I think ALL of the national press is going to be focused on Skattebo vs ISU's "poor rush defense." But I am not afraid of their rush game. They are the 4th best rushing team in conference. We played the 3 teams better than them and went 2-1 (the one being Kansas). We've played 7 of the top 9 rushing teams and went 6-2 (we are number 8). And we were at peak injury during those two losses. And in one of those losses we were leading with a minute to play. So a big rushing attack is something we've been dealing with, and winning against, all year.
Their defense is fine but not as good as ours. They played a few more bad conference teams than we did. Okie State and Arizona are on a different level of bad than UCF and Utah. They played UCF tight like we did, and lost to Cincinnati.
I like ISU's chances in this game.