Sixty-one points. Seven hundred seventy-six total yards.
Those are numbers that can give coaches and defenders nightmares. And bad dreams could very well start with Iowa State’s struggles with plays on the outside from the loss to Texas Tech last week.
“We did not tackle well,” said Rhoads last Saturday, “and my biggest concern is we should be able to play the perimeter run that comes off the tackle and we should be able to play the perimeter pass with equal speed and equal success, and we did not do that very well. We’ve got to get that cleaned up.