Saturday, Nov. 1
3:00 (ESPN+) - *Oklahoma State at Kansas

*Arizona at Colorado
*Arizona State at Iowa State
*UCF at Baylor
*Cincinnati at Utah
*West Virginia at Houston
*Texas Tech at Kansas State

open: BYU, TCU

Below are the rules.

Pick a team you think will win that weeks game. Pick only 1 team per week.
Don't pm me the pick, post on here you pick.
You can only pick that team ONCE the entire time you are in the game.
The goal is to advance and be the last person standing.
You have till the start of the last game of week 1 to enter.
You have up until the start time of the game you picked to switch When making a switch please edit your original pick post. If you make a second post I will take that as your switching picks.
If your team loses, you are out for the competition.
If you skip a week of picks, you are out.
You can switch as many times up until the game you have picked officially starts.
If you have questions, pm me
Post 2 of the thread will have the possible games you can pick.
Post 3 of the thread will have players left and who they have picked.

Chris Williams & Brent Blum react to all of the big news from college football coach firings this weekend and how it could impact Iowa State. Jake Brend stops in to break down what he saw from the men’s basketball team in its scrimmage at Creighton. We guess the point spreads, talk about the Big 12 football title game picture and more, courtesy of Mechdyne.

On the plus side they don’t have ISU in the godforsaken Liberty Bowl again! Lol

A reminder regarding tiebreaker points: If your team wins and covers you gain an extra bonus point. If you take a undefeated team who is the underdog you gain the point for them covering plus another bonus point. As the season goes on the number of teams undefeated being a underdog greatly diminish so take advantage while you can.

Taking a double digit underdog who wins gets you 3 bonus points

3 teams plays 2 FBS in this time period Fresno St. Hawaii and and Sam Houston State. If you take them before their first game they will need to win twice for you to advance.


I will be using ESPN's Lines. Line will be the line at kickoff for tiebreaker points.


Bringing back the reward for top finisher other than bragging rights. Since this is a contest on Cyclone Fanatic I like the idea of the reward going back to helping ISU athletics.
For the top 3 CYCLONE Fan finishers (Hawks fans are as always are welcome to play but this is a contest on a Cyclone fan board) I will donate $75, $50 and $25 to @brentblum and We Will on your behalf.

Rules/How to Play if you are new:
Pick a team you think will win that weeks game. Pick only 1 team per week.
Post your pick in the thread, do NOT pm it to me
You can only pick that team ONCE the entire time you are in the game.
The goal is to advance and be the last person standing.
Only games that have a FBS school facing another FBS school are eligible to be picked.
You have up until the start time of the game you picked to switch.
Please if you are changing your pick edit your original post.
If your team loses, you are out for the competition.
If you skip a week of picks, you are out.
You can switch as many times up until the game you have picked officially starts.
Post 2 of the thread will have the possible games you can pick.
Post 3 will have each player and their previous week's picks.
You can only pick teams that are undefeated (they will be bolded).
You can't join in during the middle of the season.
Please include prior weeks picks with your pick for the week.
Have any questions, pm me or ask in the thread. Thanks!

Big DL, emerging late.

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Fresh Randy Peterson column for your Sunday! Enjoy!

Alright time to end this losing streak! Have a great opportunity to face an undefeated #11 ranked team coming into Jack Trice. Do like the spot for the Cyclones coming off a bye and having 2 weeks to prepare/heal up for the Cougars. BYU coming off a win versus their biggest rival/national spotlight with Big Noon Kickoff on campus, etc. Letdown spot for them?

TV: 2:30 pm on FOX

FanDuel & DraftKings both currently have us as a 2.5 point favorite.

Weather Forecast 5 days out: Mostly Cloudy, High of 60 degrees & a 12 mph SE Wind:

Several former Sisters are in the coaching ranks:
Heather Ezell - head coach Wyoming
Emily Durr - Asst Coach Illinois
Emily Ryan - Grad Asst Coach Iowa State
Anne O’Neil - Coach in the Unrivaled league
Katie Robinette Koch - Carroll High School
Amanda Nisleit - was a high school and Christian school coach
Alison Lacey - former juco coach
Tocarra Ross - Asst Coach Central Michigan
Kelsey Bolte - Dir of Basketball Operations Drake University
Jocelyn Anderson - Head Coach DMACC


Are there others anyone is aware of?

After b!tching and moaning the past two days about how the whole conference is out to get them because they got told they can't throw tortillas into the field during a live game and that they should just accept the phantom SEC offer they hilariously think they have it's just nice to see karma work every once in a while.

Just say no to going 6-0 with a oil sugar daddy. It's a gateway drug to thinking you're hot sh!t Texas lite.

Looking to buy a GA grass lot pass. Don’t feel like spending 4 times what they’re worth on Ticketmaster

cameras always on.

Does the team have any updates on a bye week? Lots of guys out already, and I'm sure there are plenty of guys that are playing hurt,like Big Citrus. Feels like the team is just out of sorts right now.

Iowa State head coach T.J. Otzelberger, senior forward Joshua Jefferson and senior guard Dominick Nelson met the media following Iowa State's exhibition loss to Creighton to discuss what went wrong in the first half and what takeaways the team has from the second. Watch the full press conference below.
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Was thinking about the team and the upcoming season this morning and had a thought…

Iowa State's exhibition against Creighton ends in a 71-58 loss. Below, watch Jake Brend's full recap and highlights from the CHI Health Center.


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The first Black Phone is actually quite good. This one however is a piece of ****. Do not see it. I went with six friends and three of them left early they hated it so much.

You’ve been warned.

First he summits then he skis down the North Face. Crazy.

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Ted Flint, Jake Vos, and Shawntez make their Week 8 picks across college football! Presented by Wild Rose Casinos.

ISOF
International Society of Flatworkers

Flatwork is what a retired man does during the day. What he does is to lay down and closes his eyes for a while.

While in Sweden, my brother in law, Jay Stackhouse said when he retired that his brother, John told of the need to do flatwork. Jay asked what is flatwork is and John explained it to him. We then decided that there needs to be a group to pass this very important message. So we came up with the name Society of Flatworkers (SOF). My wife’s second cousin Håkan Olsson was listening to us and wanted to join, hence the International Society of Flatworks (ISOF) was born.

John Stackhouse discovered the idea of flatwork when retiring in 2020 during the Covid pandemic. Just like law of gravity was always there, Newton discovered how to explained the idea. Flatwork has always existed.

Rule#1- There are no meetings or fees and the only requirement is to try to do flatwork, daily .
#2- There are no more rules.

Member since 20xx (year of retirement)

1st Letter to the Swedes on Flatwork Proverbs (while we were exiled in Denmark, we flew out out Copenhagen)

1-It is never too early in the day to do flatwork.
2-If flatwork is not possible, try to do benchwork.
3-Flatworkers do not go on vacation, they go on trips.
4-Women take naps, men do flatwork.
5-Quoting Winston Churchill: Conservation of energy, why stand when you can sit, and why sit when you can lay down.

2nd letter to the Swedes

1-A good flatworker makes the bed so that he has accomplished something for the day.
2-Watching sports especially golf, soccerball, or NASCAR on TV helps the mood for benchwork.
3-It is good to do flatwork after doing yard work.

FIT (Flatworkers In Training)-For those men who have not yet retired.

I don't know about you, but I'm getting excited for the Basketball season. In fact I put together a little 12 question quiz to take to see if you know your knowledge. If you don't at least get 10 out of 12 you need to do your Iowa State homework. Lol. Click here.