Notes from Iowa State’s 52-7 win over Arkansas State, including Darien Porter’s fourth career blocked punt and a bit of trickery from the offense.
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Notes from Iowa State’s 52-7 win over Arkansas State, including Darien Porter’s fourth career blocked punt and a bit of trickery from the offense.
Gaping holes opened up. Carson Hansen dodged and darted through them. Iowa State’s powerful tailback then bulldozed any resistance Arkansas State attempted to muster, surging for two touchdowns in the No. 20 Cyclones’ dominant 52-7 win Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium.
Iowa State returns from its bye week Saturday with a nonconference game against Arkansas State at Jack Trice Stadium. Here’s what you need to know.
Matt Campbell yearned to pay homage to what Dan McCarney had done to turn around a forlorn Iowa State program before — and he’s humbled to be approaching McCarney’s 18-year-old school wins record in just his ninth season at the helm.
Here are three keys and a score prediction for Iowa State football against Arkansas State. If the Cyclones truly are Big 12 championship contenders, they’ll be sharp on Saturday in advance of that nine-game conference slate.
The Gazette’s Pick ‘Ems for Week 4 of the 2024 college football season, including the battle for Floyd of Rosedale between Iowa and Minnesota on Saturday night.
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Blink and you’ll miss them. Arkansas State’s offense — which 20th-ranked Iowa State will face Saturday — moves at such a brisk pace, the term “tempo” seems an inadequate description.
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Glee will reign supreme in Iowa City if Hawkeyes respond to deflating home loss to Cyclones the way they did on their way to an unbeaten Big Ten season in 2002
A second-half surge leading to a 20-19 win at No. 21 Iowa should send Iowa State into its first bye week of the season with bolstered confidence and even higher expectations.
How did Iowa lose a 13-point halftime lead? How did Iowa State rally from a scoreless first half? And what does the Cyclones’ 20-19 win tell us about the rest of the season? We break down the Cy-Hawk game on this episode of The Final Score podcast.
Iowa State didn’t accept a possibility of a total cave-in, digging itself from a 13-0 hole and leaving Iowa on the rocks.
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