TCU-Iowa State Football Gameday for Friday, November 26, 2021

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Game 12 of TCU’s 2021 Football Regular Season: TCU Horned Frogs (5-6, 3-5 Big 12) versus Iowa State (6-5, 4-4 Big 12), Friday, November 26, 2021; 3:30 pm (Central); Jack Trice Stadium, in Ames, Iowa; TV: FS1 (Chris Vosters and Devin Gardner); Radio -- WBAP 820 AM, Sirius 119, XM 200 (Radio Talent: Brian Estridge, John Denton, Landry Burdine); Spanish Radio: Zona MX 99.1 FM (Radio Talent: Miguel Cruz, Elvis Gallegos).

Iowa State will be celebrating Senior Day prior to the game. There are 23 seniors on Iowa State’s roster.

Big 12 Conference Expansion Update: Big 12 Conference invitations have been accepted by Brigham Young University, the University of Houston, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Central Florida.  The schools said the moves will come by July 1, 2024, at the latest. All four of the schools currently are members of the American Athletic Conference (AAC). Additional information: here  

In the latest College Football Playoff rankings, Cincinnati is No. 4, BYU is No. 13 and Houston is No. 24.

Cincinnati, one of three undefeated teams in the FBS, is the first team from a Group of 5 conference to crack the top four in the College Football Playoff rankings.

TCU Uniform Combination for the Iowa State Game: Against Iowa State, the Horned Frogs will wear a white jersey with purple trim and numerals, white pants and a white helmet with a purple Horned Frog logo. 

TCU Interim Head Coach Jerry Kill Press Conference About Iowa State:  here

Iowa State Head Coach Matt Campbell Press Conference About TCU: here 

TCU-Iowa State Gameday Central: here 

The Line for the TCU-Iowa State Game: Iowa State opened as a 15-point favorite. The Cyclones now are favored by 14.5 points.  The over-under for total points in the game opened at 59. It is now 58.5 points.

Midnite's TCU-Iowa State Prediction: Iowa State wins, 38-24.

TCU's Previous Game to the Iowa State Game: On Saturday, November 20, in Fort Worth, Texas, TCU beat Kansas, 31-28.

TCU's Next Game after the Iowa State Game: This is TCU’s final regular-season game of the 2021 season. If TCU beats Iowa State, the Frogs will end the season 6-6 and qualify for a bowl game invitation. If TCU loses to Iowa State, the Frogs will end their season with a 5-7 record.

Iowa State’s Previous Game to the TCU Game: On Saturday, November 20, Iowa State lost to Oklahoma, 28-21, in Norman, Oklahoma.

Previously, Iowa State had: beaten Northern Illinois, 16-10; Nevada-Las Vegas, 48-3; Kansas, 59-7; Kansas State, 33-20; Oklahoma State, 24-21; and Texas, 30-7; and lost to Iowa, 27-17; Baylor, 31-29; West Virginia, 38-31; and Texas Tech, 41-38.

Iowa State’s Next Game After the TCU Game: Iowa State has qualified for a bowl game invitation. Bowl destination and details to be announced.

Previous TCU-Iowa State Game: Iowa State defeated TCU, 37-34, on September 26, 2020, in Amon G. Carter Stadium, in Fort Worth, Texas.

TCU-Iowa State Rivalry:

• Three of the last four meetings between TCU and Iowa State have been decided by a total of 13 points. The Horned Frogs won 17-14 in Fort Worth in 2018. The Cyclones took a 14-7 decision in Ames in 2017. Last year, Iowa State won 37-34 in Fort Worth.
• TCU and Iowa State will be meeting for the 13th time in their history.
• TCU holds an 8-4 series lead, including a 5-4 advantage since beginning Big 12 play in 2012.
• TCU is 3-2 versus Iowa State in Ames, 4-2 in Fort Worth and 1-0 at neutral sites (2005 Houston Bowl).
• Iowa State took a 37-23 victory in 2012 in the Horned Frogs' first-ever Big 12 home game. It snapped a 12-game TCU winning streak that was the longest in the nation at the time.
• Prior to TCU beginning Big 12 play in 2012, the teams had not met since a 27-24 Horned Frogs' victory in the 2005 Houston Bowl.
• The series began with a 27-10 TCU win in Fort Worth in 1995.
• Former TCU head coach Gary Patterson’s first game on the Horned Frogs’ sideline was a 31-21 victory at Iowa State in the 1998 season opener. Patterson was TCU’s defensive coordinator at the time. Dennis Franchione was TCU’s head coach.

TCU-Iowa State Connections:

• Iowa State has seven players from Texas on its roster, none from Fort Worth.
  TCU has one player from Iowa on its roster: starting quarterback Max Duggan (#15), of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Duggan played at Lewis Central High School and was the 2018 Iowa Gatorade Player of the Year. 

TCU Missing in Action News: Running back Zach Evans has missed the past four games because of a turf-toe injury. He now has been declared out for the season. After missing the Oklahoma State game because of an injury he suffered in the Baylor game, running back Kendre Miller played in the Kansas game. Running back Emari Demercado was hurt in the Oklahoma State game, but played in the Kansas game. Quarterback Max Duggan has a broken bone in his foot. He played the entire game against Kansas after not playing in the games against Baylor or Oklahoma State. Backup quarterback Chandler Morris was banged up in the Baylor game, but he started against Oklahoma State, a game in which he suffered an injury. He did not play in the Kansas game. Freshman backup quarterback Sam Jackson suffered a separated shoulder during limited action late in the Oklahoma State game. He was in uniform and available for the Kansas game but he did not play. Wide receiver Quentin Johnston did not play in the Kansas because of an undisclosed injury. He is questionable for the game against Iowa State. Running back Daimarqua Foster is sidelined by an injury. TCU quarterback Matthew Downing and wide receiver TJ Steele have entered the transfer portal.

TCU Notables: 

• With the 31-28 win over Kansas on November 20, TCU improved to 2-1 under interim head football coach Jerry Kill. 
• In the Kansas game, TCU scored for the 366th consecutive game, moving it past Michigan (365, 1984-2014) for the second-longest streak in NCAA history. No. 1 is Florida at 421 games (1988-present). The Horned Frogs haven't been blanked since November 16, 1991, at Texas (32-0).
• In the win over Kansas, TCU had a 100-yard rusher (112 rushing yards, Kendre Miller) and a 100-yard receiver (103 receiving yards, Derius Davis) for the first time since the 2020 regular-season finale against Louisiana Tech when Miller (136) and Zach Evans (130) topped 100 yards rushing and Quentin Johnston had 133 receiving yards.
• The Horned Frogs had two sacks in the Kansas game, giving them at least one in 95 of their last 102 games.
• TCU's captains for the Kansas game were Nook Bradford, Dominic DiNunzio, Max Duggan and Dylan Horton. It was the first time being a captain for Bradford and DiNunzio.
• Against Kansas, Kendre Miller rushed for 112 yards on 12 carries, his third 100-yard effort in his last six games. He has four 100-yard performances in his career. He also had a 56-yard touchdown run, his team-best seventh touchdown of the season.
• Derius Davis had a 43-yard touchdown run in the Kansas game. It was his first career rushing score and ninth career touchdown via four different ways. He has four receiving touchdowns, three touchdowns on punt returns and one touchdown on a kickoff return.
• In the Kansas game, Davis posted his second career 100-yard receiving game with 103 yards on six catches. The six grabs equaled a career-high set on two previous occasions.
• Max Duggan’s one-yard touchdown run on a fourth-and-goal play in the win over Kansas was his third rushing touchdown of the season and 19th of his career, the most among current Horned Frogs.
• Against Kansas, Duggan rushed for 74 yards on 14 carries. He completed 10-of-16 passes for 166 yards. Six of Duggan's 10 completions went to Davis.
• Emari Demercado had 89 yards rushing on 18 carries in the Kansas game. The total was just one yard shy of the career-high 90 rushing yards he had last week at Oklahoma State. 
• Super senior defensive tackle Corey Bethley played in his final home game in the Kansas contest. He had a career-high six tackles.
• Against Kansas, linebacker Dee Winters had a team-best eight tackles and recorded his second interception of the season, tying cornerback Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson for the team lead. 
• In the Kansas game, defensive end Dylan Horton recorded his third sack of the season, ranking second on TCU. Defensive end Ochaun Mathis has four sacks.
• Defensive end Khari Coleman and defensive tackle Terrell Cooper combined on a sack in the Kansas game.
• Against the Jayhawks, Hodges-Tomlinson had two pass breakups and six tackles.
• Kicker Griffin Kell’s game-winning 25-yard field goal with six seconds to play in the Kansas game made him 14-of-18 on the season.
• In his final home game, super senior defensive tackle Corey Bethley had a career-high six tackles in the win over Kansas. Bethley’s 37 career starts are the most among  current Horned Frogs.
• Since 2012, its debut season in the Big 12, TCU is tied for second in the conference in sacks, with 316. That is tied for 18th nationally.
• Since beginning Big 12 play in 2012, TCU leads the conference in interceptions, with 140. The Horned Frogs are ninth nationally in interceptions during that period
• Since 2012, TCU is No. 1 in the Big 12 in interception returns for touchdowns, with 17. TCU is tied for 10th nationally with its 17 pick-6s during this stretch.
• TCU will look to become bowl eligible when it faces Iowa State on Friday, November 26m at 3:30 pm (Central) in Ames, Iowa, in both teams' regular-season finales.
• TCU is playing on the day after Thanksgiving for the fifth time in the last seven seasons with the Horned Frogs 3-1 in that stretch.
• TCU's Black Friday wins include Baylor, 28-21, in double overtime at home in 2015, 31-9 at Texas in 2016 and then Baylor again, 45-22, in 2017 to clinch a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game.
• Since 2005, TCU is 8-3 when playing on a Friday.
• Since 2009, TCU is seventh nationally with 45 road wins. The Horned Frogs are 45-23 (.662) in that stretch.
• TCU's 53-29 record (.646) in road and neutral-site games since 2009 is seventh-best in the FBS.
• TCU's 35-22 mark (.614) in conference road games since 2009 is 13th-best in the country.
• TCU is 23-22 on the road in its Big 12 history.
  Over the last seven seasons, TCU has the Big 12's third-best conference record (41-30) and overall mark (63-36). 
• TCU Assistant Athletics Director for Strength and Conditioning Don Sommer calls TCU wide receiver Derius Davis, “pound-for-pound the strongest guy on the Horned Frogs football team.” At 5-foot-9 and 162 pounds, Davis has a 550-pound squat, 370-pound bench press and a 350-pound clean. He also is fast. He has been clocked at 4.3 seconds in the 40-yard dash. 
• TCU's Antonio Ortiz has been named a semifinalist for the Patrick Mannelly Award, presented to the best FBS senior long snapper. The award is named after longtime NFL snapper Patrick Mannelly, who played 16 years (1998-2013) with the Chicago Bears. Ortiz is in his fourth season as the Horned Frogs' short and long snapper. He has started all 42 games he has played and is a two-time First-Team Academic All-Big 12 recipient. 
• The Big 12 leads all conferences with six of the 10 teams bowl-eligible. TCU is not one of them. The Frogs must win their final regular-season game this Friday to become bowl-eligible.  
• TCU (5-6, 3-5 Big 12) has lost six of their last nine games, and four of their last six. 
• Against Kansas, TCU scored for the 366th consecutive game. It's the nation's second-longest current streak and ties Michigan (1984-2014) for second all-time in NCAA history. The Horned Frogs haven't been blanked since November 16, 1991, at Texas (32-0).
• In the Big 12, TCU is seventh in scoring offense, averaging 30 points per game. The Frogs are ninth in scoring defense, allowing 33.7 points per game.
• TCU has the Big 12’s second total offensive unit, averaging 443.8 total yards per game. 
• The Frogs are ninth in the conference in total offense defense, allowing 454.5 total yards per game.
• TCU’s rushing offense is second in the Big 12, averaging 202.1 rushing yards per game. 
• The Horned Frogs’ rushing defense is ninth in the conference, allowing 216.8 rushing yards per game.
• Averaging 241.7 passing yards per game, TCU has the Big 12’s fifth-best passing offense.
  TCU is sixth in the Big 12 in passing defense, allowing 237.7 passing yards per game.
• Kendre Miller is 10th in the Big 12 in rushing, averaging 62.3 rushing yards per game. He has rushed 83 times for 623 yards, and average of 7.5 yards per run.
• Demari Demercado is 15th in the conference in rushing, averaging 38.1 rushing yards per game. He has run 81 times for 381 yards, an average of 4.7 yards per rush.
• Max Duggan is the Big 12’s 16th-best runner, averaging 36 yards per game. Duggan has rushed 91 times for 324 yards, an average of 3.6 yards per run.
• Duggan ranks fourth in the conference in passing, averaging 203.6 yards per game. He has completed 130-of-201 passes for 1,832 yards. He has thrown 14 touchdown passes. He has been intercepted five times.
• Quentin Johnston is fifth in the conference in receiving, averaging 70.4 receiving yards per game. He has caught 33 passes for 634 yards. He has six receiving touchdowns. He has a long catch of 75 yards
• Taye Barber ranks 16th in the Big 12 in receiving, averaging 41.6 receiving yards per game. He has caught 28 passes for 458 yards. He averages 16.4 yards per catch. He has two touchdown receptions and a long catch of 77 yards. 
• Derius Davis is the conference’s 17th-best receiver, averaging 41.4 receiving yards per game. He has caught 32 passes for 455 yards. He averages 14.2 yards per reception. He has one receiving touchdown and a long catch of 63 yards. 
• Griffin Kell is seventh overall in the Big 12 in scoring. He has kicked 14 field goals and 40 extra points, for 82 points, an average of 7.5 points per game. Kell is the third-best scored among kickers in the conference. 
• Kendre Miller ranks 20th in scoring in the conference. He has eight touchdowns, for 48points. He averages 4.8 points per game.
• Dee Winters is the conference’s eighth-best tackler. He has 74 total tackes, for an average of 6.7 per game. He has one sack. 
• T.J. Carter ranks 17th in the conference in tackles. He has 62 tackles, for an average of 6.2 per game.
• Dylan Horton ranks 22nd in the conference for tackles for loss. He has eight, for 42 lost yards.
• Ochaun Mathis is right behind Horton. He has seven tackles for loss.
• Mathis leads Horton in sacks. Mathis has four, to rank 16th in the Big 12. Horton ranks 25th, with three.
• TCU cornerback Tre'Vius Hodges-Tomlinson is sixth in the conference in passes defended. He has five pass breakups and two interceptions.
  Jordy Sandy is the Big 12’s seventh-best punter. He averages 43.6 yards per punt.
• Nine players have made their first career starts on defense for TCU this season.
• Since 2001, the Horned Frogs have been the most successful football program in Texas.
• Since 2005, TCU has the best record in Texas among the 12 FBS programs.
• TCU is tied for eighth nationally in bowl wins (11) since 2000.
• Kendre Miller and Zach Evans rank second and fourth, respectively, nationally among active Power 5 Conference players in career yards per carry (min. 100 attempts): 1) Devon Achane, Texas A&M,  7.61 yards; 2) Kendre Miller, 7.38 yards; 30 TreVeyon Henderson, Ohio State, 7.32 yards; 4) Zach Evans, 7.28 yards; 50 Kennedy Brooks, Oklahoma, 6.98 yards.
• Kendre Miller and Zach Evans are on pace to shatter TCU’s record for career yards per carry average (minimum 200 attempts) of 6.4 by Waymon James (2010-13).
• In Miller (7.5) and Evans (7.0), TCU is the only school in the FBS this season with two players averaging at least 7.0 yards per carry (minimum 70 rushing attempts).
• Nineteen Horned Frogs have caught a pass in a game this season.
• TCU’s third-down conversion percentage (70-of-151) of 46.4 percent ranks first in the Big 12 and 17th nationally.
• Since the NCAA began tracking statistics in 1937, TCU trails only Alabama for the most times leading the nation in total defense. The Crimson Tide have been number one seven times, while all five number one rankings for the Horned Frogs are in the last 20 seasons.
• In 2010, TCU became the third program in NCAA history to top the nation in total defense in three consecutive seasons (2008-10). The others are Toledo (1969-71) and Oklahoma (1985-87). 
• Over the last seven seasons, TCU has the Big 12's third-best conference record (40-30) and overall mark (62-36). 
• Over the last 13 years, the Frogs own six AP top-10 finishes, twice as many as Texas and two more than USC and Washington combined.
• TCU is one of seven programs nationally to finish with an Associated Press Top-10 final ranking in at least three of the last seven seasons (2014, 2015, 2017). The others are Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Penn State. 
• Until this year, the Frogs have never had worse than the fourth-ranked total defense since joining the Big 12 in 2012. 
• TCU Athletics, as a whole, had an historic year in 2020-21. TCU won three Big 12 championships last year, in baseball, women’s soccer and men’s tennis. Ten of TCU’s 21 sports appeared in the national top 25. And rifle won another national title. 
• Over the past 10 years, TCU has invested more than $400 million in athletics facilities through donor funding. 
• TCU senior guard Wes Harris (6-4, 321 pounds), is the strongest Frog. Harris bench presses 530 pounds, squats 705 pounds and cleans 470 pounds. 
• TCU quarterback Max Duggan missed the majority of the 2020 preseason camp due to surgery to correct Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, a heart condition he was born with. 
• TCU has had at least one player selected to play in the Senior Bowl every year since 2015.
• TCU is one of nine schools nationally with a Heisman Trophy winner (Davey O’Brien, 1938), NFL Most Valuable Player (LaDainian Tomlinson, 2006) and Super Bowl MVP (Larry Brown, Dallas Cowboys, Super Bowl XXX). The others are Alabama, BYU, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame, Syracuse and USC.
• TCU is one of 21 schools to have won multiple national championships (1935, 1938) and produce a Heisman Trophy winner (Davey O’Brien, 1938). The other schools are Alabama, Army, Auburn, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Miami (Florida), Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Texas, Texas A&M and USC.
• Yahoo! Sports ranked Amon G. Carter Stadium as the best stadium in the Big 12.
  Nine of the top 10 home football crowds in TCU history have come since TCU began Big 12 play in 2012.
  
• It has been four years since TCU finished a season ranked in the Top 25. 
• TCU has 22 active NFL players. 
• Forty-eight percent of TCU’s student-athletes have received at least one NIL deal, which is the highest percentage in the Big 12. 
• Eleven different sports at TCU are represented in the NIL deals. 
• The Big 12 Conference ranks second overall nationally in total NIL compensation. 
• Gary Patterson is TCU’s winningest head football coach, with a record of 181-79. 
• Under Patterson, TCU won six conference championships, in three different leagues -- Conference USA (2002), the Mountain West (2005, 2009, 2010, 2011) and the Big 12 Conference (2014). Patterson also has been named Coach of the Year in each of those conferences.
• The Horned Frogs won at least 10 games in 11 seasons under Patterson. Prior to his arrival on campus in 1998, TCU had four 10-win seasons in its history.
• During his TCU tenure, including three seasons as defensive coordinator (1998-00), Patterson saw TCU earn 20 bowl trips. TCU was 13-6 in bowl games played with Patterson on its coaching staff and 11-6 in bowl games played with him as head coach (the 2020 Texas Bowl was canceled because of COVID-19 protocols within the TCU football program). Before the Patterson era, the Horned Frogs had only four bowl wins in their history.
• After the 2010 regular season, the Horned Frogs received the first Rose Bowl invitation offered to a team from a non-automatic-qualifying conference during the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) era. The Horned Frogs won the 2011 Rose Bowl, 21–19, over Wisconsin. The win climaxed an undefeated and untied season that earned TCU a No. 2 national ranking.

Iowa State Notables:   

• Iowa State University of Science and Technology is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, that was founded in 1858.
• The original name of the school was the Iowa Agricultural College.
• The school became the nation's first designated land-grant institution when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act on September 11, 1862, making Iowa the first state in the nation to do so.
• On July 4, 1959, the college was officially renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology. However, the short-form name "Iowa State University" is usually used.
• Iowa State is the largest university in Iowa.
• During World War II, Iowa State was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission.
• Iowa State is a founding member of the Big 12 and is the third-largest university in the Big 12 Conference.
• Iowa State’s undergraduate enrollment is nearly 40,000 students.
• Iowa State’s athletic nickname is Cyclones. The "Cyclones" name dates back to 1895. That year, Iowa suffered an unusually high number of devastating cyclones (as tornadoes were called at the time). In September, Iowa Agricultural College's football team traveled to Northwestern University and defeated that team by a score of 36–0. The next day, the Chicago Tribune’s's headline read "Struck by a Cyclone: It Comes from Iowa and Devastates Evanston Town.” The article began, "Northwestern might as well have tried to play football with an Iowa cyclone as with the Iowa team it met yesterday." The nickname stuck.
• Iowa State’s athletic colors are cardinal and gold.
• Iowa State’s mascot is Cy the Cardinal, introduced in 1954. Since a cyclone was determined to be difficult to depict in costume, the cardinal was chosen in reference to the school colors. A contest was held to select a name for the mascot, with the name Cy being chosen as the winner.
• Football first made its way onto the Iowa State campus in 1878 as a recreational sport. In 1892, Iowa State organized its first team to represent the school in football. In 1894, college president William M. Beardshear spearheaded the foundation of an athletic association to officially sanction Iowa State football teams. The 1894 team finished with a 6–1 mark.
• Matt Campbell has been Iowa State’s head football coach since 2016.
• Campbell, a two-time Big 12 Coach of the Year (2017, 2018), has led the Cyclones to three-straight bowl games, yearly appearances in the national rankings and a 23-16 record in the last three seasons; the second-best three-year stretch in Iowa State football history. 
• Iowa State has appeared in the College Football Playoff Rankings in each of the last three seasons, joining Oklahoma as the only two Big 12 school to accomplish that since 2017.
• Campbell is the first and only coach in Iowa State history to defeat every team in the league at least once during his Cyclone tenure and has produced three of Iowa State’s four winning seasons in Big 12 Conference history (1996-present). 
• In 2016, Iowa State was 3-9, 2-7 Big 12.
• In 2017, Iowa State was 8-5, 5-4 Big 12. The Cyclones beat #19 Memphis 21-20 in the Liberty Bowl.
• In 2018, Iowa State was 8-5, 6-3 Big 12. The Cyclones lost to #12 Washington State 28-29 in the Alamo Bowl.
• In 2019, Iowa State was 7-6, 5-4 Big 12. The Cyclones lost to #14 Notre Dame in the Camping World Bowl.
• Iowa State tied for third in the Big 12 in 2018 and 2019, marking only the fourth and fifth time in the last 60 years the Cyclones have finished third or better in the final league standings.
• On Saturday, November 20, in Norman, Oklahoma, Iowa State lost at Oklahoma (28-21) in its sixth-straight one-score defeat vs. a Big 12 team. Since 2017, ISU has played 30 one-score games, going 14-16. 
• On Friday, against TCU, ISU will be aiming for a perfect home record vs. Big 12 teams for the second-straight season. The Cyclones own a 10-game home winning streak vs. league teams, the Big 12's best active streak. Iowa State’s last home loss to a Big 12 school was to Oklahoma State, on October 26, 2019.
• A win over TCU on Friday will give Iowa State an above-.500 record in league play for the fifth-straight season and the sixth time in the school’s Big 12 history. 
• Iowa State is fourth in the Big 12 in scoring offense, averaging 31.5 points per game. The Cyclones also rank fourth in scoring defense, allowing 21.2 points per game. 
• Iowa State is fifth in the conference in total offense, averaging 428 total yards per game. Defensively,
• ISU ranks second, allowing 306.3 total yards per game. 
• The Cyclones’ rushing offense ranks sixth in the Big 12, averaging 158.5 rushing yards per game.
• Their rushing defense is fourth, allowing 121 rushing yards per game.
• Iowa State has the Big 12’s number one passing offense, averaging 269.5 yards per game. Their pass defense ranks second, allowing 185.3 passing yards per game.
• Junior All-America running back Breece Hall (#28) is third in the Big 12 in rushing, averaging 111.8 rushing yards per game.
• For the second year in a row, Hall is among the three finalists for the Doak Walker Award, given annually to the nation's best running back. Hall finished second a year ago to Alabama's Najee Harris.
• Senior quarterback Brock Purdy (#15) is the conference’s second-best passer, averaging 247.5 passing yards per game. He has completed 248-of-338 passes, for 2722 yards. He has thrown 16 touchdown passes. He has thrown seven interceptions.
• Purdy will play in his final home game on Friday, owning/sharing 31 Iowa State football records. Purdy ranks fourth nationally in completion percentage (73.4) and is 15-1 as a starter vs. Big 12 teams in Jack Trice Stadium. 
• Senior wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson (#8) is second in the Big 12 in receiving, averaging 76.9 receiving yards per game. He has caught 75 passes for 846 yards. He is averaging 11.2 yards per catch. He has five touchdown receptions and a long catch of 51 yards.
• Redshirt senior tight end Charlie Kolar (#88) is the conference’s seventh-best receiver, averaging 65.8 receiving yards per game. He has caught 53 passes for 658 yards, an average of 12.4 yards per catch. He has caught five touchdown passes and has a long catch of 34 yards.
• In the game against Oklahoma, Kolar set Iowa State single-game marks in receptions (12) and receiving yards (152) for a tight end. Kolar has 53 catches. He is two receptions shy of the single-season Iowa State tight end reception record.
• Kolar is one of three finalists for the 2021 John Mackey Award. It is the second consecutive season he has been a finalist for the award, which is given annually to the nation's best tight end. Kolar is the greatest tight end in Iowa State history, earning All-America and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors twice in his career. Kolar is also a finalist for the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy, given annually to college football's best scholar-athlete.
• Breece Hall leads the league in scoring, averaging 10.4 points per game. He has 19 touchdowns for 114 points. He leads the Big 12 in touchdowns; 17 rushing touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns.
• Senior kicker Andrew Mevis (#5) is 11th in the Big 12 in scoring. He is averaging 6.9 points per game, which among kickers ranks seventh. He has kicked 16 field goals and 28 extra points. Defense:
• With 67 tackles, senior linebacker Mike Rose (#23) is ninth in the conference for tackles. He average 6.7 tackles per game. He has three sacks, which ranks 23rd in the conference.
• Senior linebacker Jake Hummel (#35) ranks 15th in the conference with 6.3 tackles per game. He has 70 tackles and one sack. 
• Junior defensive end Will McDonald (#9) is third in the Big 12 in tackles for loss. He has 13, for 76 yards in losses. He ranks second in the league with 10.5 sacks.
• Senior defensive end Eyioma Uwazurike (#58) ranks fourth in tackles for loss in the Big 12. He has 7.5.
• For passes defended, sophomore defensive back Isheem Young (#1), senior defensive back Greg Eisworth (#12) and senior linebacker Jake Hummel (#35) ranks 23rd, 24th and 25th, respectively. Young has two pass breakups and two interceptions. Eisworth has three pass breakups and one interception. Hummel has three pass breakups and one interception.
• Senior kicker Andrew Mevis (#5) is ninth in the Big 12 in punting. He is averaging 41.4 yards per punt. He also has made 16-of-18 field goal attempts. He has a long field goal of 54 yards.

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For the Friday, November 26, football game between Iowa State and TCU, fans may bring snacks into Jack Trice.

Iowa State Athletics Director Jamie Pollard says the Thanksgiving holiday weekend has presented issues for the university’s concessions partner in finding people to work the game-day concession stands.

“While we will have limited concession offerings available for purchase, not all of our stands throughout the stadium will be open, and we believe that allowing fans the ability to bring food items into the stadium will take the pressure off those concession stands that we are able to staff,” said Pollard.

Fans still must follow the university’s clear-bag policy. Sealed or empty water bottles up to 20 ounces can be brought into the stadium. Water-bottle filling stations will be available. Coolers are not allowed.

sEcSPN College GameDay for November 27, 2021: sEcSPN GameDay will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Saturday, November 27, for the Big 10 showdown and 116th game between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 5 Michigan. Fox will broadcast the game at 11 am (Central). During the college football season, GameDay airs live on sEcSPN on Saturdays, from 8 to 11 am (Central). GameDay features Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard and David Pollack.