What Happened This Weekend?

Show Me, No Show You The Money - Texas !!!

Texas      Iowa St

1st Downs                   19           26

3rd down efficiency      4-14       4-15

4th down efficiency      0-1         1-5

Total Yards                 400         380

Passing                        255        251

Comp-Att                   14-24     28-51

Yards per pass            10.6       4.9

Rushing                       145        129

Rushing Attempts        40          38

Yards per rush            3.6         3.4

Penalties                     10-74     8-90

Turnovers                  0           3

Fumbles lost                0           2

Interceptions thrown    0           1

Possession                  30:41     29:19

Iowa State Suffered a significant loss this weekend.   3 Turnovers in the first quarter, a blocked punt resulting in a touchdown, and 34-0 at halftime is a difficult valley to traverse.  There were plenty of people that were complaining about the referees.   I personally do not like to blame the refereeing.   But, there were definitely two calls made the nullified touchdowns and two more calls when Iowa State was deep in Texas territory and one call when Iowa State had Texas stopped that gave them a new set of downs.   The following play resulted in a 40 yard touchdown.   I have heard numerous people complain that the game was not called evenly - including the Iowa State Radio announcers.   Personally, I believe we could have overcome the refs if we had not turned over the ball 3 times in the first quarter.   If you turnover the ball 3 times in a game you will often have a long hill to climb.  But, three in the first quarter almost ensures defeat.  

Let's talk positives. The weather was great and the stadium was packed for the third time this year.  That was one of the loudest ISU games I've been to.  During the kickoff I could not hear the canon, and two minutes later started to smell the gun powder. ISU played Texas very close other than the 3 Turnovers and blocked punt.   So, I contend ISU is still a good team, not a great team.   But, if we can fix the Turnovers we should be able to play with most of the team in the Big XII this year.   Our Sophomore running back tandem of James White and Shontrelle Johnson are starting to look very good with some nice runs throughout the game.  ISU showed some good movement on offense when they went to the no huddle offense.   I would expect to see us run more no huddle in the future.   Unfortunately, I think ISU is better than we played on Saturday, but you only get one shot to prove it. 

All the Whos down in Whoville are wondering what happened.   Nebraska went in to Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, WI to face the Wisconsin Badgers for the first time as a new member of the Big Ten.  Final Score:  Wisconsin 48 and Nebraska 17.  

My favorite quote of the day comes to us from Chris Meyer.  Commissioner, "What's up Chris?" Chris, "Taxes."

And finally the Commissioner and his daughter Julia were highlighted in the Des Moines Register in the tailgaters section.  


Final picture: more future tailgaters from the our tailgate group.