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Kansas looks to feast on more home cooking

Sep 6, 2008 - 11:52 AM Louisiana Tech (1-0) at No. 12 Kansas (1-0), 7:00pm EDT

LAWRENCE, Kansas (Ticker) -- Interest in Kansas football is at an all-time high, as a school-record crowd of 52,112 saw the Jayhawks open their season with a 40-10 victory over Florida International.

The 12th-ranked Jayhawks hope to give their fans more to cheer about Saturday when they continue their non-conference schedule against Louisiana Tech.

Albeit against an inferior opponent, Kansas picked up where it left off last season as Todd Reesing tossed three touchdown passes to sophomore Dezmon Briscoe, the Jayhawks' third-leading receiver in 2007. Florida International was coming off a 1-11 campaign.

Kansas won a school-record 12 games last season and wants to show that it was not a fluke, although the Jayhawks may be hard-pressed to duplicate that mark due to a difficult schedule that includes Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri.

But first Kansas (1-0) has to get through its non-conference slate. Reesing, who threw a school-record 36 touchdowns last season, had a relatively quiet game against Florida International, compared to some of the numbers he posted last year. He still completed 37-of-52 passes for 256 yards.

"We could have been sharper," Reesing said. "The first game out, some things weren't as crisp as we would like them to be. It's a good place to start, and I thought we executed fairly well. I would like to see the running game get going a little more."

Kansas was limited to 128 yards on the ground, led by Angus Quigley, who ran for only 47 yards on six carries.

The Jayhawks will look to work out the kinks against a Louisiana Tech team that opened with a 22-14 upset of Mississippi State.

Brad Oestriecher kicked three field goals for the Bulldogs (1-0), who defeated a team from a BCS conference for the first time since a victory over Michigan State in 2003.

Louisiana Tech forced three turnovers in the third quarter to post its first win over a Southeastern Conference opponent since an upset at Alabama in 1999.