Iowa State Cyclones
OVER 8 Wins?? -125
Now the Cyclones are returning 14 starters and are led by a number of the latest head coaching commodities in college football and thats Matt Campbell. Campbell was sought after by teams at the NFL but seems like something unique is being built by him in Ames, Iowa.
Iowa State is one of only two teams at the Big 12 (the other being the Oklahoma Sooners) to acquire at least eight games in each of the past two seasons. This team has five offensive players who are also a quarterback in passing performance campaign in Brock Purdy who led The Big 12 plus preseason All-Americans.
You heard correctly, Brock Purdy needed a better efficiency than Heisman optimistic Sammy Ehlinger of Texas and Heisman winner Kyler Murray of Oklahoma. Purdy turned this team around from the second half of the year because he included 14 more points a game when he was named the starter.
NFL-bound David Montgomery will be missed by that the Cyclones but also have the void to fill although in the.
The Cyclone defense will probably be extremely strong and led the Big 12 in total defense. They allowed only 3.3 yards per carry, a marker that was ninth-best from the nation. Since the convention was founded in 1996, Iowa State had never ended first in scoring defense till they finally did it in18.
Tons of solid players return such as standout safety Greg Einsworth (led team with 87 tackles), defensive end DaQuan Bailey (8 sacks, 14.5 tackles for a loss), along with linebackers Marcel Spears and Mike Rose.
Campbells team ended the season and has high expectations heading into the 2019 year old. Getting to wins is not just something I feel that they will perform however there is a conference championship game in their reach.
In their non-conference program theyve only twocake games, vs Northern Iowa and Louisiana-Monroe, but gap involving those games they have their in-state rivals, the Hawkeyes of Iowa. Its time for the Cyclones to make an early-season statement along with a win over the Hawkeyes (Iowa has won four straight in this series) will do just that.
Their road conference competitions are Baylor, West Virginia, Texas Tech (at AT&T Stadium) and Kansas State, all groups the Cyclones defeat a year ago. They do play one other street game and thats vs Oklahoma. That the Cyclones shocked that the Sooners and Heisman winner Baker Mayfield 38-31 before you count that as a loss, dont forget in Norman.
The week following that match the Longhorns venture into Jack Trice Stadium at the match that will determine who has a potential tiebreaker. Although Texas has??a solid head coach in Tom Herman and a powerful offense, the Longhorns??yield just 3 starters on defense also will not have the ability to stay informed about this Cyclones.
Things are changing at the Big 12 and the Iowa State Cyclones are the No. 1??change that will take the conference by storm.
Wins:
1 – Northern Iowa
Two – Iowa
3 – Louisiana-Monroe
4 – Baylor
5 – TCU
6 – West Virginia
7 – Texas Tech
8 – Texas
9 – Kansas
10 – Kansas State
Losses:
1 – Oklahoma
Two – Oklahoma State
Curious at August 22??in BetOnline
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