Welcome to another edition of the cyclone fanatic podcast.

It's not a victory Monday.

Unfortunately, it's not even a victory Tuesday, but it is football and random things.

What's up, Jeff?

Well, it's a mental victory Monday, Tuesday. Does that count?

Like, the mental victory here is, you know, in as an acknowledgement of how far Iowa State has progressed under Matt Campbell and also just generally, you know, from the Walden years and you're going

over in the for a season or something like that to now where you know before in any

other season any other period in Iowa State history,

you look at Oklahoma and you're like,

man, in order to beat Oklahoma,

we are going to have to get,

they're going to have to throw

seven interceptions and fumble the ball twice

and we have to return a kickoff to score.

You know like beating Nebraska and they turn the ball over eight times.

Like that's the kind of thing of like this is what you're going to have to do.

And the fact that you can be in a big 12 championship

and turn the ball over three times

in really bad situations, like really poorly timed turnovers, if there is such a thing as a well time turnover but poorly time

turnovers and still probably could have won it even even with three turnovers.

So that's the, I don't know, little mini mental victory

of being like, look, they're, I don't know,

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