Got posts going in the season thread on our ranking so I'd start a polling thread for future polling now that the first "official" poll is out. We can talk about overall ranking of teams/conferences etc along with updating our own ranking by week.

AP's Preseason Women's Basketball Poll

Others receiving votes: Washington 79, Ohio State 46, West Virginia 17, Princeton 17, Minnesota 15, Kansas State 15, Kansas 7, Stanford 3, South Dakota State 3, Illinois 2, Nebraska 2, Columbia 2.

Hadn't seen this until today. Let me know if it was posted somewhere else.

Has "INTRAMURALS" on the red letter I on front and "WARD" on the back.

On Tuesday's Daily Clone with Jake Brend, T.J. Otzelberger explains how Nate Heise has stepped up in fall practices as a leader, Heise talks about his confidence from three heading into 2025-26. Then Otzelberger says what makes Blake Buchanan a good in Ames and talks about how Friday's exhibition will be good for the team.

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The Cyclones head to Omaha for their first exhibition of the season on Friday night to take on Creighton.

Jackson Pence has the full rundown of Creighton's roster what to look for on Friday. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/10/...aha-for-exhibition-test-against-the-bluejays/

3 Games on Tuesday Night:



2 Games on Wednesday Night:



1 Thursday Night:



4 on Friday Night (3 of which are Power 4):



Not the best but also not a terrible Saturday slate:

Full Schedule: https://lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

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.

Looking for 4 great lower level tickets! Thanks and go Cyclones.

Looking for RV Village spot for BYU game.

On Monday's edition of the Daily Clone, Jake Brend shows how Matt Campbell and Rocco Becht are responding to the loss by taking accountability. As the football team moves into a bye, Brend takes a look at basketball season and explains the importance of the two-man game development between Milan Momcilovic and Joshua Jefferson and what areas those two are emphasizing heading into the team. Plus, Curtis Jones has a breakout in the NBA preseason.

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6 Big 12 teams in it.

Saturday, Oct. 25
11:00 (TNT) - *Kansas State at Kansas
2:30 (FOX) - *BYU at Iowa State
3:00 (ESPN2 or ESPNU) - *Baylor at Cincinnati
3:00 (ESPN2 or ESPNU) - *Oklahoma State at Texas Tech
5:00 (ESPN+) - *TCU at West Virginia
7:00 (ESPN2 or ESPNU) - *Houston at Arizona State
9:15 (ESPN) - *Colorado at Utah


open: Arizona, Florida Tech

Iowa State made a mess in Boulder with their second straight loss of the season.

That leaves the Cyclones with plenty of soul searching heading into the bye, as Andrew Harrington writes in this week’s Monday Musings.

Jacqueline Cordova, Colin Newell, Jake Remsburg, and Jirehl Brock react to Iowa State’s loss to Colorado. Where do the Cyclones go from here? Breaking down the rest of the season and more, presented by Wyffels Hybrids.

4 gone were are down to 87.

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!

Chris Williams and Brent Blum dissect Iowa State’s road loss at Colorado. Why is the offense continuously stalling out in the red zone? Is it fixable? Guessing the point spreads. Reacting to Penn State firing James Franklin and more. Presented by Mechdyne.

Iowa State earned a commitment from 2026 three-star quarterback Kase Evans Sunday afternoon.

Football bye week, so I want something to talk about. I'm excited to see how the young guards and transfers look. I'll be interested to see how Milan hunts more 3's like the coaches have been preaching to him, and how Buchanan looks at the 5.

Will we have a radio call for this game? I probably wont be paying Creighton the $8.00 to watch it.

Im sure there'll be plenty of blight and rot discussion. Im looking ahead.

Time to move forward.
Let’s start with the rotation.
Current projected rotation and years of control

Taillon 26/ $18 mil
Boyd 26/ $17 mill 27/ mutual option
Imanaga complicated but longest iption
26/ $20 mil 27/ $20 mil 28/ $17
Steele 26/ Arb 27/ Arb
Horton still pre Arb

6. Assad 3 yrs Arb
AAA Wiggins
Rea UFA

First I included Rea because he wants to be here and if he’s your 5th you’re pretty good.

Taillon is the guy I look to move in the offseason. He’s in his final year and it’s reasonable at $18m. This puts small markets in play. I just believe he has good value and Rea can give you similar results. I’d like to see us sign Rea to a shorter multi year with team options in 27 and 28.

Assad as your six gives you a swing guy with middle of the rotation ability.

Horton he’s a one/two starter hopefully for the next ten years.

Wiggins should be the guy at AAA. He was a top 10 draft pick that got hurt and we stole in the second. Hopefully the other half of a one two with Horton for years to come.

Steele man I hope he can come back strong. I’m sure they’ll know that before spring training. If he isn’t I think we are looking for ace but end up with a middle rotation guy.

Boyd so happy for this guy and ecstatic he’s back.

Finally Shota. Something needs to change to get him back to dominant which he was in 24. I think it starts with the fastball. Maybe he goes through the offseason program designed to find gas. He needs to be around 93 not 90.

Throw ins
Wicks personally I’m done with this guy. Make him an inning eater at Iowa so you can work the real prospects exactly how you want.

Brown I’d hate to give up on that type of stuff. Just look at Palencia. But I think you commit to being a one inning reliever not bouncing back and forth. If you do that up tick guys get probably lets him touch 100 consistently.

Coby Merrill , ISU heavyweight commitment, defeats Michael Mocco, IA commit last night at the Who's #1 meet 4-1. We are going to be loaded at heavyweight for a very long time. Dresser and staff filling our lineups with quality wrestlers.