On Saturday, Iowa State failed to meet expectations for the 100th time in my lifetime. I should’ve known better, and so should you.
The Cyclones dropped a very winnable game against a solid Oklahoma State team and fell out of first place in the Big 12, which is a sentence I can’t believe I can write this deep into any football season. Iowa State. First Place. Terms that go together like Peanut Butter and Peanut Allergies. Like Mike Gundy and a perm. It just doesn’t happen. It shouldn’t happen; and on Saturday, it didn’t.
Only Northwestern, Wake Forest, and Indiana have a worse winning percentage than the Cyclones among Power 5 schools.