Rocco was scrambling all night, trying to avoid sacks, kept him from seeing some open targets, and certainly contributed to his 2 pick 6s. Wonder if Stevo Klotz and Carsen Hanson being dinged up was a cause. I have seen both pick up blitzers in the past and protect Rocco, Carson being out for almost 3 quarters and Rocco was running everywhere! to escape the rush.
*** Official UCF vs #9 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***
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I'm really worried about how many guys we have that are hurt, banged up, etc...Max effort from the walk-ons is great and all, but it won't carry the day in the biggest games a month from now. Gotta get some of these kids healthy over the next 3 weeks or so, definitely by the time we go to SLC.
Enjoying this historic start for our team and acknowledging that our best win is against a 4-2 Iowa team are not mutually exclusive.
I don’t think it’s outrageous to wonder how we’d match up against a team like Alabama or Tennessee
Going from the end of Rocctober into Noelvember.
Saying there are 15-20 teams better than us is not "wondering how we'd match up against Alabama or Tennessee"... it's saying teams like Boise St and SMU are better than us, as well as teams like Missouri, Ole Miss, Pittsburgh, Illinois, etc.
And yeah - in this year I think there's a good discussion to be had if ISU could compete with Alabama... because Alabama is NOT a good football team.
I think some are making this game way more complicated than it needs to be. Will our D give up more yards against the run? Yep. And tonight we gave up some explosive plays in that area. But if we don't gift 2 defensive scores to UCF we win this game going away even with those big run plays. The offensive miscues were what made this a game.
I thought UCF should have ran the ball on 3rd down, then again on 4th down vs punting since ISU needed TD not a FG. Glad they didn't. And punting into endzone was break to start that drive.
Good to see the students and fans having a good time. A season to remember so far!
O-line didn't exactly have their best game, but we weren't great in a lot of phases.
But, like good teams do, we found a way to get the W. All great seasons will have a game like this, where you play like crap, probably should lose, but find a way to win.
Agree completely.
We gutted this out but Becht and the receivers just weren’t making the plays they typically do. Nothing that looked egregious, but balls that could be caught weren’t, and several times Becht overthrew open receivers.
All that said, what a weird game to complain about offense when we gained 530 yards. The second near-pick 6 really stands out - the ball could’ve been caught by the WR, and even if it wasn’t, what terrible luck to have it popped up right to the DB.
Its Destiny they will end up playing KSU 3 times in a row. Like playing Memphis in the Memphis bowl. Just makes me wanna puke.
From our seats, appears to be an ankle. They were working on it in The second half.
The inconsistencies of refs are enough to make you scream. You see all kinds of celebrations now and refs just ignore them. Then Rocco just screams toward the end zone and almost draws a flag. Remember years ago, Austen Arnaud scored, pointed up to God, tossed the ball to the ref, 15 yard penalty. Or Xavier Hutchinson when he just altered his steps as he entered the end zone, 15 yards AND negate the touchdown.
Yeah that ref last night really looked like he was wanting to object to something, anything.
The Hind judge kept staring at the students and cheer squad. You know he only cares about pulling a check. It’s the guy who kept messing up spots on fair catches and other things.
I'm thankful we had all of our time outs. I used to get so frustrated watching us burn time outs earlier in the half when behind in football games. By saving them for when we needed them, it allowed us enough time to get the ball back and get that score.
Exactly how I predicted!
I have no problem with the spike. Needed to gather the team and we had 3 plays to get the 1st down.
Glad we have a bye cause we are banged up.
