Originally Posted by cloneaholic 
Cyclone kicker Bret Culbertson was flimsier than a house of cards before Iowa came to town, but given enough chances in a uninspired performance by Ferentz's Hawkeyes, the senior came through.
The loss was bad at the time, falling to a team that had been defeated by Championship-Subdivison Northern Iowa, 24-13, the week before. The loss looked even worse as the weeks passed. The Cyclones dropped their next six games, including a 36-35 loss to Toledo a week after winning their "Super Bowl."
The debacle at Iowa State began a trend of games in which Iowa came out flat and never recovered (see: Indiana and Western Michigan).
- by Mike Brownlee
3 cliched excuses in 3 paragraphs is pretty impressive, even for the Iowa student newspaper.
edit: also; isn't "point/counterpoint" supposed to include counterpoints, and not just points?
