The official attendance number for Saturday's KU football home game was listed at 15,543. Of course, a big part — if not a majority — of that number was made up of Iowa State fans, who filled the East stands of Memorial Stadium and, at the very least, completely drowned out the KU contingent on that side of the stadium.

After the game, redshirt-senior and KU captain Joe Dineen was asked about the crowd support. While he wanted to make it clear he felt it didn't affect the game, Dineen did express frustration with how the stadium looked.

“It was definitely an Iowa State home game. You know, it’s kind of disappointing," Dineen said. "Before I get into that, though, I want to say thank you to everyone that does show up. There’s a handful of fans that are through and through, no matter what happens, really good, but that’s pretty disappointing when we come out here at Memorial Stadium and there’s more Iowa State fans than KU fans. I think that’s, to put it blunt, that’s [expletive]. You know? It’s a home game. We have one more home game left. I have one more home game left in my career here. It’s not good.”

Dineen was not the only KU player to speak on the topic of the crowd. Running back Khalil Herbert said he just focused on the game, though he did note the Iowa State fans traveled well.

Freshman cornerback Corione Harris had previously tweeted about how Nebraska had a full crowd despite an, at the time, 0-6 record.

"This makes a difference," Harris wrote, adding a sad-face emoji.

Kevin Feder, a transfer from Ohio State, said the team has enough internal support to not need to rely on anything else. However...

"After the first drive, I kind of got a chance to take a deep breath on the sideline — after going over some plays — and look around," Feder said. "Their fanbase does travel very well. Their team is hot so they're going to have more people traveling to the games, but I mean, for me personally, it doesn't really do anything to me. I kind of just drown out all the noise and all that kind of stuff, but it does hurt not having more of our fans than their fans in the stand[s]."

The Jayhawks fell to the Cyclones, 27-3, to drop to 3-6 on the year and 1-5 in Big 12 play.

“I understand our record and stuff like that is not what it should be, but no matter what the reason is, I know for me personally and for everyone else on the team we bust our [behind] every offseason and every practice and stuff, just like everyone else does," Dineen said. "And then when we come out here and, I mean, there’s more Iowa State fans, it’s disheartening for sure. But I mean, that’s not going to affect how we play. We’re going to go out and play hard every game, but, you know, it sucks.”

Dineen later added another comment on the crowd.

“It’s always toward the end of the year. You know the hype for football is kind of up at the beginning of the year and then [they] just don’t stick with it I guess," Dineen said. "Like I said, man, obviously the group of fans that does show up and support and stuff like that, I want to say thank you, but it does suck. ...

“It really is like a home game for [Iowa State]. It’s every, like, big moment, just times throughout the game when we need our fans to be there, it’s just not as loud. It was a little bit disappointing."