why Kansas?

I think I can answer this.
I was a student at KU in 1991,and there was an article in either the student newspaper,the University Daily KAnsan,or the local paper,the Lawrence Journal World,where they mentioned this. It turns out that the producersa asked around to a lot of other major universities(read:Division I-A)and got turned down by all of them except Kansas,where a sports information guy took them up on the offer and was given the go-ahead to use the mascot,uniforms and equipment in their movie. IT would be interesting(to me,anyway)to see this article again,but it seemed like the chap who agreed to do this(And evidently it was okay with enough people at the uni that it got no resistance)slightly regretted agreeing to let them use the logo,mascot,etc. for their movie.
I cannot say as I'd blame him if he did.
They always say there's no such thing as bad publicity,but sometimes I wonder.

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Another possible explaination (submitted by a University of North Texas alum): The marching band director at UNT (campus location) at the time the movie was filmed was a Kansas alumnus. He may have had some influence when arranging the Green Brigade (UNT's marching band) to play in the movie.

By the way, Southwest Texas State University (the first game in the movie) is also a real school. The name was changed to Texas State San Marcos a few years ago (odd that they chose "Texas State").

I think another possibility is licensing issues. Southwest Texas State (now Texas State) and Kansas aren't big names when it comes to football, so it was probably cheaper to use them. I would imagine getting schools like the Texas Longhorns would've been costly due to licensing costs, hence the use of the fictional Texas Colts. But that is just a guess.

MM

Because Kansas University sucks.

the other reasons sound good, so it's probably one of them. When I first saw your question, my first guess was because Kansas is a team that most people have heard of, so it makes it seem more legit, plus at the time, Kansas sucked. They had a few good years in the 90s and in the 2000s, even going to the Orange Bowl about 2 years ago, but in the 80s and very early 90s, they were horrible, having many seasons of having only 1 or 2 wins. So if you knew anything about college football at the time, you knew that they were a team with a name but that could be beat by a not very good team. Of course, when they became a better team later in the 90s, they often got off to great starts by playing small schools. Both Kansas and Kansas State were well known for this in the 90s.




















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The Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos had their first non-losing game in the movie when Lucy Draper kicked a field goal in a rainstorm for a 3-3 tie with the University of Kansas Jayhawks. In real life Kansas holds the NCAA Division I-A record for number of tie games with 58. Since then the NCAA introduced the overtime period in football games. Only a rule change would allow this record to be broken.

Because Kansas has been historically *beep* at football.