Week Seven...

Sorry for the lack of updates this week It has been an interesting week with classes this week. Back on topic all three state schools have big games this week. UNI hosts rival Southern Illinois, Iowa heads to Madison to take on Wisconsin, and ISU hosts Baylor.

First off the Southern Illinois Salukis travel up to Cedar Falls to take on UNI. This will be a very interesting game, much like every game between these two schools. I have been to several of these match ups at the UNI Dome and let me tell you, that is as electric atmosphere as you will find anywhere. These two teams are somewhat evenly matched, I think overall the Panthers will win however it will be much closer than other games so far this year at the dome, much like last week at NDSU.

The hawks will board the busses tomorrow for the three hour trip up to Madison. This one may be a very interesting one in the fact that Wisconsin is poised to upset the hawks. However in my own opinion it may prove to be a close one but the hawks will win it and jump up to #10 in the polls.

It has been an okay homecoming week here at Iowa State. I personally have not had much time to take part in any of the festivities but will be in a pep rally tonight and will be doing bar fights later tonight. Of course that's all before practice at 9:30AM Saturday and the rest of game day activities, my dad will be in the alumni marching band again this year. He thinks I am joking that when we are together all they make is a straight line...he will find out Saturday morning. Anyway onto the game. The Baylor Bears will be coming up here for the game this week. Everyone knows the Baylor of past when you would have to try to lose to them, this is a much different Baylor team, even with several key players out. Their star quarterback Robert Griffin suffered a season ending injury a few weeks ago and is obviously out along with a couple of other players. Their back up qb is still quite dangerous himself and had numerous starts before griffins injury so he is experienced in the Big 12. I think this will be a breakout game for Alexander Robinson, A-Rob has finally been practicing all week and I think he is poised to run wild against a somewhat weaker defense. Our passing game will need to keep improving and Austen will have to make better decisions and better passes instead of pretending he is skipping rocks across a lake. Our downfall though will be our defense I have not seen them but I can't imagine a significant turn around from last week when they let Kansas with albeit an outstanding quarterback have whatever he wanted for most of the game. I am going to predict a Cyclone win to move us to 4-3 on the season and 1-2 in the conference. Next week will be very tough though with a trip to Nebraska...not gonna be pretty.

I have a couple of friends coming over for the weekend. I am excited for this, however I am not sure how much I will be able to see them with a very busy schedule. Hopefully I can catch up with them before and after the game on Saturday. Have a great safe weekend! GO STATE!!! GOD BLESS!!!