Kansas Chalks Up Another Win

Saturday, November 3rd 2007, 4:03 pm

By: News On 6

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Todd Reesing threw a school-record six touchdown passes as 8th-ranked Kansas battered Nebraska 76-39, keeping the surprising Jayhawks in the national championship picture.

Kansas improved to 9-and-0, including 5-and-0 in Big-12 play, by scoring touchdowns on 10 straight possessions and rolling up the most points ever scored against Nebraska in its 117-year football history.

Todd Reesing was 30-of-41 for 354 yards, and his 23 touchdown passes also set a school single-season record. Brandon McAnderson ran for 119 yards and tied a school record with four rushing TDs.

With their first five-game losing streak since 1958, Nebraska appears to be falling apart at the seams in the fourth season of embattled coach Bill Callahan. They are 4-and-6 with a 1-and-5 conference mark.

The athletic director who hired Callahan was fired on October 13th following a 45-14 home loss to Oklahoma State. His interim successor, former coach Tom Osborne, who won three of Nebraska's five national championships, was watching from a pressbox suite but a school spokesman says he has no comment.

Kansas had lost 37 of 38 to Nebraska. The average score from 1971-to-2000 was 47-7 and only once since 1974 had Kansas even come into the game with the better record. The unbeaten Jayhawks were 20-point favorites this year.