Via Kansas Athletics
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – Kansas scored 37 points and totaled 448 yards of offense, while holding West Virginia to season lows in scoring, rushing yards and total offense as Kansas dominated West Virginia, 37-14 at Milan Puskar Stadium on Saturday.
Kansas (4-6, 2-5 Big 12) scored five rushing touchdowns, including two from running backs Khijohnn Cummings-Coleman and Chase Belcher, while quarterback Isaiah Marshall rushed for a career-high 164 yards and a touchdown. The Jayhawks scored 30 first half points, including 339 yards of offense and four first half rushing touchdowns.
Kansas’ defense held the explosive West Virginia offense to season lows in scoring (14), rushing yards (35) and total offense (261). Kansas’ Corey Gordon led KU with a career-high 11 tackles, while Trey Lathan recorded his third interception of the season.
West Virginia falls to 5-5 and 2-5 in Big 12 Conference play and will take on Houston on Nov. 21 at home and Utah on Nov. 28 in Salt Lake City to finish the season.
Kansas received the opening kickoff and marched down the field with a 10-play, 69-yard drive that finished with a 24-yard field goal by kicker Martin Connington as Kansas took an early 3-0 lead.
On Kansas’ first defensive possession, captain Trey Lathan intercepted West Virginia’s pass at the 32-yard line, marking Lathan’s third interception of the season and second-career interception against his former team.
Kansas would make quick use of the short field and get in the endzone just two plays later as running back Khijohnn Cummings-Coleman scored on a 5-yard carry to put Kansas up, 10-0, with under nine minutes left in the first quarter.
West Virginia would get on the scoreboard on its next possession, scoring on a 12-play, 75-yard drive to cut the deficit to three points at 10-7 with 4:35 remaining in the first quarter.
The Jayhawks would score on its third-straight offensive possession just before the end of the first quarter, as Cummings-Coleman reached the endzone on a 26-yard carry to bring the score to 17-7 with 1:01 to go in the first quarter. The pair of first quarter touchdowns marked Cummings-Coleman’s first-career multi-touchdown game.
Kansas’ defense held strong in the first half, holding West Virginia to punt on its first possession of the second quarter. The Jayhawks would then march down the field with a 50-yard carry from Marshall, on a drive that was capped off by Chase Belcher’s first touchdown as a Jayhawk to put Kansas up 23-7 with 6:28 left in the first half.
The Jayhawk defense held West Virginia out of the endzone in the second quarter, as Kansas would score once again on a 4-yard carry by Marshall to go up 30-7. It was the most first half points by the Jayhawks against a Big 12 Conference opponent since scoring 31 against Iowa State in 2024.
The Jayhawks scored their fifth rushing touchdown of the game to start the fourth quarter on an eight-yard rush by Belcher to go up 37-7. Kansas’ defense held strong in the second half, holding West Virginia to just seven second half points, which West Virginia found with five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.
Kansas will return home to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to host the BYU Cougars on Saturday, November 21. The game will serve as Senior Day for Kansas’ senior class. Kickoff time and television designation will be announced on Sunday.
