Split Zone duo, Alex, sorry to disappoint, it's just me and you today.

Yeah, no guests, but that's okay. We haven't really been setting out any expectations

that we would have guests, so no big deal.

No, of course not. Absolutely, definitely not any cadence. Punchy show today. I am exhausted. I need take a nap.

All right. So Saturday, Saturday, they're playing the Red River rivalry showdown, shoot out your mileage Mayor Vary on what name you call it.

Instead of talking about the two teams in that game because they are of little note in the broader

college football ecosystem. I would love to talk about the teams that just beat

those two teams starting with your Iowa State cycle. Absolutely. Iowa State beats Oklahoma last weekend, 37 to 30.

This game, of course, was played in Ames,

where you never want to go for a night game

if you are a highly ranked team. You might win but you're going to come out bloody and in Oklahoma's case you're not even going to win.

I would stay benefited pretty significantly in this game from Oklahoma just not being able to tackle and so I don't want to

overstate how good Iowa State's offense was a lot of this was not much more

complicated than Oklahoma not tackling at all but I think there are some good things here

that make me wonder if Iowa State might really be putting something

together even beyond the increasingly high but still existing ceiling that they have shown under

Matt Campbell. I think the big asset here is Brock Purdy the quarterback and I have some questions

about him but I think that his play extending ability is like a real asset like it's like prime Ben Rothusberger style play extending ability

That the yins are in there he is really really good at getting himself out of trouble and that is

important when you're playing behind an Iowa State offensive line that so far has not really

let him be very clean. I think that the stat that kind of says at all is that he

has been he has dropped back 91 times this season.

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