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BY EMILY.BARSKE @iowastatedaily.com May 22, 2015 — Des Moines, Iowa The sun beamed down on the “Blue Oval” in Drake Stadium at the Iowa Girls and Boys State Track Meet. Wyatt Rhoads, then a senior at Gilbert High School, had high hopes of winning the 400 meter hurdles for 3A. And he was seeded to do it.

Rhoads had already completed two races. The day before, he and his teammates won the 4-x-800 meter relay. Earlier that morning, he had raced in the 100 meter hurdles, missing out on making the finals by 0.3 seconds.

Vickie Rhoads, Wyatt’s mom, and Paul Rhoads, Wyatt’s dad and then-Iowa State head football coach, were in the stands. The stands were reaching their capacity, as is usual for the Drake Relays and championship meets.

About three months earlier, the Rhoads family was in Des Moines for a different championship event — that time it was the Iowa State Wrestling Tournament. Wyatt’s goal was to place.

He did.

As the ceremony for the 145-pound 2A place winners was announced, Vickie Rhoads looked on at the eight finalists at the podium in Wells Fargo Arena. All eight of them stood with their chests puffed, hands clasped in front of them. Seven of them were stone-faced — except Wyatt, who was sporting a cheesy smile with a big ol’ mustache above his lip on the eighth place step.

Now, as Wyatt prepared for his race at the Blue Oval, the mustache was gone, but the smile wasn’t. The number 53 was etched on his wrist in Sharpie, reminding him that he needed to finish the race in 53 seconds or faster to win the race. He knew he could do it.

Wyatt made his way to lane four, the fast lane. Each hurdle poised around the track — no barrier to him, as he’d been competing in hurdles since seventh grade track.

The race started — and it started well. Until the third hurdle.

Wyatt nicked the third hurdle, somersaulting forward. Yet, somehow, he didn’t go out of his lane, which doesn’t often happen.

All he could think was he wanted to win. And he couldn’t win if he didn’t keep going.

Wyatt, a junior in public relations, is a student-athlete — now a decathlete on the men’s track and field team. His journey to that role was non-traditional.

Sports have always been a part of his life. He tried every sport growing up, and he was a four-sport athlete in high school (football, wrestling, track and baseball). Not to mention athletic genes run through his blood. His dad is a Division I football coach who played in college and his mom played Division II basketball.

And “student-athlete” is just one of the ways he defines himself.

That self-identifier comes after Christian, fun, energetic, goofy and competitive.

“He’s very well rounded,” Paul Rhoads said. “He does well in school — it doesn’t consume him. He does well in track and field — it doesn’t consume him. He’s got strong faith and he spreads that out. He’s really able to keep himself going in a lot of directions and not shut himself down.”

Nov. 26, 2017 — Ames, Iowa

Wyatt returned to Ames from Thanksgiving break after the seven-hour drive from Arkansas. His family had made the move when his dad took the job as defensive backs coach, later promoted to defensive coordinator, at the University of Arkansas after being fired from the Iowa State head coaching job.

Wyatt has been down to see his family during breaks, even making the commute during some of the weekends in the fall to catch his dad’s games.

As it goes for coaches, the Rhoads family had to pick up and

EMILY BLOBAUM/ IOWA STATE DAILY Wyatt Rhoads’ hat was given to him by his father, former head football coach Paul Rhoads, several years ago. Wyatt began his Iowa State career as a walk-on for the football and track teams, but stopped playing football in 2016 to focus on track.

move all at once when Paul Rhoads took the new job. The move to Fayetteville, Arkansas happened during the middle of track season during Wyatt’s freshman year, so he wasn’t able to go to Fayetteville right away. But Vickie Rhoads was sure to set up his room just like it’d been for years when they lived in Ames — signed Shawn Johnson poster on the wall and all.

He got back to Ames late in the afternoon. He and his two roommates were hosting their regular meeting with their student-athlete faith group that night at 7 p.m. Wyatt is involved in the group and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Since coming to college, he’s spent a lot of time learning about varying denominations of Christianity and wants to find ways to unify different denominations.

In each room of his house in Ames, where Wyatt has lived for the last two years, there are projects and objects that scream of Wyatt’s randomness. A sword in the living room he found at a garage sale

this summer, movie posters in the basement, t-shirts with giant animal heads in his closet and perhaps most notably, a blow-up hot tub in the garage that he and his friends all chipped in for after Wyatt texted them all the idea on a whim.

As his dad puts it, he refuses to sit idly, or as his mom puts it, if he sets his mind to an idea, he’s going to make it happen. He and one of his roommates, Ryan Parslow, junior in kinesiology and health, complete a lot of DIY projects — like a loft for Parslow’s bed or painting the yard’s fence to look like a beach theme (living on Beach Ave, they call their house the beach house). Wyatt is the idea person and Parslow, the executor.

Around 6:40 p.m., he and his roommates began scurrying around, picking up the house for the group coming over. Wyatt — in his

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jeans, t-shirt with a giant dog and Christmas colored fuzzy socks — cleared the living room and kitchen table. Group members arrived, one at a time, coming through the back door, making themselves at home.

Connecting student athletes and helping them use the extra attention they get in a positive way is important to Wyatt. That’s why he’s involved with the connection group, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is the vice president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council.

The connection group was meeting in Parslow’s room that night.

Each time they meet, they play a game and pray before starting their discussion. The game of choice for the night was called Contact, where you guess a secret word by finding out each letter by asking questions. When it was Wyatt’s turn to have the secret word, he chose onomatopoeia — a real stumper.

Dec. 6, 2014 — Fort Worth, Texas

Paul Rhoads had to stick around in Fort Worth after a bad loss to the TCU Horned Frogs, who had defeated the Cyclones (2-10) in the final game of the 2014 season. The coaching staff stayed over after the game to recruit.

Wyatt would turn his mood around with a phone call.

“He called me that night, and had made a decision that he wanted to walk on and play football at Iowa State for his old man,” Paul Rhoads said. “And that was a nice pick-me-up on that night because

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we’d been pounded good. To know that he wanted to come play football for his dad was a lot of fun.”

Wyatt had been on several college visits to smaller schools wanting to play football. And he went on an official visit to Iowa State, though he was already pretty familiar with the program given who is dad is. Paul Rhoads went on the visits to the other schools — you can imagine the dad jokes that must’ve been told — but never pressured him into deciding where to go.

The two even toured his mom’s and dad’s alma mater, Missouri Western State University.

“I was probably more excited to be there than he was, to be completely honest,” Paul Rhoads said, laughing about it.

In high school, Wyatt was on the field every snap for Gilbert — playing wide receiver on offense, cornerback on defense and long snapper on special teams. Jared Gescheidler, Gilbert’s quarterback and now-linebacker at Iowa State, said Wyatt would yell at him if he didn’t throw him the ball. Despite having the schedule of a Division I head coach, Paul Rhoads would be in the stands, along with his wife, and would often fly separately from the rest of the Iowa State team to make both his roles as dad and coach work.

Paul Rhoads said he tried to be a dad rather than a coach in watching all of Wyatt’s sports, but he admits he was probably most critical in football.

Circa 2005 — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

For Wyatt, growing up the son of a Division I football coach was

EMILY BLOBAUM/ IOWA STATE DAILY Wyatt Rhoads shares a laugh with members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes during a meeting. Rhoads wants to use the attention he receives as a student-athlete for good.

Monday, December 11, 2017 Iowa State Daily normal. Division 1 football players were just regular guys who happened to play for his dad when he ran around Division 1 practice facilities and stadiums as a little kid — even when those players happened to be NFL star wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who played at Pittsburgh when Paul Rhoads coached there.

And moving to where your dad was coaching — Iowa State to Pittsburgh to Auburn, back to Iowa State — was normal.

That’s not to say the family name didn’t come without some fame. In a town as small as Ames, and a state as small as Iowa, the name of the head football coach at Iowa State means something. And to be his son means something.

But in middle school and high school, when your neighbors are the Hoibergs (the family of then-men’s basketball head coach Fred Hoiberg) and the Pollards (the family of Athletics Director Jamie Pollard), it doesn’t seem too unusual to be a coach’s son.

If the video of Wyatt asking Hoiberg’s daughter to prom going viral was a sign for anything (Vickie Rhoads noted it was hilarious because he’s not the best singer), it was that his name, and who is dad was, meant something to fans around the state.

For Wyatt, having his mom be the primary parent to take him to school, practice and other activities was normal — a role Vickie Rhoads said she enjoyed because of her passion for sports. Having his dad being gone for recruiting trips, practices or games was normal.

One of the first times he remembers realizing his normal was different than other kids’ normal was when he went to Boy Scouts when the family lived in Pittsburgh and Vickie Rhoads came as his “scout dad.”

Summer 2015 — Ames, Iowa

Wyatt couldn’t shake the memory of the 400 hurdles at the championship in May. What if he hadn’t nicked the third hurdle? Would he have finished in first — like he was seeded to do — instead of eighth? After all, despite falling, he’d managed to race one of his best times that season. What would his time have been if it weren’t for that third hurdle?

The race left a sour taste in his mouth. And it was part of the reason he decided to email Iowa State’s track coach on a whim to ask if he could walk on to the track team. The answer, yes.

So Wyatt set out to be a dual sport athlete at Iowa State. Though, he was technically a dual sport athlete before asking to join the track team because he and Gescheidler were finishing up high school baseball as they started summer football at Iowa State.

February 2016 — Ames, Iowa

Going to track practices, football practices, class and his activities wore Wyatt out.

Gescheidler said it didn’t seem like he was

enjoying football anymore. Not to mention, his dad was no longer Iowa State’s football coach.

When Wyatt made the decision to walk on at Iowa State, a big part of the reason was to be close to home.

After his dad was fired from Iowa State at the end of the 2015 season, his home moved from just a few miles from campus to seven hours from campus. That toll on a family seemingly escapes fans’ minds when they post cruel comments on social media or say things in passing about coaches being fired.

“It was a really hard decision if he wanted to stay and keep playing when they fired Paul,” Vickie Rhoads said.

“And ultimately, he decided that he’d stay because he wanted to keep playing with his teammates.”

So Wyatt gave football a try with the new coaching staff. But once he got into the thick of track, he was wearing himself thin spending six or more hours a day on practices for the two sports.

“He was trying to be fully committed to the off-season program with football and then he was trying to go over and run and get the technical work needed for his individual events,” Paul Rhoads said. “And it was just very grueling and he was finding himself heavy-legged and not being able to compete and do his best. And that’s all every athlete wants to do.”

He decided he wanted to focus on track, making the transition into a multi-event athlete.

“That was Wyatt,” Vickie Rhoads said. “He was like ‘all right, let’s go, let’s do this,’ and he was ready for the new challenge.”

Vickie Rhoads remembers Wyatt being excited after the first pole vaulting practice. He told her it was hard, but he loved it.

“The first meet that he did the pole vault was there at Iowa State,” Vickie Rhoads said. “It was so funny because he still didn’t know how to do pole vault. But he was trying his best. And he finally cleared a bar.

“Instead of going feet first and coming over the bar, he rolled over the bar,” she said. “It was so funny the smile on his face and to see that excitement. And everyone in the crowd was clapping because it was entertaining to watch.”

That fueled him to go higher and get better.

In addition to some of the other meets, Vickie and Paul Rhoads have been in the stands for all of Wyatt’s competitions in the Big 12 Indoor Championships, where he placed 12th and 11th in the heptathlon, respectively, and Big 12 Outdoor Championships, where he placed seventh both years.

Nov. 27, 2017 — Ames, Iowa

An usual late-November day in Iowa, the temperature around 50 degrees made for ideal conditions for outdoor track practice.

Wyatt practiced with Jackson Foutch, a freshman decathlete, from Kansas City, Missouri, though Wyatt

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“He’s in the same boat I was,” Wyatt said about Foutch learning to be a multi-event athlete.

Toward the end of getting through discus repetitions, they transitioned from windmill to full spin technique.

Foutch had never done full spin, so Wyatt encouraged him to give it a go.

“Coach Rhoads is in session,” Wyatt joked, though he was wearing a tattered Iowa State hat that he stole from his dad, who used to wear it at practices.

For as long as he can remember, Wyatt wanted to follow in his dad’s footsteps and become a coach.

Originally a football coach, like his grandpa and dad, but having not played all the way through college, he now thinks he wants to be a track coach.

“I’ve watched the impact my dad has on people,” Wyatt said. “Athletes spend more time with their coaches than their family. And you’re able to help kids grow up and mature.”

And he’s got the support from one coach who knows how much work goes into it.

“If you’re not passionate about it, it can consume you and wear you out,” Paul Rhoads said. “He’s got enough common sense and intelligence to be able to see that and manage that. Because when it comes to relationships, and a family, and giving your job the best, if you can’t do that, it’ll be a struggle.

“Growing up around it, I think he’s got a clear vision of that, and if that’s what he wants to do, we support him 100 percent.”

May 22, 2015 — Des Moines, Iowa

Right after the 400 hurdles at the Blue Oval, Wyatt couldn’t feel anything.

As soon as he crossed the finish line, he fell to his knees and punched the ground. He sat there for a minute.

Wyatt walked into the infield and laid on his back on the ground for a couple of minutes before he did an interview with a reporter. After the interview was over, the ankle started to swell. Pain didn’t set in until about a half hour later.

His ankle began to look like someone had taken blue and black fingerpaints to it. It hurt. But the hurt didn’t matter. Racing with his teammates that afternoon and the next day mattered.

After icing it all night long, he taped up the ankle.

They reckoned the ankle was sprained, but he never did go find out because the doctors would most likely tell him he had to rest, and with another track meet and baseball season starting the next week, rest was the last thing he wanted to do.

So Wyatt put on his socks and shoes — one that barely fit around the hurt ankle.

And he raced.

EMILY BLOBAUM/ IOWA STATE DAILY As a decathlete, Wyatt Rhoads competes in pole vault, high jump, long jump, javelin, discus, shot put, 110-meter hurdles, 100-meter dash, 400-meter run and the 1500-meter run.

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No. 19 MEMPHIS TIGERS

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WHEN: Dec. 30 | 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium | Memphis, Tennessee WATCH: ABC LISTEN: Cyclone Radio Network | KASI 1430* (AM) & KCCQ 105.1* (FM) (Available in the Ames area only)

No. 19 Memphis Tigers (10-2, 7-2 AAC) LOCATION: Memphis, Tennessee CONFERENCE: Big 12 HEAD COACH: Mike Norvell | 18-7 in his second season at Memphis

QUICK HITS: • Memphis has averaged 548.2 offensive yards in 12 games this season.

• Memphis’ offense comes from passing as the Tigers are ranked eighth in the country with 339.1 passing yards per game.

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BY AARON.MARNER @iowastatedaily.com

Iowa State found out its bowl destination Sunday afternoon and, well, it’s a familiar stop.

EMILY BLOBAUM/ IOWA STATE DAILY Iowa State wide receiver Allen Lazard runs with the ball during the Cyclones’ 45-0 win over Kansas on Oct. 14, 2017.

The Cyclones haven’t been to a bowl game since the 2012 season, but that year was also marked by a stop to the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee, the same destination this year’s team will face.

But this time around, there’s another wrinkle to the bowl game; Iowa State’s opponent, the Memphis Tigers, are located in the same city as the bowl game and will certainly have a hometown advantage. The Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium also happens to be the Tigers’ home field.

“What’s more suiting for this to be my last game than [to play a road game?]” said senior wide receiver Allen Lazard. “Like Jake [Campos] said, we’ve played well on the road.

With Cyclone Nation behind us I don’t think it will be too much of an advantage for them.”

As Lazard and his fellow senior teammate Jake Campos pointed out, Iowa State has fared pretty well on the road this season. The Cyclones played six road games this season, finishing 4-2 with wins at Akron, then-No. 3 Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Baylor.

Memphis has taken full advantage of its home field this year. The Tigers (10-2, 7-2 AAC) went 7-0 at their home stadium in 2017.

That includes wins over UCLA and Navy, both of which were in the top 25 at the time Memphis beat them.

“I certainly have a great deal of respect for what Memphis has done consistently over the last four to five years,” said coach Matt Campbell. “With a change in coaching staff two years ago and their program not only keeping pace with what they’ve done but really upping the ante… it’s a great opportunity.”

Led by senior quarterback Riley Ferguson, the Tigers air the ball out quite a bit. Ferguson has 3,971 passing yards this year and a 36-to-9 touchdown-to-interception ratio. Twice, he’s fired six or more touchdowns in a game and he’s had three games with at least 400 yards.

“What I know about them is they’ve got a great offense and they’re going to try to put up a lot of points,” Campos said. “We’ve played really well on the road this year so I think for us it’s just another game. We’ve got to go in with the same mentality as we would with an away game.”

Iowa State’s ability to keep up on offense with the Tigers will be critical. Iowa State’s offense has kept up with some of the best in the nation, such as the 38-31 win at playoff-bound Oklahoma, but doing that consistently has been the problem. That’s the key for Iowa State against the Tigers.

“I know they had a very good year,” Lazard said. “I kind of saw a little highlight from the game [Saturday against undefeated UCF]. For them to take UCF down to the wire, with the success that team has had, shows that they’re a great team as well and we need to be on our A-game to compete with them.”

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THE BIG 12 BOWLS BIRMINGHAM BOWL TEXAS TECH (6-6)

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WHEN: Sat. 12/23 at 11 a.m.

WHERE: Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama WATCH: ESPN

ZAXBY’S HEART OF DALLAS BOWL UTAH (6-6)

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WHEN: Tues. 12/26 at 12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Cotton Bowl Dallas, Texas WATCH: ESPN

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WHEN: Tues. 12/26 at 8 p.m.

WHERE: Chase Field Phoenix, Arizona WATCH: ESPN

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STATE VS NO. 17 OKLAHOMA (9-3)

VALERO ALAMO BOWL NO. 15 STANFORD (9-4)

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WHEN: Thurs. 12/28 at 8 p.m.

WHERE: Alamodome San Antonio, Texas WATCH: ESPN

AUTOZONE LIBERTY BOWL IOWA STATE (7-5)

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NO. 19 MEMPHIS (10-2)

ROSE BOWL NO. 3 GEORGIA (12-1)

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NO. 2 OKLAHOMA (12-1)

WHEN: Sat. 12/30 at 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, Tennessee WATCH: ABC

WHEN: Mon. 1/1 at 4 p.m.

WHERE: Rose Bowl Pasadena, California WATCH: ESPN

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NO. 22 VIRGINIA TECH (9-3)

WHEN: Thurs. 12/28 at 4:15 p.m.

WHERE: Camping World Stadium Orlando, Florida WATCH: ESPN

Lost against Tulsa in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, 31-17

2011

CAMPING WORLD BOWL

LAST FIVE IOWA STATE BOWL GAMES

Lost against Rutgers in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, 27-13

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MISSOURI (7-5)

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2005

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TEXAS (6-6)

WHEN: Wed. 12/27 at 8 p.m.

WHERE: NRG Stadium Houston, Texas WATCH: ESPN

Won against Miami University in the Independence Bowl, 17-13 Graphics by Peter Lemken/Iowa State Daily

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GOOD COP vs. BAD COP

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Iowa State vs. No. 19 Memphis BRIAN MOZEY

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BOWL SEASON IS BACK. It really is the most wonderful time of the year. So many games to fill us all with lots of cheer.

IT’S BOWL SEASON PEOPLE. And somehow, some way, Iowa State will be participating in it this year which means, ‘tis the season for Cyclone football disappointment.

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And for the first time since 2012, the Cyclones will be taking part.

Memphis is the opponent.

The Tigers are 10-2 with both losses coming to an undefeated UCF team (shouts to Scott Frost).The Tigers boast an electric offense, one that is second in the country in scoring (again behind UCF) and led by Riley Ferguson, a quarterback who plays at 1,000 miles per hour.

This offense has scored 66, 70 and 55 points in consecutive games, which is mind-boggling.

That’s a testament to head coach Mike Norvell, who in two years has built an absolute juggernaut on the offense.

However, I think he would probably like it better if I just didn’t talk about his defense.

Iowa State has lost three out of four, with two of those losses coming in controversial fashion. The Cyclones’ defense was fantastic until the final drive against Kansas State, and with two weeks of bowl practices ahead, I expect Jon Heacock’s defense to slow down the Tigers’ attack.

I’ll say this one more time, though (until next year): GIVE DAVID MONTGOMERY THE BALL. He’s the best player on this offense other than Lazard and he’s bound to make plays.

The Cyclones will be “Walking in Memphis” (with their feet 10 feet off of Beale), and they’ll walk out with a victory over the hometown Tigers.

Historically, Iowa State has been “Turrible” as the great Charles Barkley would say when it comes to bowl games.

In the previous 12 bowls the Cyclones have been to, they are 3-9. And I expect them to be 3-10 after this year.

This season, Iowa State is “Walking in Memphis” to play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl against the Memphis Tigers, which is a good team.

The Tigers are 10-2 with both losses coming to an undefeated UCF team, who was led by some dude name Scott Frost. Memphis has an electric offense, one that is second in the country in scoring just behind UCF. And it is powered by quarterback Riley Ferguson.

On the year, Ferguson has thrown for 3,971 yards, 36 touchdowns and nine interceptions while completing 63 percent of his passes. Now, Memphis’ defense is not great.

In fact, it is No. 120 in the nation. However, like one wise coach has said, “You just need to score more than the other team,” which the Tigers have proven they can do this year.

So yes, be cheerful fans.

Your Iowa State Cyclones are “Walking in Memphis” riding high on a successful season.

However, when this bowl game is all said and done, they’ll be crying in Memphis wishing they should have stayed home like they normally do.

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Iowa State 45, Memphis 35

If you want a low scoring game at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, I would suggest sitting at home and leaving the television off because that’s not going to happen.

Memphis is averaging almost 550 yards of offense per game and Iowa State is averaging almost 400 offensive yards per game.

Now, the Cyclones do have a defense and I think that is going to be the key factor to Iowa State’s win. The Cyclones defense can’t shut down the Tigers, but if they can minimize opportunities, the cardinal and gold will be heading out victorious.

With this being Joel Lanning and Kamari Cotton-Moya’s last game as a Cyclone, they will end it in style by each having a turnover and win the turnover battle, therefore, winning the game. Even though Memphis is the home team in this bowl game, Iowa State will be heading home Liberty Bowl champions.

Memphis 40, Iowa State 31

I have no idea how this game is going to go.

Memphis has a high-powered offense. Riley Ferguson is a really good quarterback and the Tigers can light up the scoreboard with ease. It’s an offense somewhat similar to what the Cyclones faced against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, who scored 31 and 49 points against Iowa State, respectively.

The Cyclones have lost three of their last four games and I don’t think that’s going to stop now. In the end, Iowa State still has a winning record for the first time since 2009, and pulled off two huge wins. But the season is going to end on a slightly sour note in Memphis.

Iowa State 38, Memphis 31

Much like my fellow assistant sports editor, I have no idea how this game will turn out. In my eyes there are two ways: the Iowa State defense shows up or the Memphis offense shows up.

The Tigers are a high-flying offense - I mean No. 8 in the nation high-flying. But then there is the Iowa State defense that has showed up big game after big game.

My original gut feeling was Memphis because it’s at its home field. However, Cyclone fans have thrown a wrench in that because as of writing this, they have bought over 13,000 tickets.

The likes of Allen Lazard and Joel Lanning, two blue-collar players born in Iowa, won’t let the Cyclones lose in their first bowl game since 2012. My x-factor is the Iowa State offense.

If it shows up, boy will Beale Street be poppin’ after a Cyclone win.

Iowa State 41, Memphis 35

With little bowl experience in the last few years, it’s hard to tell how Iowa State will perform in the post-season. But if this season’s success with coach Matt Campbell and his tea are a crystal ball for the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Iowa State is capable of beating any (well, most) teams in the country including the Memphis Tigers.

For the Cyclones to do this, they’ll need sustainability. The offense will have to work the entire game to keep up with the scoring pace of the Tigers. And the defense will have to keep the Tigers out of the red zone as often as possible. If Iowa State can play with consistency (which means staying away from penalties, which was a flaw against Kansas State), the Cyclones will take the victory.

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Iowa State stresses ball security The Cyclones look to make NCAA record

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Hold onto the football.

That’s a common phrase used by football coaches across all levels from high school to college to professional leagues.

It’s been a phrase that Iowa State coach Matt Campbell has used throughout this entire season. But, he hasn’t just said the phrase, he’s utilized it through his practices.

This utilization has allowed Campbell and the Iowa State football team to be the only FBS Division I football team to not lose a fumble this entire season.

“We preach ball security in practice, during the game and even during meetings,” Campbell said. “It’s great to see that our practices lead to successes during games because that’s an important stat to me and my coaching staff.”

Campbell and his coaching staff don’t just say it to the players, they run drills to make sure fumbles never occur and, if they do, to jump on the ball right away to avoid turnovers.

Those ball security practices started back in the spring when new players were taking roles from graduating seniors.

For about 10 minutes during each spring practice, Campbell would get offensive players onto the line and in front of them were obstacles they had to run through.

Most of the obstacles were similar to each offensive position, but some were specialized for wide receivers, running backs or quarterbacks.

The same structure for all positions included football managers and coaches holding strong mats at different points in the obstacle.

The player would run around cones cutting left and right when, all of a sudden, a manager would pop out and smack the player with the mat trying to catch him off guard.

“It’s harder than it looks to maintain

control of the ball after being hit by one of those mat things,” said redshirt senior linebacker/quarterback Joel Lanning.

“Once you do it a few times, you start to learn the hang of it, but it definitely prepares you for the real games on Saturdays.”

Then, after the cones, the player would run through an Arm PowerBlast, which is a piece of equipment that has foam arms sticking out and the goal is to run through the foam pieces without having the ball pop out of your hands.

Once they reached the other side of the PowerBlast, they would be met by another manager hitting their arm region to try and knock the ball loose.

Then, at the very end of this obstacle, the player would have not one, but two managers hitting each side of the players’ arms to see if that loosens the ball.

After all of that, the player would throw the ball to the coach and run back to the back of the line and do the exercise over again.

If the player dropped the ball during their turn, he would stop and grab the ball, then give it to the coaches. After the drop, a coach would come over and talk to them about what happened and how to correct the mistake, so it doesn’t happen again.

“It’s a good way to practice fumbling,” said sophomore running back David Montgomery. “I take that drill very seriously because I don’t want to be the first person on the team to lose a fumble on the season.”

The Cyclones have fumbled the ball six times, but each time they have recovered, not allowing the opponent to get a turnover.

Campbell said the number he focuses on most when it comes to fumbles is fumbles lost.

Senior wide receiver Allen Lazard said the team not only practices ball security, but how to recover fumbles.

Those six fumbles the offense has had could’ve been six turnovers for the opponent, but instead were recovered by Iowa State.

“Not allowing a turnover is huge for our team,” Campbell said. “We always want to win the turnover margin because it leads to wins as a team.”

Iowa State was a perfect 7-0 this season when the team won the turnover battle, but were 0-5 when it fell short or tied the opponent.

Not losing a fumble on offense is huge for the Cyclones to not only win the turnover battle, but also have an almost 100 percent chance to win the football game.

It’s been a collective team effort to keep that fumbles lost number down to zero because the defense is helping the offense just as much as the coaches.

The offense doesn’t just practice ball security during those obstacles, but also in scrimmages with the defense.

Lanning said the defense is always looking to create turnovers in practice, so they’re prepared for games. These scrimmages help the offense to know how to carry the ball and also what they need to look for when it comes to their opponent.

Campbell is hoping to end this season with zero fumbles lost in Iowa State’s last game against Memphis in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Dec. 30. If the Cyclones can end with zero fumbles, they will set an NCAA record.

Never in NCAA FBS history has a team never lost a fumble in an entire season. Northern Illinois, Miami (Ohio) and Bowling Green are underneath the Cyclones, but all with one lost fumble.

“I just want our team to continue to grow,” Campbell said. “Our mission is to set goals and this was one of our goals throughout the season.”

Going from eight fumbles lost in 2016 to zero this season, mission accomplished.

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BY MEGAN.PETZOLD @iowastatedaily.com As we all know, the time finals roll around during the dreaded last week of the semester, students’ stress levels tend to increase.

HANNAH OLSON/ IOWA STATE DAILY Columnist Megan Petzold argues staying active, getting plenty of sleep, taking breaks when studying and going to class during the semester can decrease stress during Finals Week.

Especially as a beginning college student, having a course load that used to last over the course of a year pushed into one semester can make a student feel extremely stressed.

This stress can lead to unhealthy eating habits, poor judgement, frequent colds or infections, low energy and so much more. However, I believe every new college student should be given some guidelines for how to help prevent this stress from taking over their life.

Some great ways I’ve found most effective are staying active, getting plenty of sleep, taking breaks when studying, going to class during the semester and understanding when your body is telling you to relax.

For one, staying active has been known to release chemicals in the brain that act as natural painkillers. Also, running

How to survive finals

connects mind and body, giving you time with yourself to work out any anger, frustration or anything else you may need to work out. According to an Anxiety and Depression Association of America online poll, 14 percent of people use regular exercise to cope with stress.

Getting plenty of sleep is imperative to helping relieve stress. When a person doesn’t sleep, they not only can’t retain information like they would if they were fully rested, but they also get the side effects that come with sleep deprivation.

Sleep deprivation can cause mood changes, abnormal accidents, trouble with thinking and concentration and weight gain, among others.

Taking a break when studying helps retain information.

Thoughtcatalog.com said, “After about two hours of hard studying, your brain starts to crap out on you. It’s best to take five to 10 minute breaks every hour or so. Stretch. Refresh. Breathe. Your mind won’t burn out quite as quickly this way.”

Along with sleeping and taking breaks when studying, going to class during the semester and paying attention is a very strong way you can help keep your

grades up and retain the information from the class.

Students retain some information during class when distracted or on their phone, but could learn so much more if they were to take extensive notes and pay attention to what is being taught. This can improve grades and help students feel more prepared for their final, which can decrease stress during Finals Week.

Lastly, students seem to push themselves too far most of the time. Especially when it is unnecessary, students still seem to over-exhaust themselves by doing things that should help them relax but cut into their time that should be spent sleeping. If you feel like your body is telling you to slow down and rest, do that as soon as you can.

In conclusion, I believe doing at least a few of the things above will help prevent all the negative side effects of stress. If none of the remedies listed above help or fit your style, look at some of the ways to distract yourself from stress, talk to friends or start a creative DIY project.

Any way you can find to help prevent stress in your life will help overcome the pressures that come with Finals Week.

EDITORIAL

Use your words to express empathy, not division In 2017, President Donald Trump has tweeted about the North Korea nuclear crisis by calling Kim Jong Un “short and fat.” In 2017, fashion designer Donna Karan blamed victims of sexual assault for wearing provocative clothing that was “asking for it.” In 2017, an Iowa State student thought it appropriate to make a joke about a derogatory word at a time when white supremacy is a very real thing across the country.

Luckily, in 2017, all of these actions were condemned by society at large. The beauty of the First Amendment is it protects the rights of those individuals to say controversial comments, but it also gives individuals the rights to condemn those ideas. But a bigger lesson is raised about the importance of using words and empathy effectively.

As we looked back at the editorials we wrote this semester, we realized just how much this theme resonated throughout varying topics we opined about.

Whether we are discussing any number of tough topics — foreign affairs, immigration, sexual misconduct, racism, mental health issues and even taxes — the things we say and how we think about people that aren’t like us is important.

Here are ways to keep this important lesson

in mind as you discuss these topics.

There is nothing presidential or honorable about tweeting words that divide people rather than bring people together. If Trump won’t be an example for us, we’ll be an example for ourselves.

When we talk about sexual assault, we must be careful to use language that doesn’t place blame on the victim. While we can strive to teach people to be good bystanders and keep themselves safe, this doesn’t mean alcohol, clothing or the “wrong place at the wrong time” have anything to do with the cause of sexual assault.

Plain and simple, sexual assault is always the fault of the perpetrator.

Using derogatory, racist terms isn’t OK. People of color have legitimate reasons to be in fear and furthermore, face outright discrimination and microaggressions every day. It’s also important to keep in mind that while you may not agree with NFL stars kneeling during the national anthem, you should still empathize with the injustice that they are protesting.

As we talk about tax and immigration issues, often driven by policy, we must remember we aren’t just talking about philosophy behind law, we are talking about people. Policy and empathy aren’t mutually exclusive.

Each of us play a role in using words and empathy wisely.

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CLUBS

Campus clubs use fossil fuel alternatives

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HANNAH OLSON/ IOWA STATE DAILY PrISUm Solar Car team members explain parts of the inside of their car to the public during its unveiling on June 2. PrISUm is one of the clubs working to decrease the use of fossil feuls.

COURTESY OF HANS ANDERSON Austin Dewberry and Arthur Bootsmiller, members of the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge team, pose with their snowmobile which uses ethanol instead of gasoline.

At a time when fossil fuels power everything on the streets, a new wave of technology aims to change the minds of people around the world and encourage the implementation of alternative energy sources.

Alternative energy is defined as any source of energy that is an alternative to fossil fuels.

A fossil fuel, much like the petroleum in you car, or the propane in your barbecue, is derived from the decomposition of buried, dead organisms.

There are two major concerns with using fossil fuels to power cars: emissions and a finite number of resources. While we have gasoline cars that are much more efficient than they used to be, they still emit large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

Fossil fuels are a finite resource, meaning once all of the current resources have been exhausted, they can no longer be utilized.

“It’s really cool because I can go to the pump right now and put it in my [snowmobile] and it’s a lot cleaner,” said Austin Dewberry, technical director for the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge team.

The SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge team participates in annual competitions held in Michigan, where collegiate teams from across the country modify snowmobiles to efficiently run ethanol fuel in their engines.

Ethanol is commonly found at gas stations around the country, and especially in Iowa. It is rated as E-85, meaning the fuel you are putting in your car’s gas tank is about 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

Two of the most common forms of alternative energy used today in the automotive industry include electric power and biofuel gasoline.

Ethanol alcohol, a common biofuel, is a fuel additive in gasoline that creates cleaner emissions compared to using just gasoline.

“Ethanol can be stored as a liquid, and we have fuel tanks and gas pumps that work the same way, whether they pump gas or ethanol,” said Jacob Heinberg, senior in mechanical engineering, who is doing research with biofuels at the BioCentury Research Farm in Boone, Iowa.

“So you don’t have to upgrade all of your infrastructure, because it’s still the same material,” Heinberg said.

“One of the current downsides to using biofuels is energy density,” Dewberry said.

“If you take a molecule of ethanol and a molecule of gasoline, gasoline has a higher energy density. [Ethanol is] technically not as efficient, but it’s generally cheaper.

Plus, ethanol has a higher octane rating than race gas, which can be almost $10 for one gallon.”

Energy density refers to the amount of energy available in a system per unit volume. At the current rate, a gallon of gasoline will provide more energy to a system than one gallon of ethanol fuel.

Many people have also explored using leftover vegetable oil from restaurants as a fuel source, said Arthur Bootsmiller, project director for the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge team.

“I remember back in high school, we were looking into using some of the waste vegetable oil as a way to power the buses,” Bootsmiller said. “We ended up rerouting the buses so that it was more efficient, but many people do use waste vegetable oil to power their vehicles.”

Biofuels provide an alternative to gasoline consumers can adopt today, but other technologies have been on the rise lately that provide an additional option for people, namely electric cars.

Tesla has been at the forefront of the electric car revolution for the past few years, given their wildly popular Model S car. They have also recently introduced a new Roadster performance car, as well as a fully electric semi-truck.

Tesla broke new ground with their Model S electric car, which showcased long-range driving capabilities, while also still maintaining the practicality of a normal gas-powered vehicle.

PrISUm, Iowa State’s solar car team, recently returned from the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge held in mid-October. The competition pits collegiate teams from around the world to build and design solar powered vehicles capable of traveling from Northern Australian to the Southern part of Australia.

Matt Goode, member of the PrISUm Solar Car team, said while there are many advantages to electric car technology, there are also a number of challenges that come with implementing them on a large scale.

“If we all switched over to electric vehicles overnight, our power lines would physically fall on the ground because of the load required to charge all of those cars,” Goode said.

“So biofuels gives you that option of being all available today,” Goode said, referring to the already available ethanol fuel at many gas stations across the country.

While both applications are useful

solutions to fossil fuels, one might have current advantages over the other.

“Right now, ethanol is more energy dense than electricity,” Goode said.

“When electricity surpasses liquid fuel in energy density it will be a whole new ball game, but until that happens, I think we’ll see electric vehicles do in-town driving and liquid fuels will drive longer distances.”

One unique aspect of adapting to alternative energy is helping other people to see the advantages and how it can be more efficient, both Heinberg and Goode said.

“We’ve made gasoline into a pretty efficient fuel, but that didn’t come without lots of research and development,” Goode said. “We can make electric cars perform better than any gas car, we just have to put that research and development into it.”

Heinberg added the concept of charging your car overnight can be viewed the same as charging your phone.

“You charge your phone overnight, just like you would your car, and then the next day you’re at 100 percent so you don’t have to worry about running out of charge.”

Part of Heinberg’s research revolves around looking into how to use more of the plant when converting it into a biofuel.

“Normally, we would just use the corn kernels themselves to make ethanol, but now we’re starting to develop ways to use the rest of the stalk as well, so that we’re producing more ethanol without wasting as much of the plant,” Heinberg said.

Part of the issue that comes with running ethanol-based gasoline in modern engines is tuning them to run at a higher octane than what is normally found at the pump, said Goode.

“We can electronically control when the spark plugs ignite in an engine, but right now, valve timing is still limited to a mechanical process,” said Heinberg.

“There is a company called FreeValve that is looking into engines where you can electronically control the valves.”

Being able to electronically control the valve timing in an engine would making tuning the engine to run ethanol much easier, and also make the internal engine components last longer.

The overall trend of alternative fuels has risen in the last few years, given recent plans to overhaul the auto industry and convert it to mainly biofuel and electric energy instead of relying on fossil fuels.

“I think it will be really cool to see where we end up with cars as these alternative energies are developed more and more,” said Bootsmiller.

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2017 Hippo Campus “Landmark” I first heard friends talking about Hippo Campus toward the end of 2015, but 2017 was the first time I actively sought out the group when they released their debut LP in February.

It was a sunny, unexpectedly warm day when I first heard “Landmark,” the snow was melting as the slacker-pop vibes of “Way It Goes” scored my walk across Central Campus. The weeks to follow were soundtracked almost exclusively by the band.

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A diverse set of songs is brought together under the same umbrella by a group that has a tight, focused sound. The playful “Western Kids,” timid “Monsoon” and liberating “Buttercup” could potentially come from three different records, but Hippo Campus brings them, and the rest of “Landmark,” together to form one tight, cohesive package.

A package that had a tight grip of me all of 2017 as I traveled to see them in both my favorite city and one of my favorite festivals, shared their music with the youth at a summer camp I worked at in the band’s home-state of Minnesota and made multiple (hopefully) life-long friends with little initially in common besides the fact that we both liked “that one Hippo Campus record.”

No other 2017 release brought me as much joy as “Landmark.”

Dryjacket “For Posterity” On the other end of the spectrum, no other piece of music brought me as much solace as this New Jersey-based emo/pop-punk outfit’s debut LP. Wow, is this thing poignant. Maybe it’s because each song seems like something your friend could have written over an especially isolated weekend.

That, and the production is spot-on. The performances are tight, but not suffocated, and the overall sound of the record is clean and roomy, not sterile.

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Lorde “Melodrama”

“Melodrama” is the sophomore album from Lorde, and follows the fall of one relationship into the rise (and fall) of a new one. The album is pretty linear in its track list, with the opening “Green Light” being an anthem to the girl crying in the club over her ex, followed by “Homemade Dynamite” and “The Louvre”, which are at the same time light and dark, following the same person falling for some-

Our Last Night “Selective Hearing” (EP) “Selective Hearing” is a new EP from post-hardcore band Our Last Night.This project showed Our Last Night has stepped up their game in a huge way.

When “Younger Dreams” came out, the band played one of the small stages on the Vans Warped Tour. This year, Our Last Night accompanied their release with an all-summer run on the main stage. Their rapidly growing fanbase is a direct reflection of the band’s improvement and growth.

“Selective Hearing” is a collection of seven songs that cater to all Our Last Night fans.

The lyricism is phenomenal, giving the group its own identity through its own way of storytelling, unique to other acts in the genre.

“Maybe I’m wrong but now look, the sun is falling / Most of our day-to-day choices are appalling / Understand that my last words are gonna mention you / Misused adrenaline, you win,” sings lead-vocalist Josh Junod on “Misused Adrenaline.”

The music isn’t lacking either. “Wicker Couch” and “Epi Pen Pals” throw early punches, both emotionally and physically respectively, and “Spelling Era” and “Patron Without Funds” keep the listener on their toes with naturally-flowing passages of both laid-back and driving compositions.

“For Posterity” came out in the first two weeks of January, but don’t let it fall behind in the excellent year of music that was 2017.

perfection. The angry, politically-charged lyrics are reminiscent of Rage Against the Machine, Zack De La Rocha even has a hidden feature in “A Report to Your Shareholders/Kill Your Masters.” El-P’s production is some of the best in the industry, with up-tempo, sci-fi synth-heavy beats that flow flawlessly from one track to the next.

lains is the most fun album Josh Homme and company have ever produced, tracks like “Feet Don’t Fail Me,” “The Way You Used to Do” and “Head Like a Haunted House,” are hard not to dance to. That doesn’t mean “Villains” is without the standard Queens rock-epics.

“Un-Reborn Again” and “The Evil Has Landed” are dense tracks that will have you coming back to “Villains” for another listen.

one new and thinking their relationship is a masterpiece.

The most vulnerable tracks on the album are “Liability” and “Hard Feelings/Loveless”, as the quiet power of the former acknowledges Lorde’s own shortcomings, and the latter desperately seeks to repair a relationship beyond repair.

The tracks between further the carefully constructed story of Lorde’s life, ending the album with the triumphant and resolved “Perfect Places,” which sings to a time gone by, a time when we were eighteen and vulnerable but in pursuit of that which excited us, destroyed us and set our hearts on fire.

Songs like “Caught in the Storm” offer a purely melodic rock vibe while songs like “Ivory Tower” offer something to the heavier side.

“Tongue Tied” is one of the strongest songs because it brings both sides of the spectrum, many different emotions and a fluctuating pace together into a masterpiece of a track.

The EP shows the increased strength of the individual members with increased musical complexity and finesse. Frontman Trevor Wentworth has become stronger not only in his screaming, but also in his melodic contributions. Guitarist and vocalist Matt Wentworth continues to impress with his beautiful range and spot on guitar riffs. Drummer Tim Molloy continues to be a beast behind the kit, but never oversteps to a place where drums take over the track. Bassist Woody Woodrow masters increasingly musical bass lines that tie the songs together.

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3 visit our LOCATIONS

ISU Book Store inside the Memorial Union December 7-16 During store hours: Mon-Thurs: 8am-6pm Fri: 8am-5pm (Dec. 15th until 6pm) Sat: 9am-5pm Sun: 12pm-4pm

Union Drive Community Center, Maple Willow Larch, Frederiksen Court Community Center, Wallace/Wilson Dec. 12-14, 12pm-7pm Dec. 15, 10am-3pm

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