{"id":6686,"date":"2015-11-24T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2021-11-25T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:00:40","slug":"how-iowa-state-has-lost-football-games-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-iowa-state-has-lost-football-games-in-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"How Iowa State has lost football games in the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This was slightly less painful when I started writing it Oct. 19. Slightly. Paul Rhoads was the perfect man for ISU football everywhere except the W-L ledger. -Ed.]<\/em><\/p>\n

In light of Nebraska’s pair of hilarious losses to BYU and Illinois, Indiana’s Jim Walden-esque forfeiture<\/a> of a 25-point lead, Michigan’s “we have no idea what happened but it’s going to get a special name” loss to Michigan State, and Michigan State’s “out of bounds is just a conjecture” loss to Nebraska, the Big Ten Conference (save for a team that shall remain nameless) is trying to lose games in the most Iowa State ways possible.<\/p>\n

But the last two weeks have proven that over the long term no one, NO ONE, can match the Cyclones in that category. “The most Iowa State way possible” is less\u00a0jaw-dropping\u00a0end-of-game moments and more building like a slow-motion wreck. Here’s a list limited to this century<\/em> of the many ways ISU has lost football games, updated as necessary:<\/p>\n