(Through September 1, 2021. Updates will be marked as needed for the 2021 season.)
- 39,824: Days between November 23, 1912, when Iowa State won a share of the 1912 Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association football championship, and December 4, 2021, the next Big 12 Championship Game
- 39,786: Days between December 20, 1803, when the United States flag first flew over Louisiana Territory, and November 23, 1912
- 86: Times Iowa State has played Oklahoma, including twice in 2020
- 73: Percent of years Oklahoma has been a state with ISU on OU’s football schedule
- 18: Times Iowa State has played Texas
- 13: Times Iowa State has won as an AP-ranked team with anyone not named Matt Campbell as head coach
- 12: Times Iowa State has won as an AP-ranked team with Matt Campbell as head coach, seven of which were in the 2020 season
- 7: Times Iowa State has beaten Oklahoma
- 7: Times Tulsa has beaten Oklahoma (but only once since 1935)
- 7: Iowa State’s ranking in the 2021 AP preseason poll, the highest for any Iowa State team since the invention of polling, the Associated Press, or football
- 5: Times Oklahoma was ranked in the AP Top 10 in the 2020 season, including at both beginning and end but with an unranked period in the middle
- 4: Times Iowa State has beaten Texas
- 4: Football seasons, maximum, the Big 12 Conference in its current configuration has to live
- 4: Times a ranked Iowa State team has beaten another ranked team, ever (2002 Nebraska, 2017 TCU, 2020 Texas, 2020 Oregon)
- 4: Times Iowa State has been ranked in the AP preseason poll (1978, 2019-21)
- 3: Times in the 2020 season Iowa State played as the higher-ranked team against a ranked opponent, doubling the all-time total to 6
- 2: Times Iowa State has played when ranked in the AP Top 10, both against Oklahoma (2002, 2020 champ game). The third is the UNI-ISU game at the start of the 2021 season.
- 1: Times Iowa State has played Iowa as a ranked team (1978)
- 0: Times Iowa and Iowa State were both ranked when they played each other