No. 17 Iowa State is out to erase the sting of a last-minute residence loss to Texas Tech when the Cyclones journey to Kansas Metropolis, Mo., to face Kansas on Saturday.
With the 23-22 loss to Texas Tech, the Cyclones (7-1, 4-1 Huge 12) noticed their hopes of an undefeated season slip away. They’re nonetheless in line to achieve the Huge 12 championship sport, however their margin for error may be very slim.
The Jayhawks (2-6, 1-4) find out about skinny margins. KU must win all 4 remaining video games to achieve a bowl sport for the third straight 12 months, which might be a primary in program historical past.
Iowa State led the Crimson Raiders 22-17 with 2:11 left final week when Rocco Becht discovered Carson Brown with a 44-yard landing go. Nonetheless, the Cyclones could not cease Texas Tech on the following drive. Tahj Brooks ran for a 5-yard TD with 20 seconds left to present Texas Tech the victory.
“Clearly, it is disappointing (the sloppiness and the turnovers),” Iowa State coach Matt Campbell mentioned. “You do not need to play that manner, particularly to begin November, and we did. We personal it, we reside with it, and we develop with it. Hopefully, we have sufficient braveness about ourselves to appropriate it and transfer ourselves ahead.”
Turning the web page, Iowa State talked all week about not letting the Texas Tech loss multiply into one other defeat. Campbell isn’t taking the Jayhawks calmly, whatever the statistical benefits owned by the Cyclones.
“One other week of speaking about one other tailback that you have a whole lot of respect for,” Campbell mentioned about Kansas working again Devin Neal. “He is robust, he is bodily. Man, he actually is aware of the way to categorical the soccer.
“On the quarterback place, (Jalon Daniels is) a man that is harmful and that is gained a whole lot of soccer video games. A man that may do it along with his arm — he is received elite arm expertise — and but he is additionally received this distinctive potential that he could make you pay within the working sport.”
Kansas is coming off a bye following a 29-27 loss to in-state rival Kansas State in its most up-to-date sport. The Jayhawks fell for the sixteenth straight time within the collection.
Jayhawks coach Lance Leipold has had two weeks to get his workforce prepared for the Cyclones.
“We just about stayed with what we have carried out prior to now,” Leipold mentioned about how he and his employees spent the bye week. “We made some small changes.
“I can not let you know how proud I’m of this soccer workforce and the way they’ve caught collectively via frustration and disappointment. They’re capable of work arduous and be coachable. They proceed to see that profitable soccer isn’t removed from our grasp.”
Leipold mentioned of this week’s opposition, “Matt Campbell is among the higher coaches on this nation. Iowa State is a bodily soccer workforce that continues to get higher each week. They play inside themselves and know what they need to do.
“It’ll be a workforce that desires to return in right here and put themselves again on monitor. It can an enormous check for us.”
The sport shall be performed at Arrowhead Stadium, as all of Kansas’ residence video games this season are being performed away from Lawrence, Kan., with this system’s common residence venue present process renovations.
–Subject Degree Media
