Arizona State Matchup

K-State couldn't do anything in the fourth quarter. Our defense is playing the best it has all season (especially run defense). If Rocco plays decent, we win.
Agreed. Rylan Barnes absolutely earned himself a scholarship for next season for stepping in admirably, but it's good to have Will McLaughlin and others back at LB.
 
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I'll say this, I feel like this is a massively better matchup for Iowa State than the last time we played in the Championship game.
If you rewatch that game, Lincoln Riley kept us in that game in the 2nd half. Absolutely gutless playcalling. We almost made him pay
 
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The snap on that missed 30 yarder was really bad. Because it was so high I’m guessing the snap was late getting down and the that’s why it was pushed right.

Long snapping has been a problem on FGs and XPs all year.
I think you're confusing it with an earlier kick that was good. Snap and hold looked fine on the last FG, just chunked it.
 
The knob-slobbing of ASU by the national media would make a dub pretty tasty.
The Cover 3 podcast is one of the best out there, but it was frustrating listen to them recap the weekend. Fornelli would rather whine about his beloved Illini, and Bud Elliott won't give up on UCF being the premier program of the Big 12. He's been sour about Iowa State the whole back half of the season. Chip Patterson finally brings up our win and what it meant with 3 minutes left in the pod, and the other three hosts literally say nothing.
 
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Is anyone else kind of jacked for an 11 AM kick?
I think it was originally meant as a slight to the Big 12 to put our championship first on championship Saturday, but it's actually been a great slot for the conference. The noon ET window has proven to be one of the most viewed, and we're the only game on. The games have been very competitive as well. Great stadium and environment.
 
ISU has faced some great RBs this season. I think Johnson is the best. For him to be able to run with that pathetic passing attack says a lot.

But Skattebo is going to be a problem. The Montgomery comps are legit. Hopefully the Prof has something good cooked up.
 
I think it was originally meant as a slight to the Big 12 to put our championship first on championship Saturday, but it's actually been a great slot for the conference. The noon ET window has proven to be one of the most viewed, and we're the only game on. The games have been very competitive as well. Great stadium and environment.

At some point waiting around all day to watch the B1G east team throttle or at least completely control whoever stumbled into the game from the B1G west had to get a little old.
 
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I think it was originally meant as a slight to the Big 12 to put our championship first on championship Saturday, but it's actually been a great slot for the conference. The noon ET window has proven to be one of the most viewed, and we're the only game on. The games have been very competitive as well. Great stadium and environment.

Yeah, I'm ready for the 11am kick! It's been a long time since we've had a chance to celebrate all day (and shitpost online during primetime hours), instead of being stuck having postgame conversations with our glass of whisky in the dark and quiet hours of the night while the rest of the world sleeps.

We have the AM kickoff slot all to ourselves.

Mountain West and AAC overlap the night before, and B1G and ACC directly overlap later Saturday night. That's dumb scheduling for the others. LFG.
 
Depends on if we win lol.

I'll get out ahead of the meltdowns about ISU having to play an 11 a.m. kick as the only reason they'd get beat (It will be a handful of plays or ASU simply being better in general):

So did Arizona State.
 
I think it was originally meant as a slight to the Big 12 to put our championship first on championship Saturday, but it's actually been a great slot for the conference. The noon ET window has proven to be one of the most viewed, and we're the only game on. The games have been very competitive as well. Great stadium and environment.
Agree. I think this game is going to be exciting af for the average fan to watch. It will be close, there will be some big plays. Media love saying "Skaterbooo" as much as possible.

Turnovers and special teams will likely decide it.