Giddy up - Season opener is this Friday!

I have full video from today's media availability with Kevin Dresser, Connor Euton and Rocky Elam.

I also did have the time today to write out a few quotes from the interviews that I thought were worth highlighting for those of you who prefer to read over watch! I didn't do the entire interviews but I think you guys will like this format!

I also added the projected ISU lineup at the end of the story. During availability, Rocky did make it seem pretty clear that he won't be wrestling this weekend and will be focusing on the Cy-Hawk on Nov. 30.

I will be there Friday taking photos and doing my usual coverage! Looking forward to it.

Enjoy!

Akron just pulled off a sweet onside kick:

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How is no one talking about this new series?! They’ve dropped two eps and it’s bonkers in a crazy good way.

On Tuesday's Daily Clone, Jake Brend dives into Blake Buchanan's breakout performance against Mississippi State, Tamin Lipsey shares what impresses him about the freshmen and Mississippi State head coach Chris Jans talks about what makes Iowa State so hard to prepare for.
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Right now I think this is a fair assessment of where the team is this early in the season. I really want us to host this year!

Iowa State University names David Cook their 17th president.

Learn more about the Ames native and Iowa State graduate below. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2025/11/iowa-state-names-david-cook-new-president/

Should do well for the University and it is nice he has experience as a President already.

My CF app stopped working so I deleted and went to reload in app store but it is not there anymore? Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have a bit of cabin fever waiting for my new gig to start so just bear with me on my off topic threads a bit.

I'm curious how people would rank some of the top film directors of all time. I'll do a post every couple of days with a new director. Starting off with Spielberg. As a refresher, below is a list of his feature films he directed. Top 5 only! This is actually hard as sh!t.

The Sugarland Express
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1941
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The Color Purple
Empire of the Sun
Indiana Jones and Last Crusade
Always
Hook
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
A.I.
Minority Report
Catch Me If You Can
The Terminal
War of the Worlds
Munich
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Adventures of TinTin
War Horse
Lincoln
Bridge of Spies
The BFG
The Post
Ready Player One
West Side Story
The Fabelmans

We bought tix through AXS for both session 1 and session 3 for the upcoming Las Vegas tourney. The session 3 tix did not show up in their app. Now my account is locked and their (AXS) customer services is basically non-existent.

Anyone else having problems?

Hope to see a bunch of Cyclones there!

Is Gabe Burkle's injury known? I'm guessing knee ligament and out for season, but curious if anything is known.

Supposedly, we got an email on Nov 7 telling us how. Don’t bother looking for the email. I just did it and it takes about a minute. Fortunately, my iPad saved my password so I didn’t have to struggle with that.

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Suffocating defense, Tamin Lipsey's career-night and freshmen showing out are just a few reasons No. 16 Iowa State dominated Mississippi State, 96-80. Watch Jake Brend's report on Iowa State showing the world how many different ways they can win at the link below.

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Chris Williams reacts to No. 16 Iowa State’s 96-80 win over Mississippi State.

Enjoy!

I've chatted with a few of you and decided to post up some "way too early" impressions of what we are seeing in this year's women's team. I'll try to follow up with more as the season goes on. I'd love to see responses to the same questions posed in this TWS!

Hey great win by the team. Good season so far. Always appreciate it when adversity reveals character. The yellow pants & Cyclones script got me thinking again. Again, kudos to all involved in AD & licensing for loosening the reigns a bit to allow more vintage stuff on uniforms. Secondary logos show confidence in the strong I-State branding and creates new opps to catch eyeballs.

On bluesky last week I saw a post by Homefield announcing their new retro jacket collection. There are 66 schools participating. Here's ISU:


See the large vintage stamp branding on the front? Eyeballing it, looks like it takes up about 10% of logo visual weight. Simply can't miss it. I looked at all other 65 jackets. The schools that only use a tiny barely visible TM or C mark are:

Bama, ASU, AZ, Ark, UA, Bay, Cal, Cin, Clemson, CU, Duke, UF, FSU, UGA, GT, ILL, UI, Iowa, KU, KSU, UK, Lou, LSU, MD, Miami, MSU, UM, MN, MSU, Miz, NCSU, Neb, UNC, NW, ND, OSU, OU, OSU, Miss, UO, OSU, PSU, Pitt, Pur, Rutgers, SCar, Syr, TCU, Ten, A&M, Tex, TT, Tulane, UCF, UCLA, UConn, USC, Utah, Vandy, VA, VT, UW, WSU, WVU, Wisc

Here are the schools that require a large licensing stamp:

ISU

Since there is absolutely positively nothing serious going on in the world at all, I'm begging ISU to please put the kibosh on vintage stamp requirements. This may be a minor thing, but I can't sleep at night. Thank you

New Euro pipeline?

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Gets the culture TJ wants.

He has a message for Iowa State fans.

“Cyclone fans are used to a winning culture the last 5 years and I want to only add to that. I’m not from the U.S, I’m from France so I’m still learning the system of the NCAA but one thing I learned fast is that Iowa State an incredible fan base, that was obvious on the visit. Their energy and enthusiasm was amazing to see.”

As of today 11/10, TJ is sitting at 97 win and 45 loses at Iowa State, just 3 wins away from reaching the 100 wins mark. Fred reached 100 with a 100-48 record. With the remaining schedule we have the next couple of weeks, does TJ beat the mark set by Fred?

Remaining schedule
11/10 Mississippi State
11/17 Stonehill College

Players Era Tournament
11/24 St John's
11/25 Creighton
+1 extra game

12/3 Alcorn State
12/6 Purdue

Jacqueline Cordova, Jake Remsburg, and Jirehl Brock react to Iowa State snapping its 4-game losing streak in a win against TCU. Does this change the season outlook? Aiden Flora’s moment. Defense played its best game of the year and more. Presented by Wyffels Hybrids.

Enjoy!

Today marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. Obviously most know the famous song which thankfully I got to see Gordon sing in person before he passed, but story has fascinated me as much as Titanic does.

Both were state of the art ships and manned by famous captains, but with the Edmund Fitzgerald there were no survivors so what caused it is still debated today.

Below is the song and a documentary about the ship.

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