CYber CYd Football: Messiah's Musings, Week 6

Iowa State hosts No. 16 Kansas in its conference home-opener. In order to give Cyclone fans an inside look at the Iowa State football team, senior wide receiver Euseph Messiah will be posting a weekly blog at cyclones.com on Friday of each week throughout the football season.

Messiah has a clean slate to talk all things related to his life, academics, Cyclone football and other daily hurdles of being a Division I student-athlete.

Week 6
Hey cyclone fans! Welcome to this week's blog as we prepare to face against Kansas this Saturday. It's a new step for the Cyclones this season because now we start conference play and what happens from now on will ultimately determine the outcome of our season. Obviously, this is a very important week for us and we've been preparing very hard since our last game with UNLV in Las Vegas by trying to fix any mistakes that can help us win. To help prepare, we've been watching extensive film and focusing on what works for us so we can have a great gameplan against Kansas.

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This game is a little personal to us on the team because last season we did not play very well against them last year. We went into their stadium prepared, but it just came down to us not making plays. So, throughout the week our coaches keep reminding us that we have to play focused every down in order to win, especially in the Big 12.

Our conference is flooded with great talent. If we don't focus every play like our coaches stress to us, then it'll be very hard for us to be strong contenders every week. I believe our team is mature enough to realize that.

Kansas just came off of an Orange Bowl season and return many great players. They have nine starters coming back on defense, one that was the toughest statistically in the conference last year. Through four ball games, if they hadn't lost one early to USF, they're probably ranked in the top ten nationally. Even with all that, we know that we have to play our game and not focus on anything that may distract our ultimate goal each week and that's to leave with a win.

We hope that many of our faithful fans will be at our game this weekend to help cheer us on against the Jayhawks! Kansas is obviously a great team, and the game should be very exciting. Just make sure we hear you cheer for us loud and proud! GO CYCLONES!!

- Euseph

“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”

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