With the benefit of hindsight it is pretty clear that the Cy-Hawk game with foreshadowing our entire season. Every single game we lost was reasonably close. Several of the games we won were unreasonably close.Cytwins is just trolling on that. Losing to Iowa this year literally pained me to point of feeling sick. I feel like like rational Iowa fans would agree that Iowa State LOOKED like the better team that day but just couldn't get out of it's own way to make any type of run. I also think rational iowa fans would say they were thankful Purdy didn't get a chance at the end with the ball because he would have drove right down the field and scored. However, our special teams was absolutely garbage all year and it cost us more than 1 game.
I am impressed that losing DM and HB did not impact us nearly as I thought it would. The losses in the secondary impacted the team far more than what I anticipated. I knew there would be a learning curve but it got exposed frequently.
The team was close all season in both winning more and also losing more. It will be interesting to see if we see big improvements in the bowl game.