Bringing you CHEEZ IT National Team of the Week as well as honorable mention team

The Kansas Jayhawks traveled to Provo, Utah, home of the BYU Cougars and handed BYU their fist loss of the season, defeating the #6 Cougars 17-13, thus earning them the Cheez-It National Team of the Week.

This is the seventh time for Kansas (4-6) to win the weekly award and the first time since Oct. 28, 2023, once again knocking off a #6 team this time it was Oklahoma, 38-33, which was also KU’s last win against a top-10 opponent.

Kansas upset then-No. 17 Iowa State 45-36 on Nov. 9. Paired with the win over BYU (9-1), they are Kansas’ first back-to-back victories against ranked foes since 1995, when it defeated No. 4 Colorado on Oct. 7 followed two weeks later by a 38-17 win over No. 15 Oklahoma on Oct. 21.

The Jayhawks scored the game's deciding points after recovering a pooch punt by quarterback Jalon Daniels at the BYU three yard line 97 seconds into the fourth quarter. Daniels had been sacked on the previous play, taking Kansas out of field goal range while trailing 13-10. One play after the muffed punt, Devin Neal gave Kansas the lead, 17-13 with a 3 yard TD run.The Jayhawks stopped BYU inside the ten yard line in the game's final minute to ice the game.

“We found a way this time,” coach Lance Leipold told reporters in Provo. “We found a way to get some stops defensively when we had trouble slowing them down. We tightened up a couple of different times for some key plays. (We) were able to get the fourth-down stop there at the end and run the clock out.”

The Jayhawks are now 3-0 all-time against BYU.

Kansas, now with a pair of upsets against ranked opponents in the same season for the first time since 2007, hosts another Saturday against co-Big 12 leader Colorado (8-2) at 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. FOX has the national broadcast. It is the first conference matchup between the Jayhawks and Buffaloes since 2010.