Rivals dropped down to #12 in the state and not one of the top 60 in the country
combined dual and pro

That is surprising

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In Iowa City, Michigan up by 20. Fran is ejected. Michigan is missing their head coach, and they have a losing record, and they are kicking Iowa's butt in the morgue.

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Hearing both Thomas Meyer and Zay Robinson will be at Iowa State for a bowl practice on Saturday. They're each ranked in the top five of in-state recruits for 2025.

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Did anyone notice if Hasan had a boot on or not? I haven't looked at the replay yet, but one timeout I thought I saw him sitting at the end of the bench with a boot.

Iowa State Media Relations

IRVING, Texas – Abu Sama III has been named Big 12 Offensive Player and Newcomer of the Week after a breakout performance against No. 19 Kansas State in Manhattan, the league office announced Monday. It marks the second time this month Sama has been recognized by the conference.

In his first-career start, Sama ran for 276 yards and three touchdowns in snowy conditions Saturday, helping ISU to a 42-35 victory over the Wildcats. His 276 rushing yards were the fourth-most in a game, most in a road game, and the most ever by a freshman in school history.

The freshman had touchdown runs of 77, 71 and 60 yards making him the second FBS player since 1996 with three or more rushing touchdowns of 60-plus yards against a ranked opponent.

Sama became the first Big 12 player to have two 70-plus yard rushing touchdowns in a game since Adrian Peterson (Oklahoma) in 2005 and the first player in school history (dating back to 1971) with three rushing touchdowns of 50 yards or more in a single game.

The Des Moines native joined Troy Davis (1995) and Breece Hall (2020 & 2021) as the only ISU players with multiple 50-plus yard rushes in a single game.

Sama and the Cyclones await their bowl destination which will be announced Dec. 3.

2023 ISU Big 12 Weekly Honors

Sept. 4 - Jeremiah Cooper (DPOW)

Sept. 25 - Chase Contreraz (STPOW)

Oct. 9 - Beau Freyler (DPOW)

Oct. 16 - Chase Contreraz (STPOW)
Nov. 13 - Abu Sama III (NOW)
Nov. 27 - Abu Sama III (OPOW, NOW)

28th in nation is darn good.

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Brock completed over 70% of his passes for the 7th straight game, just one short of the 49ers team record of 8 set by Joe Montana.

Career high in passing yards (368) with 2 TDs and one early pick. 3 teammates had 100+ yards, Aiyuk, Samuel, and McCaffrey. Kittle had a receiving TD as well.

So I was 4 when this game was played and obviously don’t remember a thing from it. Found the game on YouTube and at the end when Orr was shaking hands with Tom Davis, one of Davis’s assistant coaches charged and chest bumped Orr. What in the Hell was that all about? Appears there definitely wasn’t any love loss between the two staffs.

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Without looking, which recruiting class for CMC had the most NFL players?

Iowa State Media Relations

IRVING, Texas – Iowa State guard Keshon Gilbert has been named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week.

Gilbert turned in his third-straight game with 20-plus points, including wins over Iowa and Prairie View A&M last week. He is the first Cyclone with three straight 20-point games since Izaiah Brockington in February 2022. The junior guard tied his career-high with 25 points in a 20-point victory over Iowa. Gilbert added six assists, five rebounds and three steals to become just the fourth player in the country this season with those totals. The sociology student contributed 20 points, eight assists and eight rebounds against Prairie View A&M. Iowa State is now 4-0 when he reaches the 20-point plateau.

In 10 starts this season, Gilbert leads the Cyclones with 16.3 points per game. He is also averaging 4.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1.9 steals per contest.

Iowa State returns to action on Sunday, Dec. 17 against Florida A&M. Tipoff is set for 5 p.m. at Hilton Coliseum.

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The Athletic is a subscription, thus the full article is linked:

Texas A&M’s 2022 recruiting class made history. How many will still be Aggies in ’24?​

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Among the No. 1 recruiting classes for 2017 through 2020, the average attrition rate has been 41 percent. The Aggies nearing that mark in just two years is concerning but not shocking. (full article linked above)

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I've confirmed with Snow (Utah) JUCO OL Seth Wilfred that he will be taking an official visit to Iowa State this weekend.

Congrats TJ!

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We have four very high level “quarterbacks in two sports setting records right now: RB & BP in college FB & the NFL and Tamin & Tyrese in college MBB & the NBA! I haven’t checked any data source, but if my nearly 83 year old brain can still recall such info, I am pretty sure ISU Athletics has never been close to such high level performances on these levels.

Very Cool.

Diz

The free public parking is a bit constricted with the accelerated CyTown construction. Anybody have a parking pass they're willing to sell?

SOLD:
Great seats on/near the 50 yard line
Section 104, Row 58

The Cyclones and Panthers tip off at Noon today inside Hilton Coliseum. The game will be carried on ESPN+. I’ll have the periodic updates for you in the thread below.

Proven D-Coordinater hire and ridiculously qualified position coach hire for LB’s.

Going to be another team to feast the former west division.