It's been 5 years and 2 months since Iowa State football has last played in a contest that proceeded to go into overtime (the ugly 29-26 triple OT win against upset minded Northern Iowa, a game and season a lot of us had much higher aspirations for).
That's 1,888 days, or 45,312 hours, or 2,718,720 minutes, for those who were wondering. Even though the 2019 season certainly didn't match the hype, it was still a winning season (and at ISU are we really gonna b*tch to bad about a record above .500?) Well we should! Campbell has elevated Cyclone Nation to a whole new level. For goodness sake we are 7-0 and tied for #11 in the country! Never thought I'd actually be able to write that sentence! Before Matt & Co. the Cyclones have managed just a solitary week inside the AP Poll top-10. Campbell has coached ISU in the top-10 for seven weeks. Before 2017 the program was ranked in the top-25 a total of just 40 times (in 81 years)! In the 8 seasons that have followed ISU has managed to almost match that total (38 weeks). That is, in a word, extraordinary. It is a truly an amazing time to be a Cyclone.
There are only 10 FBS teams that have gone longer without an OT game:
Hawaii (2018)
Ohio St. (2018)
Texas A&M (2018)
Iowa (2017)
UCF (2017)
South Florida (2016)
Arizona St. (2015)
Troy (2015)
Louisville (2013)
And the team with the longest current drought between OT games is....
UConn (11-24-12). Mostly because the Huskies have had a horrendous program, and they also canceled the 2019 season for something called Covid?? Anywho happy Halloween, see yall on Saturday!
That's 1,888 days, or 45,312 hours, or 2,718,720 minutes, for those who were wondering. Even though the 2019 season certainly didn't match the hype, it was still a winning season (and at ISU are we really gonna b*tch to bad about a record above .500?) Well we should! Campbell has elevated Cyclone Nation to a whole new level. For goodness sake we are 7-0 and tied for #11 in the country! Never thought I'd actually be able to write that sentence! Before Matt & Co. the Cyclones have managed just a solitary week inside the AP Poll top-10. Campbell has coached ISU in the top-10 for seven weeks. Before 2017 the program was ranked in the top-25 a total of just 40 times (in 81 years)! In the 8 seasons that have followed ISU has managed to almost match that total (38 weeks). That is, in a word, extraordinary. It is a truly an amazing time to be a Cyclone.
There are only 10 FBS teams that have gone longer without an OT game:
Hawaii (2018)
Ohio St. (2018)
Texas A&M (2018)
Iowa (2017)
UCF (2017)
South Florida (2016)
Arizona St. (2015)
Troy (2015)
Louisville (2013)
And the team with the longest current drought between OT games is....
UConn (11-24-12). Mostly because the Huskies have had a horrendous program, and they also canceled the 2019 season for something called Covid?? Anywho happy Halloween, see yall on Saturday!
