Category Archives: Sports

Sep 01

College football season begins

For the first time in over a century, neither Missouri nor Nebraska is on Iowa State’s football schedule. For the first time this decade, Iowa State is starting a football season without its existence as a major-conference program in mortal … Continue reading

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Aug 31

Where ISU’s records stand entering 2012-13

This is an update to a post I made last year. As of the beginning of the 2012 season, Iowa State has played 1,140 football games, according to the NCAA, but the two disagree on the win-loss-tie record (500-594-46 vs. 499-595-46). The discrepancy … Continue reading

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Aug 30

Have fun storming the castle

Pat Forde is trolling the Cyclones, the Sooners, or both: Oklahoma at Iowa State (32), Nov. 3. Paul Rhoads, on the other hand, has a big moment every year. In three seasons at Iowa State, Rhoads has shocked Nebraska as a 20-point … Continue reading

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Aug 25

The Alphabet Bowl

Last night, AGWSR beat BCLUW 13-6 in a cross-district Class A game. “It was the alphabet game,” one of the guys said on the Iowa Sports Spotlight Scoreboard Show (broadcast on radio and Channel 13.2). Alphabet game? No, make it … Continue reading

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Aug 22

Well, the Wildcats do own the Longhorns right now

You can get a license plate in Texas with the Kansas State logo. (via @jonfmorse)

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Aug 20

We’re Number 110!

Based purely on end-of-season historical AP rankings since 1936, Iowa State is in a five-way tie for 110th out of 125. Iowa Pre-Flight is 84th. Of major-conference teams, only Vanderbilt and Wake Forest are anywhere near as low. The last … Continue reading

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Aug 17

Week Zero

The vagaries of the calendar this year, plus the continuation of an extra round of the playoffs, mean that high school football in Iowa starts way, way early this year. That’s right: There are kids in school and football games … Continue reading

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Aug 09

College conferences and House apportionment

(This is long and deals with the intersection of geography and football. You have been warned.) When Iowa State was on the verge of falling into athletics oblivion a year ago (again), I wrote in The Des Moines Register about … Continue reading

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Aug 07

How television ate college football

Andy Staples has an excellent long piece at SI.com. A key passage about the most recent events: Later, when it came time to add a 14th school, SEC leaders took Missouri. Clemson or Florida State might have made more geographic sense, … Continue reading

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Aug 01

The most the New York Times has written about Iowa State

I’m not completely sure the statement in the headline is true, but the vast majority of this article about what Penn State faces with scholarship reduction deals with just HOW BAD Cyclone football was in the Jim Walden era thanks … Continue reading

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