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• For the first time in his coaching life, Charlie Weis saw one of his running backs might be open for a touchdown pass and thought, in effect, "Oh, no."
• Coaching a Kansas team that hadn't thrown a touchdown pass to a wide receiver in more than a year, Weis was ready for the embarrassing streak that everybody kept talking about to end. And so was quarterback Jake Heaps. He rifled a perfectly thrown 6-yard pass to wide receiver Justin McKay, who caught it for a touchdown.
• "I thought he was going to throw the ball into the flat to Tony (Pierson) and I said, 'Just throw it to Justin, please, and get this over with,'" Weis recalled with a grin.
• James Sims scored twice and Heaps passed for 110 yards and one TD in his much-anticipated debut as the Jayhawks won for the first time in a year after a miserable 1-11 season of 2012.
• McKay agreed everybody was aware of the wide receiver TD drought, which stretched back 17 games to Oct. 22, 2011.
• "We were very aware of it," McKay said, a bit irritably. "We hear it from students, fans, everybody. They tell us. But we got it off the board so it's nothing to worry about any more."
• Heaps' yardage total may not look impressive. But he displayed a strong arm and a quick release in his first action since transferring from BYU, where he smashed most freshman passing records, and sitting out last season.
• He was 10 for 20 and several of his misses probably could have been caught.
• "He had a couple of drops and he had a couple of throwaways," said Weis. "I think you won't have to worry about the wide receivers scoring any touchdowns."
• Sims went 94 yards on 16 carries.
• Josh Vander Maten was 8 for 18 for 67 yards and one touchdown for South Dakota. He also had 78 of the South Dakota's 219 yards rushing.
• "They did a nice job of just taking us and stretching us out and got to the perimeter a lot of times," said Glenn. "We weren't good enough to hold them off."
• Sims, who lead Big 12 runners in rushing in conference games last year, scored on a one-yard run in the second quarter and a six-yard burst around left end in the third. Darrian Miller had 72 yards on 14 carries, including two 17-yard scampers in the 71-yard touchdown drive that put Kansas ahead 21-7 in the third quarter.
• At kickoff, it was a sweltering 97 degrees in this rain-starved corner of the Midwest. The Coyotes, looking to snap a 15-game road losing streak, took a 7-0 lead on Vander Maten's 2-yard TD pass to Drew Potter, who sneaked out of the backfield unnoticed and was all by himself in the end zone. Jordan Roberts picked up 14 yards on a counter play and then Vander Maten ran 13 yards to the 2.
• Heaps, seeing his first action since Nov. 19, 2011, made his first long connection when he rifled a 25-yard pass to Tony Pierson in the second quarter.

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