This weekend, the ISU football team is slated to play, a slate that is in easily erasable chalk this year. But instead of at the Fighting Ferentzes, it’s home vs. the don’t-call-them-ULaLa Louisiana (-Lafayette) Ragin’ Cajuns.
Like I did for North Tama, here’s the comparison on ISU’s schedule. It turns out not being able to distribute posters at the Iowa State Fair saved delivery of outdated info.
Notice that, somehow, again, there’s only one team from Texas scheduled to play in Ames after mid-October. The Riot Bowl is moved down a week, when it would have been much better weather-wise for both teams to have opponents farther south. On the other hand, for the second time in three years, ISU is playing at home on the first day of deer season, something Mountaineers would enjoy. (Well, if they applied for a non-resident tag in May.)
For historical purposes, ISU played three games in 1918, all in November, losing to Camp Dodge, at Iowa, and at Kansas State by a combined score of 40-0. The consecutive Kansas State streak dates to one year before that. Also, the next game against Kansas will be the 100th.
Obviously, if Iowa State ends up beating Oklahoma at home (LOL) for the first time in 60 years with no one there, it would have a rock-solid place in both Most 2020 Things Possible and Most Iowa State Things Possible.