Jacke’s Kicks Give Stull a Boost, 22-17 : Big Eight: Five field goals lift the embattled Missouri coach to a 22-17 upset of Kansas.

Coach Bob Stull’s job was on the line and Jeff Jacke might have saved it.

Jacke kicked a school-record five field goals to give Missouri a 22-17 victory over No. 22 Kansas Saturday in a Big Eight Conference game on Stull’s 47th birthday.

“You guys talk a lot more about it than I do,” Stull told reporters. “I don’t worry a lot about it.

“Either they want you here or they don’t, and it doesn’t matter how many games you win. If they fire me, they fire me.”

Stull is 12-31-1 in four seasons at Missouri.

Jacke hit from 21, 39, 40, 23 and 43 yards and broke the school’s 50-year-old career scoring record as Missouri, 3-8 overall and 2-5 in the Big Eight, prevailed in the 101st game of the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi River.

Jacke’s 23-yard field goal with 11:13 to play gave Missouri a 19-17 lead, and he added a 43-yarder with 3:33 remaining.

Jacke scored 225 points, topping the record of 222 set by Bob Steuber, a kicker and running back from 1940-42.

“I’m not Chancellor Jacke or anything,” Jacke said. “But I hope that next week when the chancellor and (athletic director) Dan Devine meet they’ll take into account the whole season, and the last two weeks as well as we’ve played.”

It was the first time Missouri ended the season with consecutive victories since 1978.

Stull has the same career record as his predecessor, Woody Widenhofer, who got fired after a season-ending victory over Kansas. This time, Missouri fans tore down a goal post after the victory and Stull shaved off his mustache.

“I look younger, but my nose has grown two inches,” Stull joked.

It was the third consecutive loss for Kansas (7-4, 4-3), a blow to its chances for a bowl bid.

“My phone isn’t ringing,” Kansas Coach Glen Mason said. “No one has officially invited us. I hope we go.”

The Jayhawks played most of the way without quarterback Chip Hilleary, who sustained a concussion in the first quarter and suffered memory loss.

Missouri’s Victor Bailey caught 12 passes for 179 yards, becoming only the sixth Big Eight player to get 2,000 receiving yards.