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Iowa State University Athletics
CollegeFootballNews.com Names McCarney Big 12 Coach
11.29.2001 | Football
AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State head football coach Dan McCarney, who led ISU to its first back-to-back bowl seasons since the 1977-78 campaigns, has been named the Big 12 Conference coach of the year by College Football News.com. McCarney, who lost 13 starters including NFL rookies Sage Rosenfels, Reggie Hayward and James Reed from the Cyclones' 9-3 2001 Insight.com Bowl championship team, has led Iowa State to consecutive third-place finishes in the Big 12's North Division. The Cyclones are 7-4 this season, awaiting its second bowl-game invitation in as many seasons.
Under McCarney, Iowa State has won 16 of its last 23 games, the school's best streak over that span since Iowa State was 16-7 from Sept. 24, 1977 to Sept. 15, 1979. Iowa State's win over Iowa Nov. 24 was the Cyclones' fourth straight victory against the Hawkeyes, a series first. It also marked ISU's 12th-straight nonconference victory, the longest such string since the 1957-61 seasons.
Iowa State has won eight of its last 11 road games, the school's best 11-game skein away from home since the Cyclones won eight of 11 away from Ames from Sept. 24, 1977 to Nov. 18, 1978. ISU was 6-43-1 away from home during the 1990s.
Since the start of the 2000 season, only 18 teams among 115 NCAA Division I-A schools have a better record than Iowa State, which is 16-7 over that period. Underscoring this achievement is the fact that Iowa State that won just 27 games during the 1990s, ranking 117th among 119 NCAA Division I-A schools during the last decade. Only Temple (22) and Kent State (15) had fewer wins from 1990-99. ISU was 27-80-3 during the 1990s (.259), bettering the record of only UTEP (28-84-2/.254), Temple (22-88-0/.200) and Kent State (15-94-1/.141).
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