Iowa State (1-4) vs. Toledo (4-2) When: Saturday, Oct. 11 Where: Jack Trice Stadium, Ames Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. CDT You have to hand it to Iowa State Athletic Director Jamie Pollard. The guy wore his emotions on his sleeve last week following a 37-20 loss to Oklahoma State, ripping Big

Drake (2-2) vs. Jacksonville (3-1) When: Saturday, Oct. 4 Where: Drake Stadium Kickoff: 1 p.m. CDT Drake got its conference season off to a good start with a 21-6 win over Marist last Saturday. Next up is conference foe Jacksonville, which had little trouble with Butler, 35-7, to go to

Iowa (3-1) vs. Purdue (2-2) When: Saturday, Sept. 27 Where: Ross-Aide Stadium, West Lafayette, Indiana Kickoff: 11 a.m. CDT Captain Kirk sure knows how to push the Hawkeye Nation buttons. Following a loss to Iowa State, Hawk fans were livid, generating an “all hands off deck, fire Ferentz and his

Iowa (2-1) vs. Pittsburgh (3-0) When: Saturday, Sept. 20 Where: Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kickoff: 11 a.m. CDT The fourth game of the season isn’t usually make-or-break — usually. But for Iowa, which suffered its first loss of the year, a 20-17 setback at the hands of in-state rival Iowa

Iowa State (0-2) vs. Iowa (2-0) When: Saturday, Sept. 13 Where: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City Kickoff: 3:30 p.m. CDT The Hawkeyes barely eluded a major embarrasment with a 17-13 win over Ball State Saturday to remain undefeated, while the ’Clones stayed winless after falling to Kansas State, 32-28. Iowa quarterback

The man’s a poet

FIRST DOWN You might choose to remember Johnny Football pointing to the scoreboard and making “mo money” signs with his fingers. Or the chaos that ended the Auburn-Alabama game. Or the continued ability of Pac-12 referees to seemingly make up the rules of organized football as they go. But us?

That kinda year

FIRST DOWN The lights. The shopping. Radio City. Times Square. Hey, New York City is lovely in December. So how come it seems like nobody wants to win the Heisman Trophy? Jameis Winston? All Florida State’s freshman quarterback does is win on the field. Off the field, he’s been accused

Either genius or insanity

FIRST DOWN Ah, yes. Twitter. Where characters are capped at 140, and I.Q. is capped at 104. The social media world was a funny place early Sunday evening, especially if you chase collegiate sports for fun, profit or some combination therein. Feeds became littered with airmails from two camps: Ohio

Mac and the Mean Green are soaring

FIRST DOWN And goal to go … 1. Oh, sure, last week got more national love — Baylor-Oklahoma, Stanford-Oregon and LSU-Alabama all rocked the BCS standings in one way or another — but if you’re looking for a no-holds-barred, shakedown weekend in the Big 12 and Big Ten, Nov. 16

Cue the chaos

FIRST DOWN Somebody up there likes Bo Pelini. Which is strange, considering how folks down at Memorial Stadium seem to be fairly torn — and that might be putting it kindly — about the football coach of their beloved Nebraska Cornhuskers.  With four seconds left in last Saturday’s Nebraska-Northwestern game