Dec 5, 2020; Ames, Iowa, USA; Iowa State running back Breece Hall (28) rushes during their football game at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday. Iowa State takes a 21-0 lead over West Virginia into halftime. Mandatory Credit: Brian Powers-USA TODAY Sports
They saw the speed. The skill. The vision.
But Iowa State’s coaches weren’t entirely sure how tailback Breece Hall’s myriad talents would translate to the field until they tabbed him as the featured ball carrier last October at West Virginia.
“I think we were navigating as a football program, trying to find a true starting tailback for us,” Cyclones head coach Matt Campbell said Tuesday in advance of Saturday’s 3 p.m. Fiesta Bowl matchup between his No. 10 team (8-3) and 25th-ranked Oregon (4-2). “And that was probably the midpoint of the season a year ago, playing an away game at West Virginia, where Breece really, I felt like, took the reins of not only that running back position but also kind of the...
