Notre Dame: Five Things to Know About Iowa State

You may look from a far and wonder how in the world a 7-5 Iowa State was chosen to get to Orlando over 8-4 squads they lost to. You might not think of a traditional football powerhouse when you hear Iowa State but they’ve got a following that would lead you to believe otherwise.

Chances are this year that if you spent money on tickets to an Iowa State game that you at least left with a very compelling finish.

Iowa State has a 7-5 record but based solely off the scores one could see just a possession a game going differently and the Cyclones being 11-1 instead, as only their 27-17 loss at Kansas State to cap the season was by more than one possession.

On the same note their wins over Northern Iowa (OT) and Texas were by a combined five points. Things go wrong one more time in either of those at its instead 6-6 or 5-7.

My grand takeaway from that is that I’ll be pretty surprised if this one isn’t very compelling late and that really, they never had an awful showing on any night.

Brock Purdy Carrying the Load: