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Kansas
Jayhawks Too Much For Tigers On Homecoming
10/14/2000 12:00:00 AM | Football
Oct. 14, 2000
By DAVID SCOTT
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Dylen Smith threw one for a touchdown and ran for another as Kansas beat Missouri 38-17 on Saturday to snap a 14-game conference road losing streak.
It was coach Terry Allen's first conference win on the road in his four years at Kansas (3-3, 1-2 Big 12), and the first win for the road team in the last six games of the nation's second oldest series.
Smith was 14-of-30 for 234 yards. He has failed to complete more than half of his passes for the eighth straight game.
David Winbush had a season-high 89 yards on 24 carries, and the Jayhawks pounded the Tigers for a season-high 453 total offensive yards. Missouri (2-4, 1-2 Big 12) has allowed an average 382.5 yards this season.
Kansas led just 17-14 at halftime, but Smith opened up 24-14 lead on the Jayhawks' first possession of the second half, hitting Winbush with a 34-yard pass to set up his own 3-yard touchdown run.
Roger Ross' 62-yard punt return for a touchdown with 5:31 left in the third quarter gave Kansas a 31-14 lead. Ross also scored on an 8-yard reception in the second quarter.
Winbush capped a 12-play, 76-yard drive late in the third quarter to put the Jayhawks up 38-17.
It was a disastrous day for Missouri quarterback Darius Outlaw, making just his second career start. Outlaw threw four interceptions, one returned 32 yards by Tim Bowers for a touchdown, and finished 16-of-34 for 237 yards with touchdown. He lost 18 yards rushing on 11 carries.
His sole highlight was a 60-yard pass to Eric Spencer late in the second quarter that brought Missouri within 3 at 17-14.
Zain Gilmore ran for 27 yards on 13 carries for Missouri, which only managed Brad Hammerich's 31-yard yard field goal in the second half.
Missouri had taken a 7-3 lead on a goofy, three-play, three-fumble exchange to start the second quarter. Missouri's Pat Duffy stripped the ball from Dylen Smith on the quarter's opening play, and Justin Smith recovered the ball at the Kansas 3.
On the next play, Gilmore fumbled, Bowers recovering at the 2. Moran Norris got the next touch for Kansas. He fumbled in the end zone, and Duke Revard recovered for the Missouri touchdown.
