It was a great weekend for football in the state of Iowa. The Cyclones won 34-14 over Kent State, the Hawks beat Arizona 34-17, and the Panthers beat someone I don't feel like looking up 30-0. Don't forget about those Linn-Mar Lions either, they had a come back win against Cedar Rapids Washington 41-28 or something like that.
Lets start with the good guys. Going into the game ISU had the nations longest active road losing streak at 17 games, basically if we didn't win this game we didn't deserve to be called a football team. Kent State was battered and bruised. The game started off with the teams trading touchdown drives after that it was pretty much all Cyclones. We looked like a pretty good football team (for the third game of the season) in the first half at least. The second half we still showed signs of improvement but also started to get tired and allowed the golden flashes to score another touchdown. Coach Rhoads quickly addressed this in the locker room and it will be an item they will improve on. Moving on to this week's game, we host the Black Knights of the United States Military Academy at West Point...aka Army. This won't be a push over but it won't be too terribly hard either. Army poses a couple of interesting match ups. First off they have a six foot ten tight end...that's a lot of highth on the line and down field. Second of all they have a six foot ten 283 pound WIDE RECIEVER, the guy played left tackle for them last year. That will be a once in a lifetime experience. Other than that it shouldn't be too bad, I would chalk this one up as a win for the good guys and move us to 3-1 heading into the Big 12 opener against Kansas State in Arrowhead Stadium.
I didn't get to see a ton of the Iowa game but from what I did see they looked improved and more like a hawkeye football team. The teams looked even but the hawks quickly put that to rest, especially in the second half. From here the hawks head out to Happy Valley Pennsylvania for a Saturday night showdown with Penn State. Now I know you are 3-0 but hawk fans...GET OVER YOURSELVES! Even if you go 12-0 you won't be in the BCS Championship game,okay you may come close if Texas and Florida lose a game but other than that you won't, not to mention you got your butts kicked by and almost lost to an FCS school...sorry. Good luck this week, I will be watching for your score at our game.
UNI continues to dominate it's foes. I know they lost to Iowa but anyone who knows anything about football knows that they should have won that game. This is UNI's year to win it all. I really hope they do too. I again don't feel like looking up who you are playing this week but good luck!
If I had to define Linn-Mar's season so far in one word I would say WOW! The Lions are a whole new football team and are out to prove it to anyone in this state. They are now 3-0 and I believe they were ranked #8 in the state going into last weeks game against Washington. I am looking forward to seeing the Lion's in action again at Armstrong field for their homecoming game on October 9th. GO LIONS!!!
That's about it for now. I may post again later this week with thoughts going into the games. However I have one quiz on Friday, along with two tests and a paper due on Monday so next weeks recap post may be late as well. Have a great week! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!
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