The Cyclones will be replacing a huge amount of production on both sides of the ball, along with the heart and soul of their team in Brock Purdy. The Fiesta Bowl win was against a bad Oregon team in a COVID year, and in 2021 with all that talent returning, they showed a middling squad who was respectable, but not nearly the class of the conference. There’s a reason they’ve gone 110 years without raising a conference trophy, and even the best Iowa State teams of the last couple years with huge talents like Charlie Kolar and Breece Hall couldn’t win more than 9 games. Why they won’t: No matter the improvements we’ve seen Campbell make to this program, it’s still Iowa State. As the schedule, coaching, and talent come together, Iowa State is your Big 12 champion. That streak has to end someday, and why not in 2022! The Cyclones have the majority of their tough games at home, with their only road tests at Texas and Oklahoma State, both teams with big question marks and recent losses to ISU. Iowa State hasn’t won a conference title since 1912 when they won their second Missouri Valley Conference title.
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The team is disciplined, plays some of the best defense in the country, and has begun to recruit at a level no one could have imagined only a few years ago. Jack Trice Stadium is regularly packed and raucous. Besides some minor outliers like winning 10 games, Iowa State under Campbell has become a team that no one in the conference likes to see on their schedule, especially if the game is in Ames. Matt Campbell has this program at a place of competitiveness and consistency that Cyclone fans may have never seen before. Why they’ll be Big 12 Champs: This isn’t your dad’s Iowa State team. Let’s take a look, before any team has lost a game, and find out why your team can win the conference, and also why they absolutely will disappoint you this year. But, in the Big 12, does every team truly have tangible reason for hope?
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Hop into any message board across the country and you will find one of the most dangerous things any sports fan can possess: hope.Īs of right now, every team is undefeated, every program has fixed their problems from last year, the players look amazing in pads, that new transfer is even better than we expected, and that recruiting class we brought in is full of guys that other teams missed on. Right now is one of the best times of the year, as fans switch from celebrating or explaining away the previous season’s results and begin to focus on what this wonderful new year will bring their team.
After watching Georgia hoist the National Championship trophy some 8 months ago, college football fans across the nation have patiently waited for the 2022 edition. The offseason is nearly over, and our long wait is almost done.
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