LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Jalon Daniels was about to celebrate the first touchdown in the rebuilt stadium at Kansas when the pyrotechnics went off.

Forgive him for being a little startled.

The Jayhawks never had such trappings when they played in crumbling Memorial Stadium, a century-plus-old concrete structure perched on the northern edge of campus. Heck, they didn't even have a permanent tunnel to run out of on game day, instead entering the field through an inflatable alleyway that looked like part of a children's bounce house.

“The fireworks after scoring touchdowns, I mean, that's something that I was kind of like, ‘Yeah, I wish that we were able to do that earlier in my career,’” Daniels said later, after the Jayhawks beat Fresno State 31-7 in their opener on Saturday night.

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