By Steve DeaceEach year I begin my rankings by giving each team’s talent a win range within two games. Teams with returning quality upperclassmen starting quarterbacks are then given a bonus win. From there I factor in each team’s schedule game-by-game to compi...
With fall camp beginning in just days, Tim Sitzmann from Mr. Bi Clothing and I keep on chucking through the 2013 Iowa State football schedule today with our picks. Up today is Mike Gundy and the Oklahoma State Cowboys. The last time OSU came to down, the Cyclones pu...
Iowa State’s senior running back Jeff Woody is one heck of a storyteller. Here's a good one from Iowa State’s appearance at the Big 12’s annual media day event in Dallas last week.“We were sitting down with Coach Rhoads at lunch and he goes, ‘This has b...
By Steve Deace The Great DebateSettling the annual argument about conference supremacy.1. SEC…Favored to make it 8 consecutive national championships.2. Big 12…Nabs the runner-up spot because its second division is stronger.3. Big Ten…Look for a bounce-back year for...
Iowa Western Community College transfer Rodney Coe originally committed to the University of Iowa as a running back in college football’s class of 2011.A running back. Coe eventually ended up in Council Bluffs as a defensive end. That is when Iowa State, among others, got hot on his trial. “I went through there with Luke Wel...
It's been a while since my good pal Brent Blum stopped by the home office to record a podcast. In today's installment of the Channel Seed Podcast, Blum criticizes my recent Iowa State/Big 12 football predictions. Plus, we take fan questions from Twitter and more. En...
You know in June, it is easy to pick a team you like the most for the upcoming Big 12 football season and crown that program as the league’s future champ. It also isn’t very hard to say, “I like so and so to finish fourth, these guys and sixth and that te...
By Steve DeacePredicting the top 25 things that will or won’t happen this season...1. There will be no undefeated teams in college football this season.2. Not only will reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel not repeat, but he won’t even be one of th...
With fall camp beginning in exactly one week, I figured now is as good of a time as ever to roll out predictions for the 2013 Iowa State football season. While preparing to write this installment of Monday Musings, I came up with one very simple observation ab...
Today's question is simple. What would make 2013 a successful season for the Iowa State football program? CF asked three Cyclones this question at the Big 12's media day earlier this week. Watch and see what they had to say.