Kansas and former LSU coach Les Miles close to agreement

Les Miles, a football coach without a team, and Kansas, a football team without a coach, were finalizing a deal to fill those gaps Friday.

Various news outlets, led by Sports Illustrated, reported that an announcement is imminent.

Miles, 65, would replace David Beatty, already fired. Miles led LSU to two SEC titles and the 2007 national championship in 12 seasons before being fired in 2016, and he coached Oklahoma State before that. He has 141 coaching victories in 16 seasons.

Miles and Kansas athletic director Jeff Long worked together at Michigan in the 1980s, and Long also tried to hire Miles when he was athletic director at Arkansas before coming to Kansas.

Kansas is on its fourth head coach since Mark Mangino's reign ended in 2009, and the Jayhawks (3–7 overall, 1–6 Big 12) are guaranteed their 22nd losing record in the conference in the past 23 seasons. They've been to four bowl games since 1995, haven't won a conference championship in a half-century and lost 35 of their past 37 Big 12 games.

Miles reached a settlement on his contract with LSU on Thursday, freeing him to take another job.

The annual Big Game between Stanford and California that had been scheduled for Saturday was postponed two weeks because of the air quality in the Bay Area resulting from a wildfire 150 miles to the north.

This is the just the second postponement of the Big Game between Cal (6-4, 3-4 Pac-12) and Stanford (6-4, 4-3). It was delayed one week in 1963 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The rival schools have been playing each year since 1892 with the exception of breaks during World Wars I and II.

Stanford officials said the schools tried to hold off a final decision until Saturday but acknowledged that the forecast gave no reason to expect air quality to sufficiently improve. The schools also were bound by NCAA and Pac-12 guidelines on air quality in making the decision.