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COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 34 days

Each day leading up to Iowa State’s season opener against South Dakota State, Cyclone Fanatic will check another day off the calendar with a memorable statistic, player or game as part of our Countdown to Kickoff presented by Tailgate Clothing. It has been nearly seven y...
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Williams Blog: Mizzou, KSU notebook

By Chris Williams, CycloneFanatic.com PublisherNo, I’m not blogging live from Dallas like some of my media colleagues who cover the Big 12 Conference. But I am live from my home office in beautiful Ames, Iowa, hooked up to that thing called the Internet, fol...
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Williams: Big 12 should have kept quiet

It’s been a busy past 24 hours at the Kansas City Star. Yesterday, the Star reported that the Insight Bowl was seriously considering taking a 6-6 Iowa State team over Missouri, who is 8-4 and beat the Cyclones in November. Today, there’s more. Dan Beebe, the Big 12’s commissioner was quoted as saying t...
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Williams: College Football Blog, 11-28

I normally hate it when Iowa State has a Saturday off. It normally just doesn’t feel right. But I must admit, today was a special treat for me. I actually had the opportunity to sit down, drink a six-pack of Diet Dr. Pepper, and watch an endless amount of co...
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Inside the Numbers: ISU @ Missouri

The Iowa State football team will hit the road and head to Columbia on Saturday for their final regular season game of the year. Both Iowa State and Missouri are coming off of wins last week over Colorado and Kansas State perspectively. Here's a look at this S...
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Predicting the Big 12 North: Good Luck

Tired of hearing about how bad the Big 12 North is? I know I am. Listen, we all know what the North doesn’t compare to the South. That’s no secret. It hasn’t in quite some time. I’m just tired of the talking heads out there pounding this in our brains, a...
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Week 8 Big 12 Notebook

Week 8 Winners Zac Robinson - Can somebody please bring up Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson in the Heisman Trophy talk? Since conference play began, Robinson’s completion percentage is 67.8. He’s thrown for 756 yards and six touchdowns. The guy is do...
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Week 7 Big 12 Notebook, Plus Power Poll

I am going to try to not over exaggerate right here but honestly, yesterday was one of the nuttiest days I remember in the Big 12, in quite some time. The wins and losses of certain teams wasn’t really what made the day so loco. It was more the spreads of some o...

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