jays also got a 35 yard field goal by Wayne Shirley, a touchdown pass play from Ryan Henington to Xavier DeGuzman, and a touchdown run by Downey Wood.

With the Blue Jays substituting liberally in the second half the Redskins were able to put one touchdown on the board early in the fourth quarter.

Wichita North finished the season 1-8, while the Blue Jays are 7-2 and Class 6A District Six champions. Junction City will now prepare to host a Class 6A Regional postseason playoff game against Wichita West next Friday night at Al Simpler Stadium.

Wichita West finished the regular season with a 2-7 record.

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Andale 69, Haven 13
Andover 28, Emporia 9
Andover Central 52, El Dorado 14
Augusta 47, Independence 13
Baldwin 40, Eudora 21
Basehor-Linwood 28, Tonganoxie 7
Bonner Springs 13, St. James Academy 0
Buhler 28, Abilene 14
Burlington 45, Anderson County 7
BV West 56, Blue Valley Southwest 24
Chanute 49, Labette County 13
Clearwater 24, Wichita Trinity 21
Colby 55, Goodland 18
Columbus 50, Parsons 6
Concordia 37, Clay Center 6
Derby 45, Wichita West 13
Fort Scott 23, Paola 22
Frontenac 55, Baxter Springs 6
Galena 43, Riverton 37
Garden City 32, Dodge City 14
Girard 29, Iola 14
Goddard-Eisenhower 34, Goddard 28
Heartland Christian 56, Cair Paravel 6
Holcomb 55, Hugoton 6
Holton 51, Royal Valley 6
Hutchinson 35, Wichita Northwest 28
Jefferson West 41, Perry-Lecompton 27
Junction City 50, Wichita North 6
KC Piper 52, Atchison 8
KC Wyandotte 44, KC Harmon 6
LaCrosse 27, Oakley 21
Lawrence 66, Olathe East 28
Lawrence Free State 53, Topeka 37
Leavenworth 63, Lansing 0
Liberal 20, Arkansas City 0
Maize South 28, Maize 27
Manhattan 45, Washburn Rural 23
McPherson 42, Hays 35
Meade 62, Sublette 0
Mill Valley 59, KC Turner 28
OKC Patriots, Okla. 44, Word of Life 14
Olathe North 20, Olathe Northwest 0
Olathe South 49, Gardner-Edgerton 22
Olpe 59, Yates Center 8
Onaga 45, Maranatha Academy 6
Ottawa 27, DeSoto 22
Pittsburg 31, St. Thomas Aquinas 21
Plainville 34, Ellis 12
Pleasant Ridge 30, Atchison County 13
Prairie View 51, KC Bishop Ward 12
Pratt 21, Larned 19
Rose Hill 28, Mulvane 22
Salina Central 56, Newton 7
Salina South 35, Great Bend 21
Santa Fe Trail 69, Osawatomie 36
Satanta 70, Deerfield 15
Scott City 49, Cimarron 0
Shawnee Heights 28, Topeka Seaman 20
SM East 62, SM North 12
SM South 27, SM Northwest 20
SM West 24, BV North 21
Smoky Valley 20, Chapman 14
Spring Hill 29, Louisburg 6
St. Francis 52, Logan 0
Sunrise Christian 48, Bishop Seabury Academy 0
Syracuse 54, Wichita County 14
Topeka Hayden 42, Circle 14
Topeka West 48, Highland Park 8
Troy 47, Immaculata 15
Ulysses 19, Wellington 0
Valley Falls 52, Wabaunsee 8
Valley Heights 48, Jackson Heights 14
Wamego 63, Nickerson 10
Wichita Bishop Carroll 48, Valley Center 0
Wichita Campus 58, Wichita South 56
Wichita Collegiate 58, Douglass 0
Winfield 42, Coffeyville 34

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Shooting guard Conner Frankamp will not begin his sophomore season with

the Kansas men’s basketball team. Friday morning, head coach Bill Self announced Frankamp’s decision to leave the University of Kansas.

“I met with Conner and his father (Martin Frankamp) Wednesday to discuss his situation and opportunity this season at Kansas,” Self said. “On Thursday he informed me he was going to transfer at the end of this fall semester. From this point forward he is no longer part of this team and will not participate this semester so he can transfer after Christmas and have two-and-a-half years remaining when he becomes eligible after sitting out one full academic year.”

The all-time scoring leader in the Wichita City League from Wichita North High School, Frankamp came in and played in 27 games as a freshman in 2013-14. He was a key factor in the Jayhawks’ 2014 NCAA Tournament as he averaged 11.0 points per game and went 7-for-14 from three-point range. By the end of his rookie season, Frankamp was averaging 8.3 minutes a game and shooting over 31 percent from behind the arc.

“I’ve been thinking about this for a while now,” Frankamp said. “I love KU and I love the Jayhawks. I feel like I’ve improved quite a bit since I’ve been here. I love my teammates but I just don’t feel like it’s the right fit for me. We have many good guards and so many big-time players. I want to be at a place where I could play a bigger role.”

Frankamp progressed through the year, recording his best game of his career in the last game of the 2013-14 season when he scored a career-high 12 points on 4-of-7 threes vs. Stanford (3/23). In KU’s first game of the NCAA Tournament, he tallied 10 points against Eastern Kentucky (3/21). In conference play, Frankamp’s best outing was a 2-for-3 effort from three-point range at Kansas State (2/10).

“This was disappointing news to us. Conner is a fine young man, a very good basketball player and certainly part of what we had envisioned not only our future but also as an impact guy for this upcoming season,” Self said. “We still have six other very good perimeter players. We’re looking forward to all six of those guys contributing in a big way and meaningful minutes throughout the course of the year. Conner will finish this semester academically and will continue to get academic support from us. We wish him the best in his decision making of his new school and in his future basketball endeavors.”

“Coach Self has been a great coach to me, I’ve learned so much under him,” Frankamp said. “He’s not only a great coach but has been a great mentor for me. I can talk to him about almost anything.

“The Kansas fans are amazing, probably the best in the country,” Frankamp added. “I want to wish my teammates good luck. They are like family to me and I want to see them succeed. I’ll still be rooting for them to win and everything.”

No. 5 Kansas, picked to win its 11th-straight Big 12 Conference regular season title, will unofficially open the season when the Jayhawks welcome Washburn to Allen Fieldhouse for an exhibition contest on Monday, Nov. 3. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.