Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State senior wide receiver Jaylin Noel is this year’s recipient of the Jack Trice Endowed Scholarship.

The scholarship has been awarded annually to a Black student-athlete on the football team who is entering his senior year. The recipient, selected by head football coach Matt Campbell, is a student-athlete who portrays courage, character, selflessness, leadership, dedication to the community, and academic/athletic achievement, all traits of Trice.

“It is an honor to receive this year’s Jack Trice Endowed Scholarship,” Noel said. “This honor does not only represent the work I have put in to become the leader I am today, but it shows the support and continuous care this university and football program have given to allow me to become the man I am today. To be able to represent a person like Jack Trice, who has opened pathways for young men like myself, is a true blessing. This scholarship represents courage, leadership, character and selflessness. All being traits I will continue to uphold my whole life just as Mr. Trice did!”

Noel, the third recipient of the scholarship, is majoring in communications. He earned Academic All-Big 12 honors in 2022 and is a three-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll in addition to being one of the league’s most reliable receivers in 2023 on his way to earning Second Team All-Big 12 accolades.

The Kansas City, Missouri, native had 66 receptions for 820 yards and seven touchdowns as a junior in 2023. In his career, Noel was the third-fastest player in school history to 100 receptions and he enters his final season with 165 catches and 10 receiving touchdowns.

Jack Trice Endowed Scholarship Recipients
2021 – Anthony Johnson Jr.
2022 – Anthony Johnson Jr.
2023 – Gerry Vaughn
2024 – Jaylin Noel

Big 12 Media Relations

In its debut season as a member of the Big 12, Utah was chosen to finish first in the Conference's 2024 football preseason poll as voted on by media representatives.

The Utes claimed 20 first-place votes and totaled 906 points, edging out Kansas State in second with 19 first-place ballots and 889 points. Oklahoma State placed third with 14 first-place votes and 829 points after playing in the 2023 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship. Kansas came in fourth with five first-place nods and 772 points while Arizona notched fifth with three first-place votes and 762 points.

The remaining preseason rankings include 6. Iowa State (661 points), 7. West Virginia (581 points), 8. UCF (551 points), 9. Texas Tech (532 points), 10. TCU (436 points), 11. Colorado (400 points), 12. Baylor (268 points), 13. BYU (215 points), 14. Cincinnati (196 points), 15. Houston (157 points) and 16. Arizona State (141 points).

Big 12 Football Media Days, Presented by Totino's will be conducted next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 9-10. Coverage from both days will be provided on ESPNU and Big 12 Now on ESPN+. For additional information, follow Big12Sports.com and the Conference's official social media platforms.

2024 Big 12 Football Media Preseason Poll

I love how the guy interviewing him tried to walk him back a little bit at the start of the rant, but Chuck Martin wasn't having any of it.

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Supposedly Thomas Crooks has been cremated by the FBI. If true, this means the FBI is completely involved in the hit on Trump.

I’m trying to tamp down my unbridled optimism for the upcoming season. This has been done in the last couple years, so forgive me.

These are bad losses. Games we should have won.

0) Every loss to UNI. Embarrassing losses all.
1) Drake at home in their last season in D1 (1985?). Embarrassing loss.
2) University of the Pacific at home 1979. Embarrassing loss.
3) Baylor at home after leading by 10 and fumbling on their 1 YL 2005. Cost a North title. Baylor was bad back then.
4) Ohio away 2023. Embarrassing loss.
5) Colorado away 1976 leading 14-0 and fumbling on their 1YL. Cost a certain Bowl game at 9-2.

I always look at the Iowa game and wished it was later in the season. ISU always seems to improve as the season goes on and Iowa typically plateaus. So if this was fantasy world and moving the schedule was as easy as a snap of the fingers, I would make Iowa play Nebraska the second week of the season and Iowa vs ISU would be the Friday after Thanksgiving. Majority of the student section would find its way back and the game would have huge measures.

I’d move Arkansas State up to the second game and Utah the third. Of course, if ISU can come out of the the locker rooms playing with their hair on fire like it’s October, this wouldn’t be a thought. How do they fix the slow start?

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Hi. I'm looking for 4 reasonably priced ISU vs KU tickets in KC for November.
Text me at (515) 205-3323.

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Iowa State Media Relations

MAUI, Hawaii – Iowa State will face Auburn on Monday, Nov. 25 in the opening round of the Maui Invitational at the historic Lahaina Civic Center in Maui. Both teams are consensus top 15 teams heading into the 2024-25 season.

Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. central, with the game airing on ESPNU. North Carolina and Dayton are the other two teams on Iowa State's half of the bracket. The semifinal game is slated for Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 5 p.m. central on ESPN, while the consolation game is set for 2:30 p.m. central on ESPNU.

The Cyclones are 2-2 all-time against Auburn, splitting a pair of neutral court games in 1986 and 2000, while each team won on its home floor in 2013 and 2020. The Tigers are coming off a 27-8 season last year, where they won the SEC Tournament before falling to Yale in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. Iowa State is 2-3 all-time against North Carolina, having beaten the Tar Heels in each of the last two meetings in the 2014 NCAA Tournament and 2022 PKI Semifinals. The Cyclones are 2-0 all-time against Dayton, picking up wins in 1987 and 1988.

Other games on opening day in Maui include Memphis facing two-time defending National Champion UConn and Colorado facing Michigan State. All 12 games of the Maui Invitational will be televised on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU, and also be available on the ESPN app.

Iowa State is 3-3 all-time in the Maui Invitational, participating in 1990 and 2018. The Cyclones own wins over Chaminade (1990), Illinois (2018) and San Diego State (2018) in the tournament.

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Royce White won the GOP primary to be their candidate running for the US Senate seat from Minnesota.

I was reading this article in the Ames Trib/DSM Rag about one writer's opinion of the top high school football player at each position in the state of Iowa.
Boy times change. I was going through it, and most of them are Iowa State commits. Top QB, WR, OL, DL, LB, and DB are all ISU commits. We don't have RB, TE, ATH, K/P. Again, one guy's opinion, but certainly nice to see.

Driven by my 9 yr old daughter, most of the Olympics that I watched were women's events (gymnastics, track, beach volleyball , basketball). Almost all of greatest female athletes from around the world came to the us to train in college. There is only ONE profitable women's college program which is Nebraska volleyball. Therefore, because of Title IX, college football basically subsidizes woman's athletics for the entire world.

Good read about Hanika and the gambling scandal.

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Another legacy 4 star for them who had offers from everyone and will terrorize us for four years. As our former players kids like Curvey go to our conference rivals. Getting annoying, in football and basketball.