[2] The Jayhawks were led by third-year head coach Jack Mitchell and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.
The Jayhawks ended the regular season with an upset victory over their arch-rivals and previously-undefeated and top-ranked Missouri.
Their victory earned them their first outright Big Eight Conference championship since 1930 and an invitation to the Orange Bowl.
Controversy surrounded the end of the season, however, as Kansas was found to have fielded an ineligible player, Bert Coan, in their games against Colorado and Missouri.
[3][1][4] The forfeited games remain a topic of dispute in the Border War.