lowa State started the season with a 21-3 win against FCS No. 22 North Dakota Saturday afternoon at Jack Trice Stadium. North Dakota owned a 15 minute edge in time of possession and ran 72 plays to the Cyclones' 48.

• lowa State scored on its opening possession of the season as redshirt sophomore QB Rocco Becht hit WR Jaylin Noel for a 54-yard pass on the season's first play and then connected with WR Jayden Higgins for a 21-yard touchdown pass on the second play... Higgins (5 rec., 75 yards, 1 TD) and Noel (8 rec., 135 yards, 1 TD) were both on the Biletnikoff Award Watch List and combined for 13 receptions on 13 targets today ... both players averaged better than 15 yards per reception.

• Becht finished 20-for-26 passing with 267 yards and two touchdowns ... he also snuck one in from two yards out ... in his last three games dating back to last season, Becht has completed 65.8 percent of his passes (50-76) for an average of 314 yards per game with 8 touchdown passes and zero interceptions.

• RB Abu Sama carried just five times in the game but averaged 7.2 yards per carry to finish with 36 yards ... his day was highlighted by a hurdle on his first carry of the season, which went for 16 yards.

• DB Beau Freyler picked off his fifth career pass and finished with 8 tackles in the game.

• ISU's defensive line had six tackles for a loss, two sacks and six QBH in limiting UND to just three points ...J.R. Singleton and newcomer Kenard Snyder had the sacks for the Cyclones.

• lowa State's offensive line unit yielded no sacks and just one QBH in the game ... sixth-year player Jarrod Hufford started at center for the first time in his career and has now made starts at tackle, guard and center in his career.

• Head coach Matt Campbell won his 54th game as Cyclone head coach and needs just two more wins to match Dan McCarney for the most in school history.

Up Next: lowa State travels to No. 25 lowa for the lowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series matchup at 2:30 p.m.
on CBS.

How can anyone, with any self respect and half of a functioning brain, think that an empty suit VP is the best option to be president of the USA and leader of the free world.

She had to drop out of the 2020 primary race because she was an absolute non-factor as an also ran at the bottom of the pile. Her campaign highlight was polling in 4th place in her home state. She was chosen as VP for an identity politics draw and nothing more.

If Trump had dropped out of his re-election campaign in July of 2020 and Pence was shoehorned in, I would say the same thing.

I can’t believe the D Party common people are going along with it. Like sheep to the slaughter.

Clanton must have liked what he saw out of these two 2026 offensive linemen.

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STARTERS:
Pos ## OFFENSE
WR 13 Noel, Jaylin
RB 24 Sama, Abu
QB 3 Becht, Rocco
TE 49 Klotz, Stevo
OL 51 Black, Brendan
OL 54 Hufford, Jarrod
OL 61 Barrett, Dylan
OL 66 Miller, Tyler
OL 75 Neal, James
TE 84 Burkle, Gabe
WR 9 Higgins, Jayden

Pos ## DEFENSE
DB 10 Porter, Darien
DE 11 Onyedim, Tyler
DB 17 Freyler, Beau
LB 26 Bacon, Caleb
DB 4 Cooper, Jeremiah
LB 44 Ellis, Jacob
LB 47 Ebel, Kooper
DB 5 Purchase, Myles
DL 58 Singleton, J.R.
DB 7 Verdon, Malik
DE 89 Jones, Trent

0-Ngoyi, Beni, 0-Lovett, Zachary, 12-Jackson, Jaylon, 12-Imming, Jacob, 13-Smith, Cam, 17-Black, Kai, 18-Brahmer, Benjamin, 19-James, Ta'Shawn, 2-Patton, Jamison, 2-Lee, Dylan, 20-Gilbert, Jace, 22-Klosterman, John, 25-Miller, Easton, 26-Hansen, Carson, 27-Walsh, Tripp, 3-Williams, Jontez, 32-Brown,Carson, 33-Sadowsky, Jack, 37-DouBrava, Mason, 43-Matson, Caden, 45-Same, Samuel, 5-Moberly, Connor, 50-Maro, Tyler, 50-Benetti, Vince, 52-Petersen,Joey, 53-Ladwig, Evan, 53-Hawk, Zaimir, 56-Clausen, Drew, 57-Knobloch, Drake, 6-Mendeszoon, Myles, 6-Green, Eli, 63-Bonifas, Jim, 70-Buhr, Trevor, 71-Greenlee, Gabe, 8-Snyder, Kenard, 8-Alston, Isaiah, 80-Perkins, Tyler, 82-Moore, Tyler, 87-Alexander, Cooper, 88-Ezeogu, Ikenna, 95-Orange, Domonique, 96-Andrews, Chet, 97-Konrardy, Kyle, 99-Shackford, Keegan

Got to talk to Nate Heise. He was with Keshon Gilbert and Curtis Jones. Nice young men. The guys were having a blast talking to kids.

Found the end zone in his first college game in awhile…

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Does anyone know about this kid?
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I think the Cyclones are about a touchdown better than the current 27-point spread, but recent season opener history means it probably won't be quite that lopsided. North Dakota's offense figures to be a hot mess on Saturday, and its defense will probably be just an average unit in the FCS this season. Here's the full breakdown.

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I couldn't go, but it was a wild game. 3A Algona beat #1 2A Spirit Lake 42-40.

Algona was up 42-27 and had to stop a 2 pt conversion to hold on. Manske was good but I don't have stats.

I'm bringing the family tomorrow for their first time watching a game at Jack Trice! I haven't been to one in 35 years so I can probably count myself as a first timer as well. If anyone can provide some info into parking, helpful tips/do's/don'ts I'd appreciate it. Go Cyclones!

It's North Dakota week, so let's get rolling with those predictions for the game against the Fighting Hawks.

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Number one will be the first determiner and then I'll take whoever gets closest to the total points. If needed, I'll go to the passing yards prediction to break a tie.

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Packers struggled at Place Kicker last season, and had a competition between their incumbent (Anders Carlson) and a former Viking (Greg Joseph)--decided to instead go with Brayden Narveson (ISU 2019), who was released by the Titans.

Not sure that gives me the greatest confidence, but he did have a very nice pre-season with Tennessee.

So, what is the status of the north lots for 2 weeks from Saturday? I know the center is not to be ready for another year, but are the east side lots going to be finished?

Colorado in action versus the Bison with QB & Solon (Iowa) native Cam Miller on ESPN. Kansas hosting Lindenwood in a soccer stadium on ESPN+. Other games going as well.

How about a thread to discuss all of the night’s happenings?