***BYE & Arkansas State weekly discussion thread***

[frackincygy]

Thank you. This is good info, I was referring to so far this season. If you look at wins I feel we have one of the better ones out there currently.

GT over #10 FSU - Neutral (Dublin, Ireland)
#1 UGA over #14 Clemson - Neutral (Atlanta, GA)
#7 ND over #20 TAMU - Away
#23 USC over #13 LSU - Neutral (Las Vegas, NV)
Boston College over #10 FSU - Away
#3 Tex@$$ over #10 Michigan - Away
Iowa State over #21 Iowa - Away
NIU over #5 ND - Away
#14 Tenn over #24 NC State - Neutral (Charlotte, NC)

These were the ranked home/neutral losses I found on the season.

 

[Aclone]

Did they say their name was Zac R. F.?

They said that they hadn’t called in in a long time, and CW recognized them, but I’m hazy on the name and don’t want to get it wrong.

Don’t think so, though.

 

[cytor]

I like our chances at staying undefeated this week.

Someone will still complain about it anyway.

 

[MartyFine]

 

[BCClone]

Someone will still complain about it anyway.

We are doing the bye wrong.

 

[mjhavlo76]

Arkansas State is 2-0, with narrow wins over Central Arkansas and Tulsa. I'm not gonna pretend to know much about this team, so I'll just throw out some stats.

PPG: 31
PTS ALLOWED/GM: 27.5

-They average 140 rush yds per game but only 3.3 yds per carry. Everyone on the team averages less than 4 yards per carry.
-Passing numbers are not great. They only have 1 good WR, Corey Rucker. Gotta guard that guy. His numbers are similar to Jaylin Noel's.
-Dangerous punt returner.
-68.5 penalty yards per game is something I hope our coaches pay attention to and take advantage of.
-They are solid on 3rd downs, offensively and defensively.
-Good redzone offense.


I hope ISU takes advantage of the bye week to rest the guys up and study film on Arkansas State. They play Michigan next week and could be beat up coming into Ames in two weeks.

Agree with everything. Bye week couldn't of come at a better time. Arkansas State vs. Michigan will be telling for us.

A novice fan might look at Arkansas State as a cruising victory, but they're not too bad. If memory serves usually make a lower tier bowl game year-after-year.

Every game on the schedule is at the utmost importance and I'm sure Cambell will have his boys prepared.

 

[intrepid27]

I'm guessing the Wolverines will be taking out some frustration on AR State.

 

[crs8975]

Crap, we have to play Arkansas State and Alaska State on the same day?

Yep! JP Doubling up. Funds are tight!

 

[Aclone]

Yep! JP Doubling up. Funds are tight!

I hear they’re playing Alabama State on the dirt strip for CyTown, just to save wear on the turf that day.

 

[qwerty]

I hear they’re playing Alabama State on the dirt strip for CyTown, just to save wear on the turf that day.

Let's squeeze in Arizona State too, get it all over in one day.
Alaska State
Arkansas State
Alabama State
Arizona State
Then in two years we can play Azerbajin State in a foreign country.

 

[sj4]

I told people this summer that Iowa State could be better because we had so many coming back (18 of 22 starters I think it was). Some didn't want to buy that but I told them that there is a HUGE difference between having 18 of 22 coming back off of a 2-10 team and one that went 7-6 and lost three of those games by one score.

Well guess what. One of those one score losses last year was to Iowa. So the one more year of maturity thing with the same players playing seems to be playing out so far.

 

[BigJCy]

Have watched Arkansas State some against Michigan today. They are better than what I expected them to be. Clones better not show up flat next week.

 

[Aclone]

Have watched Arkansas State some against Michigan today. They are better than what I expected them to be. Clones better not show up flat next week.

Didn’t Michigan put their scrubs in a long time ago, after running all over them?

 

[RagingCloner]

Have watched Arkansas State some against Michigan today. They are better than what I expected them to be. Clones better not show up flat next week.

lol wut? UM spotted them 3 INT’s and put in scrubs at half. Also, UM RB ran for 153 yards. Take a deep breath pal

 

[kentkel]

lol wut? UM spotted them 3 INT’s and put in scrubs at half. Also, UM RB ran for 153 yards. Take a deep breath pal

Said a similar thing in another thread (i.e. UM's 3 interceptions and still up comfortably 21-3 at halftime).

 

[acoustimac]

Woof…I know Michigan isn’t that good this year, but Ark State really showed up. As someone else said we'd best come out as our best selves or we will get slapped up side the head. And Iowa…wow…they look like crap (its end of first half). Last week's win may not be as big as we thought.

 

[RagingCloner]

Woof…I know Michigan isn’t that good this year, but Ark State really showed up. As someone else said we'd best come out as our best selves or we will get slapped up side the head. And Iowa…wow…they look like crap. Last week's win may not be as big as we thought.

Did you watch the game, or just the score?

 

[acoustimac]

Did you watch the game, or just the score?

I watched the Michigan game and am watching the Iowa game. How’s that for a response to a dumb question?

 

[cyclone1209]

I watched the Michigan game and am watching the Iowa game. How’s that for a response to a dumb question?

I would love to see our backup QB get a lot of time next Saturday. I think we are better than Michigan by quite a bit this year too.

 

[bosco]

I would love to see our backup QB get a lot of time next Saturday. I think we are better than Michigan by quite a bit this year too.

Fans: Please blow out this lesser team so we can get valuable playing time for the back ups.

Matt Campbell: