Missouri license plates won’t feature the Kansas Jayhawks logos anytime soon — at least if the Missouri House has its way.

The chamber approved a measure Tuesday that says only Missouri schools can be featured on special license plates.   But the measure’s sponsor says he’d try to repeal it if Kansas challenges Missouri to a football or basketball game next school year.

Some Missouri Senators set off the brouhaha earlier.

The Alumni Association at KU has been trying to get a customized Jayhawk license plate in Missouri for several years.

A similar effort by the Gorillas of Pittsburg State University was recently approved.

The move would raise money for the state and the KU Alumni Association.

CBS News reports Danny Lewis, who is a Kansas alum living in Missouri, is the head of an Kansas alumni group trying to get Jayhawk-themed license plates approved in the Show-Me State.

As part of the process Rep. Charlie Denison, a Republican from Springfield, sponsored the effort.

But Sen. Bill Stouffer, R – Napton, and Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R – Columbia, two Missouri state senators and Mizzou grads, say they will file a petition to stop the approval of the license plate in Missouri.

Stouffer said in a written statement  he finds  it “appalling” that the creation of this license plate would be conceived in the Show-Me State.

“I have no doubt my colleagues in the Missouri General Assembly will stand behind me and block this.”

KU plates are available right now in Texas and Maryland.

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