1996 Kansas Jayhawks football team

1996 Big 12 Conference football standings
	Northern Division
	Southern Division
	Championship: Texas 37, Nebraska 27
	x – Division champion/co-champions; $ – Bowl Alliance representative as champion; % – Bowl Alliance at-large representative; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1996 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were coached by head coach Glen Mason, who resigned after the season to become the head coach at Minnesota and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas. It was the Jayhawks first year in the newly formed Big 12 Conference. The Big 12 conference was formed by the eight teams of the recently dissolved Big Eight Conference and was joined by Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech, all formally of the Southwest Conference which had dissolved following the 1995–1996 school year as well.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
August 29	7:00 p.m.	Ball State*	No. 25	Memorial Stadium Lawrence, Kansas		W 35–10	36,200
September 14	8:00 p.m.	at TCU*	No. 24	Amon G. Carter Stadium Fort Worth, Texas	ESPN2	W 52–17	37,512
September 28	8:00 p.m.	at Utah*	No. 20	Rice Stadium Salt Lake City	ESPN2	L 42–45	32,519
October 5	11:30 a.m.	at Oklahoma		Oklahoma Memorial Stadium Norman, Oklahoma	FSN	W 52–24	64,333
October 12	1:00 p.m.	Texas Tech		Memorial Stadium Lawrence, Kansas		L 17–30	46,500
October 19	11:30 a.m.	No. 9 Colorado		Memorial Stadium Lawrence, Kansas	FSN	L 7–20	48,500
October 26	6:00 p.m.	at No. 5 Nebraska		Memorial Stadium Lincoln, Nebraska	FSN	L 7–63	75,158
November 2	1:00 p.m.	at Iowa State		Cyclone Stadium Ames, Iowa		W 34–31	37,850
November 9	1:00 p.m.	No. 13 Kansas State		Memorial Stadium Lawrence, Kansas (Sunflower Showdown)		L 12–38	48,800
November 16	11:30 a.m.	Texas		Memorial Stadium Lawrence, Kansas	FSN	L 17–38	30,500
November 23	11:30 a.m.	at Missouri		Faurot Field Columbia, Missouri (Border War)	FSN	L 25–42	36,821
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

v t Kansas Jayhawks football
Venues	McCook Field (1892–1920) David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium (1921–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Kansas State: Sunflower Showdown (Governor's Cup) Missouri: Border War Nebraska
Culture & lore	Big Jay Baby Jay "I'm a Jayhawk" Marching Jayhawks Aggieville riots Timeline of football in Kansas First game in Kansas 1911 Missouri game
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1996 Big 12 Conference football standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Northern Division
No. 6 Nebraska x%		8	–	0		11	–	2
No. 8 Colorado		7	–	1		10	–	2
No. 17 Kansas State		6	–	2		9	–	3
Missouri		3	–	5		5	–	6
Kansas		2	–	6		4	–	7
Iowa State		1	–	7		2	–	9
Southern Division
No. 23 Texas x$		6	–	2		8	–	5
Texas Tech		5	–	3		7	–	5
Texas A&M		4	–	4		6	–	6
Oklahoma		3	–	5		3	–	8
Oklahoma State		2	–	6		5	–	6
Baylor		1	–	7		4	–	7
Championship: Texas 37, Nebraska 27
x – Division champion/co-champions $ – Bowl Alliance representative as champion % – Bowl Alliance at-large representative Rankings from AP Poll