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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.
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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.

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South Dakota (0-0, 0-0 MVC)
VS #22 IOWA STATE (1-0, 1-0 BIG 12)
SATURDAY AUGUST 30TH 2:30 P.M. CT
MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium. Ames, IA


TV: FOX
Talent: Tim Brando, pxp Devin Gardner, analyst Josh Sims sideline

Radio: Cyclone Radio Network (Varsity Network)
Talent: John Walters, pxp Eric Heft, analyst Ryan Harklau, sideline

I was given tickets to the iowa game but have no parking. I wanted to explore options

Cyclones take the first set 25-21. Freshman Alea Goolsby led the way with 6 kills and .375 hitting %. Jenna Brandt had 13 assists, and Rachel Van Gorp with 4 digs.

Since Angie didn't have one today, I thought I'd try my first Friday OT. Tell us about your acting experience. Are you a good actor, a terrible actor, were you in school plays, did you ever have any embarrassing experiences on stage? I'll go first.

I'm a terrible actor. I've been in exactly two plays, one as a schoolboy and one as an adult. The one when I was in school was either in my junior year or senior year and we were putting on a play about Stephen Foster, so kind of a musical, kind of not. I played some insubstantial role that could have just as easily been cut from the play and nobody would have been the wiser, but the play's director played it up like it was the pivotal plot point of the whole show. It wasn't.

I had two lines and then we were supposed to walk off stage. It was me and another guy talking to "Stephen Foster." I blew my last line and addressed the other guy talking to Foster as my character's name. It was the last line of my "performance" and I muttered under my breath, "Let's get the "eff" out of here, only I used the real word. I said it under my breath, but I'm sure people in the front row right in front of the stage and maybe a few rows back heard it.

My second role was in a murder mystery as an adult. I was hornswoggled into playing the dead man. I wasn't even part of the community theater, but I knew the director and he begged me to play the part of the murder victim. I had no lines so I couldn't blow this, surely. Wrong. As the curtain rose on the play, I was slumped over a desk in a den, already dead. I even had the foresight to provide myself with a little pillow that was hidden from the audience because I had to lay that way, head on a hard table for about 10 minutes. I learned during rehearsals that it would get painful without the pillow. Try supporting your weight on your head for a while with one arm sprawled on the desk and the other flung over the side of the desk for dramatic effect and you'll see what I mean.

So I'm laying there as the other cast members ... the detective investigating the crime, family members of the victim etc. ... said their lines when all of a sudden, the corpse coughed. It just came on me so suddenly, that I couldn't have suppressed it if I wanted to. The audience tittered and I still had five minutes of playing dead left to go. If they had been paying attention, they could have seen the corpse's face turning red.

So that's my very brief and disastrous career on stage in two of my most embarrassing moments.

I liked @Die4Cy 's idea for consequential figures in ISU history, so I piggybacked off that for this post.

Thread title is self explanatory. Good and bad.

For FB, I'm going with Oklahoma 2017 and Iowa 1998.

BB is a little tougher, probably some games in the 80s for the good, but that was before my time. Hampton 2001 for bad.
For WBB, maybe UConn 1999?

Wrestling, unfortunately have to go with the event of Gable leaving for Iowa.

General: Hiring of Pollard in 05.

Doing the same thing we did last year! If you need a reminder, we will release our pregame show on Thursdays throughout the season. The same show (quite literally the exact same show) will air across CF/CW/Brend socials ahead of kick.

Chris Williams and Jake Brend preview No. 22 Iowa State’s home opener against South Dakota. What to expect from the Cyclones? How the guys expect Iowa State to handle the spot and more. Presented by Channel Seed.

Matt Campbell pipeline is looking goooooood in South Florida. They've gotten better every year and are a hotbed for recruiting. Kinda hoping he sticks around and continues to build that program.

NEW POD!

Jake Brend welcomes Rob Gray and Ben Hutchens to the Northwest Bank Studios to share their views on Iowa State from the beat. Recapping the Kansas State game before previewing South Dakota. What’s Campbell’s deal with the black uniforms? All this and more presented by Kelderman Manufacturing.

Let us know what you think!

Des Moines golfer Mike McCoy made history today becoming the first to ever win both the US Mid-Am and US Senior Am. His son Nate McCoy holds one of the best resumes in ISU golf history.

Also notable that 2 other Des Moines golfers Jon Brown and Gene Elliott made the round of 32. Apparently DSM is the hub for some of the best senior amateur golfers in the country, there is hope for some of us yet!

Happy Friday Eve!

Staff picks are in. Check them out, roast us, agree with us, etc.


Enjoy!

Just saw this in the gameday information. Does anyone have any info on this, or is there a map showing where we will be directed to drive?

Iowa State releases the 2025-26 wrestling schedule with home duals against Iowa, UNI, West Virginia and Missouri.

... https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14EqaEDfw8S/

From a conversation I was having recently, who are the top 5 most consequential figures in ISU athletics, can be good or bad. My list:

1. Jamie Pollard by a mile
2. Matt Campbell
3. Johnny Orr
4. Dan McCarney
5. Fred Hoiberg (combined as coach and player.)

Honorable Mentions: Cael Sanderson in leaving ISU. Brock Purdy becoming the winningest Cyclone and then the face of ISU athletics at the next level. Gordon Eaton, ISU president, for de-emphasizing athletics in the early 80's when all the major branding for television was being formed. Jack Trice--you know why.

Ted Flint, Jake Vos, and Shawtnez dive into the Week One slate and make their picks for the weekend. Presented by Wild Rose Casino and Hotels.

I'm looking for an RV Village pass for the Nov 1st ASU game.
Thanks!

5 days of CFB goodness we get to watch.

Starts off early today at 4:30 pm with Boise State @ USF.

I have a VetMed parking pass this year for the first time and I am still over in Europe from the Ireland game. For the SD game I gave my parking pass and game tickets to my MIL to attend. Does anyone know if she will have a guaranteed parking spot in VetMed or do they over sell and cut off people once the lot is full? She won’t come early to tailgate prior to the game and I am not confident in her ability to find a spot if she is turned away.

On a Wednesday edition of the Daily Clone, Jake Brend takes a deep dive into South Dakota quarterback and former Cyclone Aidan Bouman. Hear what Matt Campbell, Jon Heacock, Jeremiah Cooper and Kooper Ebel had to say about preparing for Bouman. Plus, find out all 15 Cyclones that have landed on NFL rosters.

Presented by Fareway Meat & Grocery in the Northwest Bank Studios.

Chris Williams and Brent Blum discuss Iowa State's matchup with South Dakota before touching on Farmageddon. The Big 12 has the opportunity to prove itself this weekend. Can they do it? All this and more presented by Mechdyne.

Enjoy!