As the Big 12 fights for multiple teams in the College Football Playoff, No. 11 BYU hits the road against Cincinnati to try and stay alive for the Big 12 Championship.

Derek Duke breaks down the full slate in this week's Big 12 Buzz.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/big-12-buzz-byus-title-hopes-on-the-line-in-cincinnati/

Looks like the farm bureau might have been committing fraud across the state... and fired the investigators tasked in keeping them clean...



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Chris Williams and Brent Blum discuss Iowa State Football's game against Kansas this weekend before diving into Kenny Dillingham's comments about NIL, the Big 12, mailbag questions, and story time. Presented by Mechdyne!

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A thread of funny, serious, appropriate or whatever signs.

I'll start . . . .

The No. 12 Iowa State Cyclones hit the road for the first time this season on Thursday for an in-state game against Drake.

Watch everything Bill Fennelly, Jada Williams and Reagan Wilson had to say about the matchup. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/...lliams-and-reagan-wilson-ahead-of-drake-game/

After a historic week of averaging 31 points per game on 84% shooting, Audi Crooks is bringing home some well-deserved hardware.

Crooks is the AP National Player of the Week. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/crooks-sweeps-weekly-honors-with-ap-and-big-12-awards/

On Tuesday's Daily Clone, Jake Brend reports from Tuesday's Iowa State football availability with an injury update. Taylor Mouser talks about how getting over the hump against TCU provided much-needed momentum for the offense and Matt Campbell shares how Rocco Becht is battling against the odds.

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Ahead of senior day against Kansas, watch everything Matt Campbell, Taylor Mouser and players said at Tuesday's press conference.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/...yers-said-ahead-of-senior-day-against-kansas/

So my eccentric neighbor mulched his leaves between our houses yesterday. I had mulched and bagged the leaves a couple of times the last couple of weeks in the same area.

After it rains last night, he decides this morning to rake the leaves away from his house and mulch them and left me with this, which doesn’t cover all his mess. He made no effort to clean up after his mess. The property line is where the white fence and chain link fence meet. Do I have a right to be upset? The guy is a social introvert. He will never look at you when he talks to you. I took my leaf blower and blew the wet mess he left me back at his house. I’ve helped he and his wife countless times and he never says thanks or anything. She does, but he won’t. I mow a few yards during the summer and I’ll always blow the grass off their sidewalks and driveways. Rant over!

I got voluntold to cook the turkey this year for Thanksgiving. Normally I spatchcock and cook at a fairly high temp and am successful. I've been seeing some feeds of people doing it differently. I've heard the term frogging, but really it looks more more like the Battlestar Galactica Colonial Cylon Raider to me. Has anyone done it that way? I assume it's as successful as spatchcocking, I really just wanted to use the term spatchcock on Cyclonefanatic.com.




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I refuse to name this thread 'bracketology' because it implies it's Lunardi and Palm, and it's not. And if there is already a general bracket prediction thread for this season, feel free to move this! NOTE: This isn't a thread about metrics and NET etc (those threads are amazing FYI), this is just thread about where pundits have the bracket shaping up on a weekly basis.

I'm guilty of posting Lunardi and Palm and their brackets, but they are seriously very bad at it. Anyone can add their updates here, I just hope everyone knows how bad they are at this...

Here are the some of the ones to pay attention to (per @NiceMarmot a year or two ago!):

1. Dave Ommen at Bracketville
2. Lukas Harkins at HeatCheckCBB
3. Delphi Bracketology
4. Rocco Miller at Bracketeer
5. Bauertology (really good at explaining why teams are where they are)
6. T3
7. Five Star
8. NKY

If there are others you like to follow every week, feel free to link in a response!

NOTE: Edited and added BRACKET MATRIX link as it's always one that people ask about.

The phrase "Hilton Magic" has lost its luster. When I hear the phrase "let the magic begin" before starting lineups from the PA announcer, or the students chanting "Hilton Magic" in a game vs Stonehill College, the phrase has lost all meaning. Hilton Magic hasn't always been an overused marketing ploy, it was something we knew was happening when we felt it (and caused it) and didn't have to say a word about it. We knew what it was, but it was too loud in there to even utter the words.

Hilton Magic isn't just "oooh, Hilton is loud when we're good and up 20." Its being down 20 points in the second half vs Iowa or Oklahoma in 2015, or BYU in 2024, and the crowd willing a team to victory from almost guaranteed defeat. Its being down six with 50 seconds left against Oklahoma State in 2012 and winning by three in regulation. Its Barry Stevens hitting a game winner against #3 Missouri in 1983 when the program had barely registered a pulse for decades prior.

When every marketing piece has "Hilton Magic" scribbled all over it, when the videoboard has a sign that says it, when the PA guy proclaims it every pregame as though we need it to beat bad teams... its lost its meaning. Hilton Magic is a great thing when we actually know what it is, and what it isn't.

Dylan Coon and Nigel Dyson quickly recap Iowa State’s dominant win against Stonehill. Just how good are Tamin Lipey and Joshua Jefferson? Taking a look at the Cyclone recruiting class, Iowa State’s trip to Las Vegas, and more.

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I had heard some time ago they were going to turn The Adventures of Dunk and Egg into a show, and it looks like it's coming out this January. Cool, new GoT series to watch to start the year!


I guess I am way behind since they released a trailer last month. Lol!

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Fanatic Book Series: Author Chris Williams is joined by editor Rob Gray and Jake Brend to discuss their favorite chapters in 'Fanatic.' Relive the 2013 BYU game, the invention of the 3-3-5 and how Otzelberger met McDermott. Preorder at FanaticBook.com.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/podcasts...the-2013-byu-game-invention-of-3-3-5-defense/

No. 16 Iowa State advanced to 4-0 with a 39-point win over Stonehill College.

Watch everything T.J. Otzelberger, Tamin Lipsey and Joshua Jefferson had to say about the win and the duo's big night.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/...sey-and-joshua-jefferson-after-stonehill-win/

Seniors Tamin Lipsey and Joshua Jefferson shined with 23 apiece in No. 16 Iowa State's 96-57 win over Stonehill College. As Lipsey and Jefferson continue their All-American type start to the season, watch Jake Brend's full report below.

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On Monday's Daily Clone, T.J. Otzelberger shares why he's played a 10 man rotation so far and why it could stick, Addy Brown talks about her first career triple-double, Brock Purdy shines in his first game back from injury and Chris Williams shares one of his favorite stories in his new book 'Fanatic.' All of that and more with Jake Brend.

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