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No. 18 Iowa State caps record-setting season with Pop-Tarts Bowl win
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Iowa State was 84 yards away from a historic 11th victory. It was a situation the team faced before. It was a situation the team had been preparing for since January. To ask Cyclones coach Matt Campbell the difference between this team and his others, it was...
No. 18 Iowa State wins 11 games for 1st time, tops No. 15 Miami 42-41 in Pop-Tarts Bowl
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It was a season of Iowa State comebacks. And fittingly, that's how it ended for the Cyclones. Game MVP Rocco Becht scored from a yard out on fourth-and-goal with 56 seconds remaining and No. 18 Iowa State capped the best season in school history by rallying...
Mario Cristobal, on now-retired Miami men's basketball coach Jim Larrañaga: 'He is iconic'
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Miami football coach Mario Cristobal wants now-retired Miami men's basketball coach Jim Larrañaga to do at least one more thing for the Hurricanes. Cristobal wants him to share all his knowledge. A day after Larrañaga announced his sudden...
Left out of the playoff, Miami and Iowa State have something still to play for in Pop-Tarts Bowl-
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Cam Ward missed out on the College Football Playoff, the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game and the Heisman Trophy. He's not missing one more chance to play for Miami. Ward and the 15th-ranked Hurricanes (10-2) take on 18th-ranked Iowa...
No. 3 Cyclones' fast turnaround earns coach T.J. Otzelberger new contract through the 2031-32 season
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger, whose third-ranked Cyclones have reached the NCAA Tournament each of his first three seasons, has agreed to a new contract through the 2031-32 season, the school announced Tuesday. Otzelberger inherited a program that won two...
Matt Campbell agrees to 8-year contract with Iowa State after leading program to 1st 10-win season
AMES, Iowa (AP) — Matt Campbell, who led Iowa State to its first 10-win season and became the program's all-time leader in coaching victories, has agreed to an eight-year contract that would keep him with the Cyclones through 2032. University president Wendy Wintersteen and...
After playoff chances slip away, Miami and Iowa State looking to regroup at Pop-Tarts Bowl
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami probably was one win away from getting into the College Football Playoff. Iowa State definitely was one win away. Their consolation prize of sorts: playing one another. The Hurricanes and Cyclones — a meteorological matchup — have...
Arizona State makes College Football Playoff with 45-19 win over Iowa State in Big 12 title game
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cam Skattebo and Arizona State are on quite a run in their Big 12 debut after being the preseason pick to finish at the bottom of the conference. Now the Sun Devils will represent their new 16-team league in the 12-team College Football Playoff after a 45-19...
No. 16 Iowa State falls short in Big 12 title game again, this time with CFP at stake
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The stakes were higher for Iowa State, and the outcome was the same as the first for the Cyclones in their second trip to the Big 12 championship game. And the 112-year wait for a conference title will go on. No. 16 Iowa State was playing for...
Arizona State coach once studied program at Iowa State, the team he now faces in Big 12 title game
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — There was just something about coach Matt Campbell and his program at Iowa State that intrigued Kenny Dillingham. “His culture and his realness, I think he’s one of the most real people in the sport. You see the passion and emotion on the sideline,”...
