Category Archives: Sports

Sep 29

NT remains undefeated against GR

That is all. So it’s only 11 games in 25 years. Still counts!

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Sep 18

Hooray! We don’t reek! (Wait a second…)

November 18, 2011 Pat Forde on the etiquette of field-storming: If your program doesn’t reek of tradition and arrogance and you beat a top-five team, storm the field. (See: Oklahoma State vs. Iowa State last year.) Then later in the … Continue reading

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Sep 15

Long legs

From the “strange football statistics” department: Northern Iowa and Iowa State both made 49-yard field goals today.

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Sep 14

The system is obviously flawed

Caught at the bottom of this L.A. Times piece about Notre Dame being* in the ACC is this bit: Are these rankings for football teams or truck stops? Ken Massey’s early season Bowl Championship Series algorithms are always good for … Continue reading

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Sep 12

It’s official: Notre Dame will never play Iowa State

Notre Dame going to the ACC in everything but football (SB Nation). More from ESPN. ND to the Big 12 was a fool’s hope anyway. But a $50 million exit fee(!) means that Florida State won’t be thinking about it either. … Continue reading

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Sep 11

Northern Iowa considering moving to Division I-A?

This has “bad idea” written all over it. Which is better: Being a relatively big fish in a medium-sized pond or a guppy in the ocean? UNI gave Wisconsin a game. It will likely give Iowa a game. But moving … Continue reading

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Sep 09

We need unified Iowa HS football hashtags

Many Iowa media outlets have agreed on using the Twitter hashtag “iahsfb” when covering Friday night games live. By using this tag, one can follow updates on games across the state. (Following football games like this is one of the … Continue reading

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Sep 09

ESPN’s Big 12 blogger doesn’t like Iowa State much

This is David Ubben’s third season of covering the Big 12 Conference for ESPN. He has never been to Ames. Ultimately, we still cover the most nationally relevant games in the Big 12 each week. Iowa State likes to pull … Continue reading

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Sep 06

ISU-Iowa: No love lost

As we wait for Saturday’s game, there is something Iowa State needs to be reminded of: Many, many Iowa fans take ISU’s mere existence on the schedule as an insult. Read this from last year, right before the game, when … Continue reading

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Sep 06

ISU’s road game loss streaks

Same song, nth verse: It’s hard for Iowa State to win on the road. (It’s hard to win at home, too, but let’s put that aside.) It’s been a full decade since Iowa State last won at Kinnick Stadium. Here … Continue reading

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