Longest Plays ▪ Opponents
These lists are based on the official records from the 1994 and 2003 media guides, and the 2010 and 2020 stats supplements. I am working my way backwards through older media guides and box scores and have added plays from 2015 to present that fall between the 'official' minimum yards (shortest listed play) and my own minimums (below the category subtitle). The rows for those additional plays will be shaded gray and have no ranking since the data is incomplete. I am also working to confirm plays that resulted in touchdowns (they were not specified in the official lists), even if some seem obvious.
All Plays | Runs | Passes | Kick Returns | Punt Returns | Interception Returns | Fumble Returns | Field Goals | Punts
Field Goal Returns | Extra Point Returns
Kick Returns
Minimum 50 yards
| Yards | TD | Player | Season | Opponent | Result | 1. | 100 | Y | Brennan Presley | 2021 | A | #7 Oklahoma State | L | 37-33 | 100 | Y | Fozzy Whittaker | 2011 | N | #11 Texas | W | 55-17 | 100 | Y | Coryell Judie | 2010 | A | Texas A&M | L | 33-19 | 100 | Y | Mack Heron | 1968 | H | Kansas State | W | 35-20 | 5. | 99 | Y | Kelvin Turpin | 2018 | A | TCU | W | 52-27 | 6. | 98 | Brandon Banks | 2009 | H | Kansas State | W | 42-30 | 98 | Cyrus Gray | 2008 | A | Texas A&M | W | 66-28 | 98 | Shaun Rochon | 2005 | H | Baylor | W | 37-30 (2OT) | 9. | 97 | Mardy Gilyard | 2008 | H | Cincinnati | W | 52-26 | 10. | 96 | Jordan Shipley | 2008 | N | #5 Texas | L | 45-35 | 11. | 95 | Willie Jones | 1971 | H | Iowa State | W | 43-12 | 12. | 93 | Y | Malik Knowles | 2021 | A | Kansas State | W | 37-31 | 93 | Gale Sayers | 1964 | A | Kansas | L | 15-14 | 93 | Y | Russell Dills | 1929 | A | Missouri | L | 13-0 | 15. | 90 | Perrish Cox | 2008 | A | #11 Oklahoma State | W | 61-41 | 16. | 89 | Y | Justin Gilbert | 2010 | A | #10 Oklahoma State | W | 47-41 | 17. | 86 * | Y | Gahn McGaffie | 2010 | A | #18 Missouri | L | 36-27 | 18. | 85 | Kene Nwangwu | 2020 | A | Iowa State | L | 37-30 | 19. | 83 | Ricardo Rhodes | 1998 | A | #20 Missouri | L | 20-6 | 20. | 81 | Victor Ike | 2000 | N | #11 Texas | W | 63-14 |
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| 59 | Byron Pringle | 2016 | H | Kansas State | W | 38-17 | |||||
| 58 | Malik Knowles | 2022 | H | Kansas State | L | 41-34 | |||||
| 58 | Ishmael Zamora | 2015 | A | #4 Baylor | W | 44-34 | |||||
| 56 | Kelvin Turpin | 2017 | H | #8 TCU | W | 38-20 | |||||
| 56 | P. Campbell | 2017 | A | #2 Ohio State | W | 31-16 | |||||
| 56 | Barry Sanders | 2016 | H | #11 Oklahoma State | W | 38-20 | |||||
Notes
- * Opening kickoff