A Stellar Start

You've gotta love the opening weekend of NCAA football, especially when your own team has such a great start! Although I'm a couple of days late blogging about it, Saturday night we went to the home opener of the 2007 KU football season, and the outcome was even better than we imagined it would be! Prior to the game, Chad had done some reading about the Central Michigan team we were playing, who apparently returned 14 starters from last year and also went to a bowl game. It was supposed to be a pretty tough game, but KU made mincemeat of the Chippewas, beating them 52-7. We ended up leaving after the 3rd quarter when the score was 45-0. It was great!

Our new starting quarterback is Todd Reesing, who's a sophomore that I happened to blog about last season when he came in as a backup and had a very impressive game. His first start for the Jayhawks was no less impressive! He threw for 261 yards and four touchdowns with no interceptions! There were many great plays during the game, but my favorite was an amazing grab by Marcus Henry (86) where he went over the back of the defender, tipped the ball up in the air and then caught it as he was falling to his knees. It was definitely worthy of Sports Center!

Another highlight of the game for me was seeing my favorite player, sophomore Jake Sharp, rush for over 100 yards. I'm not just a Sharp fan because he's a fellow Salina Central Mustang--this kid is an amazing running back! I became a fan after watching all of the Mustang highlight videos from Jake's senior year at Central. Sharp set several state records and was so much fun to watch. You can check out Jake the human highlight film on YouTube.

Check out the LJW for more highlights and pictures from Saturday's game!