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Kansas football announces sellout for the Duke game this Saturday

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LAWRENCE, KS - SEPTEMBER 02: Kansas Jayhawks cheerleaders lead the team onto the field before a college football game between the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles and Kansas Jayhawks on September 2, 2022 at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, KS. Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire)

If 3-0 Duke traveling to Lawrence to play 3-0 Kansas in football — a showcase of two long-downtrodden teams enjoying long-awaited hot starts — wasn’t enough on its own, the Jayhawks just announced it will be a sellout crowd when the Blue Devils show up on Saturday.

Kansas took to Twitter on Thursday to share the news that David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium should be packed to the gills as all 47,233 seats have been claimed. It will be a far cry from some of the paltry crowds that have been recorded at Kansas home games.

And, according to a tweet from Front Office Sports, it is the second sellout for a Kansas home football game in 13 years.

It’s been a long road for Kansas to get to this point

It’s hard to overstate how impressive a job head coach Lance Leipold has done at Kansas in a little more than one season — 15 games to date — as the head coach. He’s only won a five games, but seeing as the Jayhawks won just six games in their previous three seasons combined, they’re a far cry from where they once were.

Never has that been more evident amid the 3-0 start that Kansas is enjoying this season, the best start to a season for the Jayhawks since 2009 when they started 5-0 before finishing the year on a seven-game losing streak — which resulted in the firing of Mark Mangino. Speaking on the “Breaking the Huddle” podcast with Fox’s Joel Klatt, Leipold shared how Kansas marked improvement through so many losses in 2021 when they went 2-10 and how it has led to the hot start this year.

“And along the way though, as you said — you can’t be in the moral victory business,” Leipold said. “We know how we’re evaluated. But like you said, there’s a lot of internal steps of accountability, attention to detail, progress in other ways, that you look at that are good measuring sticks that you’ve got to try to reinforce as you build a program that’s been down as long as this one has been.”