I hope People are tempering their expectations. This is a good team but has the second level of the defense decimated. Once again, this program is overachieving so don’t go nuts when we regress to the mean.
Is this years' team better than we thought?
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At what point does the “overachieving” become the mean?
I hear you. I am dreading the eventual meltdown here when we drop a game or two.
It’s always the pessimists that do the most melting down, which is ironic because the team just ends up proving them right but they still complain the loudest.
Right and I hear you. We cannot take anyone for granted. If the higher-ups wanna throw pixie dust on our season, and it is
THE season to remember, great! More power to us. We'll take it.
On the other hand... no guarantees.
I'm not sure we have been there yet. And the future seems uncertain, with college football, at best.
We are not overachieving through the first 4 games. If anything, our offense is underachieving.
Ya I don't understand the loser mentality in here. If ISU starts clicking on offense and they're not very far off, we're going to be thrashing teams.
When the opposition improves and the success continues. Other than Iowa this team has faced some good lower level teams/bad same level teams. Gotta prove it against tougher teams.
This sounds pessimistic, but I actually continue to be optimistic. Gonna enjoy the ride...
Iowa State (4-0) 20 - Houston (1-4) 0
Iowa State (5-0) 43 - Baylor (2-4) 21
@ West Virginia (3-2): West Virginia ends up wrecking OSU and sets up a big one. Will the injuries be what holds the Cyclones back in this one? I don't think so. Iowa State goes into Morgantown and steals a close one in a barn burner. Iowa State 38 - West Virginia 35
UCF (3-3): UCF comes in struggling and it carries over into a cold night in Ames. No longer predicting a sloppy victory. Iowa State 40 - UCF 14
#15 Texas Tech (7-1): Tech comes into Ames on a 6 game for a sold out undefeated Iowa State on homecoming. Iowa State rolls under the lights. Iowa State 34 - Texas Tech 17
Kansas (1-7): At the beginning of the year, KU was talked about as a team that's going to compete for a conference title. That has been the opposite as they've looked
Cincinnati (5-4): This is going to be the toughest game on Cincinnati's schedule. Iowa State embarrasses the Bearcats. Iowa State 41 - Cincinnati 17
Utah (7-3): Changing things up here. I don't think Cam Rising sees the field until maybe the ISU game and I think Utah drops two more before the Cyclones come to town. However, I think they get behind their QB and give Iowa State the first loss of the season. Iowa State 17 - Utah 20
#14 Kansas State (9-2): Kansas State comes into Ames at night in a game to go to the Big 12 Championship. No snow in this one, but Iowa State wins in a high scoring back and forth shootout. Iowa State 40 - Kansas State 38
Pre-season, I think a lot of fans looked at our schedule and thought if this team is what we think it is, we could very realistically start 5-0 and then the schedule gets harder. If we win this week then I'll really drink the kool-aid, at that point you are 6-0, favored in every remaining game, and with at least three of those games where you'd be really disappointed to lose, the expected floor is 9-3 which is the most wins regular-season in school history.
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We could seriously run the table the rest of the way.... BYU in the Championship game? That would be a thriller for just a casual fan!!!
If the Big 12 Championship is ISU-BYU, the national narrative will be ~ look how mid the Big 12 is, Kansas State and Utah couldn't even make the championship game, what a poverty conference.
If the SEC Championship is A&M-LSU, the national narrative will be ~ look how deep the SEC is, Bama and Georgia and Texas couldn't even make the championship game, what a meat grinder.
If the SEC Championship is A&M-LSU, the national narrative will be ~ look how deep the SEC is, Bama and Georgia and Texas couldn't even make the championship game, what a meat grinder.
Iowa State (4-0) 20 - Houston (1-4) 0
Iowa State (5-0) 43 - Baylor (2-4) 21
Iowa State (6-0) 28 - West Virginia 16
UCF (3-3): UCF comes in struggling and it carries over into a black out night game in Ames. Iowa State runs up the score. Iowa State 40 - UCF 14
#20 Texas Tech (7-1): The Red Raiders come into Jack Trice winning 6 games in a row and face a top-10, rested, Cyclones team on homecoming. Iowa State rolls yet again under the lights. Iowa State 34 - Texas Tech 17
@* Kansas (1-7): At the beginning of the year, KU was talked about as a team that's going to compete for a conference title. That has been the opposite as they've looked
Cincinnati (6-3): This is going to be the toughest game on Cincinnati's schedule. Iowa State embarrasses the Bearcats. Iowa State 41 - Cincinnati 17
@ Utah (6-4): After losing Rising for the rest of the year and having lost 3/5 games, Utah gets a top-5 Cyclones team that is firing on all cylinders. I am now changing things up as I've had Iowa State losing this one for the last few weeks. Cyclones continue their undefeated season. Iowa State 24 - Utah 13
#14 Kansas State (9-2): Kansas State comes into Ames at night in a game to go to the Big 12 Championship. No snow in this one, but Iowa State wins in a high scoring back and forth shootout. Iowa State 40 - Kansas State 38
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The team is jelling on offense and the defense starts slow, makes great halftime adjustments and then they go out and shut down the opposing offense the 2nd half.
This team has yet to play great for four quarters on both sides of the ball, the talent is there to do it, we are not relying on just one running back, it more whoever has it tonight is going to get the carries, Becht is really been great the past couple of weeks of taking what the defense gives him, and when he gets someone wide open, he guts them with a strike.
Keep it one game at a time, keep improving each week, and moving up the rankings, and then at the end, see where we are.
This team has yet to play great for four quarters on both sides of the ball, the talent is there to do it, we are not relying on just one running back, it more whoever has it tonight is going to get the carries, Becht is really been great the past couple of weeks of taking what the defense gives him, and when he gets someone wide open, he guts them with a strike.
Keep it one game at a time, keep improving each week, and moving up the rankings, and then at the end, see where we are.
CycloneErik
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Not sure how good we are anymore. We haven't won a game in days.
