"I had another sign, but Michigan stole it."

Thought I saw where we were a 2 to 2.5 underdog earlier in the week. Now a fave? Regardless, I want to see us Bear hunting tomorrow.

I know I have a bromance with the guy that my wife says is unhealthy but:

a) He's gonna play Sunday
2) His Jersey just entered the top 10 at 9th overall.

Which people may say big whoop. But Jersey sales are equivalent to Q ratings for entertainers. It leads to all kinds of endorsement opportunities.

Just heard from Arson, that former CR poster, ISU71, passed away suddenly yesterday.
ISU71 was a great guy. His granddaughter is Maggie Espenmiller- McGraw.
Sympathy to his family and many friends on his passing.

Anyone received their's yet? First Women's game next week?

Winter is coming.

Appears to be another Sims in the works!

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Looked like storm was going north of us but has been coming straight down for an hour or so. Should get an inch I would think. Great time for the trees, shrubs and grass. Sorry for those that still have combining to do. Have an Ultra

Unfortunately, it's not the call that Iowa would prefer to overturn. Rather, it was a targeting call against one of their players on the kickoff team right before halftime.


So does Sharrar get to play an extra half of football sometime in the future? Not that he's the key to Iowa's success. That title falls firmly on the broad shoulders of Brian Ferentz. 🤣

I wrote a bunch of notes down to prepare for my radio segment with Miller & Condon and figured I would share those instead of just throwing away my piece of scratch paper!

Baylor:

* Had 19 players make their starting debuts, while 20 freshmen gained experience in the first three games.
* Three changes in their coaching staff this past offseason, including a new defensive coordinator & assistants at RB and LB positions.
* The last time out, the Bears defense allowed 288 yards rushing to Cincinnati, including allowing two RBs to each go for more than 100 and the QB Jones to tack on 56.
* Their rushing defense is 122nd nationally, allowing 199.1 yards per game.
* The Bears' rushing offense is just 109th nationally, averaging 115.6 per game. It's even worse than Iowa State's is through seven games (104th with 117.3), but ISU is trending in a positive direction & BU is not.
* In games versus Texas, Texas Tech, and Cincinnati, the Bears combined for just 157 rushing yards on 89 carries, or an average of a shade less than 1.8 yards per attempt.

Iowa State:
* Following up on CMC's comment that 70% of P5 teams lose coming out of the bye week comment, the Cyclones are 4-6 coming out of open weeks under the head coach.
* The Cyclones have six interceptions in the past two games to push their turnover margin to +7 on the season (2nd in the Big 12 & 11th nationally).
* ISU is averaging 27.8 points per game through three conference games; it averaged 16.3 points during the 2022 conference slate.
* When scoring at least 21 points, the Cyclones have won five in a row and seven of their last nine.

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I-State set to host recently offered 2025 recruit

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Newly-offered 2025 prospect pencils in game day visit

Fun Listen. He still sounds pretty darn sharp. Discusses:
Facility woes…calls JP the greatest AD ever for where we are now.
State of the program he inherited.
Walden and Orr ad campaign
The VEISHIA riots
Some big games including NU 1992 and 1972 when he was on the other side.
Missing a bowl in 1989 and how it hurt the program.
His thoughts on Matt Campbell.
He says he’s not bitter about being fired…deserved it.
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Terrible what was done with our schools during COVID. And, geeze, how interesting that it's exactly what the pundits on Fox predicted would happen...

Have a friend in the Milwaukee area who spends thousands a year sending her kids to private schools for this reason. Ridiculous she has to pay for private schools and public school taxes.

Thank you Dems. Thank you Unions. And thank you parents who support this stuff by voting Left.

I've seen a lot of ISU's. Our local school put this out yesterday. Lot's of hope and expectations for this 2A (out of 8) school. This is the school where I do most of my sports photography. My oldest graduated in 2016 from here. There is an Excelon nuke plant in the district, so it's a small school with big school facilities and resources.

Seneca Fighting Irish Football

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Early defensive priority talks ISU interest, recent game day visit

Gotta love the Sam Houston v UTEP type games. 0-7 v 2-6 with pole vault and high jump pits in the endzones.

Why doesn't espn televise high level Div 3 or NAIA games instead.

Linking a network piece here from Rivals' Midwest guy Clint Cosgrove on Carson Boyd. Iowa State seems to have a 1A and 1B at the QB position in the 2025 class - Boyd & Algona's Alex Manske.