Kansas head coach Lance Leipold discusses the historic Union Jack Classic at Wembley Stadium and the global growth of college football.
As the Arizona State Sun Devils and Kansas Jayhawks wind down their spring schedule, preparations for an important milestone in the 2026 college football season continue apace across the Atlantic, with Kansas head coach Lance Leipold spending time in London ahead of the Union Jack Classic clash between the two Big 12 programs at Wembley Stadium.
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Leipold sits in a suite at Wembley Stadium, a blue Kansas track jacket contrasting with the iconic red seats of the English national stadium behind him. Less than six months from now, his Jayhawks will face Arizona State on this very turf in the Union Jack Classic.
“Just getting in here about an hour ago and getting up to the suite level and looking out on the field, it is an awe-striking moment,” Leipold tells me as we sit down to discuss the upcoming international slate.
“I’m looking forward to getting down onto field level here later this morning and taking a look all around and thinking about all the history and everything that’s been played here, concerts, the whole gamut of what this stadium truly is worldwide.”
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