THE MORNING AFTER: IOWA STATE

My favorite stat from Iowa-Iowa State game is as follows.

The Cyclones first drive, which got all the way to the Hawkeyes one-yard line, spanned 13 plays and went 66 yards. Over the remainder of the 44 plays Iowa State ran, it gained just 116 yards.

That’s definitely some defensive dominance.

Of course there’s another stat I really like too — the final score of 13-3. Okay, well, maybe it would have been nice to see a few more points and maybe it was more than a little ugly, but that’s four straight wins in the CyHawk series, the longest streak of Kirk Ferentz’s tenure at Iowa.

“Just overall, it was a tough-hard nosed game, both teams, especially defensively. We were playing it hard, making it…