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Tag: Iowa State

  • Cy the Numbers: Oklahoma

    Cy the Numbers: Oklahoma

    Do you like meaningless stats, trends, and talking points? I do. So much so that I’m going to bring a handful to you each week this football season in a blurb titled “Cy the Numbers” because the best way to introduce pointless stats is with corny puns. Check back each week for updated stats and […]

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  • Cy the Numbers: TCU

    Cy the Numbers: TCU

    Do you like meaningless stats, trends, and talking points? I do. So much so that I’m going to bring a handful to you each week this football season in a blurb titled “Cy the Numbers” because the best way to introduce pointless stats is with corny puns. Check back each week for updated stats and […]

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  • Ranking Every Iowa State Football Team Since 2000: No. 10 through 1

    Ranking Every Iowa State Football Team Since 2000: No. 10 through 1

    Before you start reading about the top-10 Iowa State teams from the past two decades, take a minute to read about teams 20 through 11 on this list to help add some context (and I already did the work for you, so it’d be kind of rude not to). Once you’ve finished catching up, continue […]

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  • Ranking Every Iowa State Football Team Since 2000: No. 20 through 11

    Ranking Every Iowa State Football Team Since 2000: No. 20 through 11

    I got to talking to some fellow Cyclone fans here at TGS, reliving our favorite and least favorite memories as Cyclone fans in the past couple decades, because what else are we supposed to do without sports? It wasn’t long into the discussion before something hit me: So much of Iowa State’s football history—even recent […]

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  • Iowa State’s 10 Most Unbreakable Football Records

    Iowa State’s 10 Most Unbreakable Football Records

    When you think of Iowa State football, “success” isn’t the first word that probably pops in your head. In fact, many college football fans probably think the opposite, and some don’t think about Iowa State at all. And Cyclone fans shouldn’t really take offense — Iowa State is 109th out of 130 active FBS teams […]

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  • Good Teams Win, Great Teams Cover: Week 9 College Football Picks

    Good Teams Win, Great Teams Cover: Week 9 College Football Picks

    Northwestern/Iowa Under 37.5- Both of these teams have some offensive concerns to say the least. Northwestern can’t do anything well, averaging less than 4 yards per rush, completing less than 50% of their passes, and operating at a -6 in turnover margin this season. Iowa has spent most of their season trying to change their […]

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  • Iowa State’s Pursuit of Perfection

    Iowa State’s Pursuit of Perfection

    While we at The Tailgate Society love a good memeing, Jamie is hoping the Iowa State Cyclones can someday stop being the punchline.

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  • Ranking Iowa State’s Big 12 Rivals

    Ranking Iowa State’s Big 12 Rivals

    I asked nearly 400 of my favorite Cyclone fans to rank the nine Big 12 opponents from biggest rival to smallest rival in football and basketball.

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  • College G(Ames)Day: Iowa State’s Most Likely GameDay Opportunities in 2019

    College G(Ames)Day: Iowa State’s Most Likely GameDay Opportunities in 2019

    Unless you are a college football blueblood, the stars have to align nearly perfectly to host the most coveted preview show in all of sports.

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  • My Life as the Black Sheep

    My Life as the Black Sheep

    Lots of people have a “thing.” Art, music, sports, something that makes them tick and keeps them going day after day. For the rest of my family, that thing is basketball. For me, it’s not. It took years of trying to make it so, playing year-round and forsaking basically any other hobbies, until I finally […]

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