Iowa State And Akron Meet For Second Time On Saturday

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IOWA STATE (0-2, 0-1 Big 12)
vs. Akron (2-0, 0-0 MAC)
Sat., Sept. 22 | 11 A.M. CST | Ames Iowa
MidAmerican Energy Field At Jack Trice Stadium (61,500)

Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/Learfield
Talent: John Walters, Eric Heft, Ben Bruns
TV: FSN
Talent: Mark Followill, Brian Baldinger, Lesley McCaslin
Live Stats: cyclonestats.com

Quick Hits
-Iowa State (0-2, 0-1 Big 12) plays host to Akron (2-0, 0-0 MAC) Saturday on FSN.
-The two teams met for the first time last season, as the Cyclones defeated the Zips, 41-14 in Akron.
-Matt Campbell, who was the head coach at Toledo from 2012-15, was 1-1 vs. Akron in his four full seasons as head coach of the Rockets. With the victory a year ago, he is 2-1 all-time vs. the Zips as a head coach.
-Iowa State is 25-5 all-time vs. MAC schools. ISU has played a MAC school in four of the last five seasons, splitting with Toledo in 2014 and 2015, a team coached by current ISU head man Matt Campbell.
-ISU has had over 50,000 fans attend a game at MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium for a school-record 46-straight games.
-Iowa State lost in its home and Big 12 opener to No. 5 Oklahoma, 37-27 last Saturday, racking up 447 yards of total offense in the loss.
-WR Hakeem Butler had a breakout game, catching five passes for a career-high 174 yards to average a whopping 34.8 yards per reception. His 174 yards ties for the 10th-best single-game total in school history.
-Butler had TD catches of 51 and 57 yards to increase his career total of 50+ yard receptions to six (74, 67, 57, 57, 52, 51). His 26.1 yards per catch average this season ranks fourth nationally.
-Butler has 11 career TD grabs to rank 10th in school history.
-QB Zeb Noland received his second career start while filling in for the injured Kyle Kempt. Noland responded by throwing for a career-high 360 yards on 25-of-36 passing. Noland hit Butler on TD tosses of 51 and 57 yards to tie his career best in TD passes
-It marked the third different Cyclone QB to throw for over 300 yards in a game the past two seasons: Jacob Park, Kyle Kempt, Zeb Noland.
-Noland has four career TD passes and all four have been strikes of 35 yards or more (36, 51, 57, 67).
-LB Mike Rose, who became the first Cyclone true freshman defender to start a season-opener since 2006, is third on the team in tackles at 7.0, ranking second nationally among freshman tacklers.
-CB Brian Peavy has 37 career passes defended, ranking No. 1 among active FBS players.
-Safety Greg Eisworth leads the team and ranks third in the Big 12 in tackles per game (10.0).
-Iowa State has more catches from its tight ends (6) in two games than it did the entire 2017 season (5).
-ISU has just two lost fumbles in its last 1,043 offensive plays from scrimmage.
-PK Connor Assalley is 3-of-3 on field goals this season. In the Matt Campbell era (2016-), the Cyclones have connected on 85.7 percent of their field goals (36-of-42).
-Starters by class in 2018: Seniors (7), Juniors (10), Sophomores (7), Freshmen (2).
-In the Matt Campbell era, ISU is 10-2 when winning the turnover margin and 1-14 when losing or tying the turnover margin in a game.
-Only two teams (Oklahoma State, Oklahoma) have scored more than 20 points vs. ISU in its last 10 games.
-In its last 10 games, ISU's defense is allowing 8.5 offensive points in the second half.
-In the last two seasons, Iowa State has an 8-7 overall record with all seven of its losses at 10 points or less. ISU's margin of defeat in those seven losses is 6.4.
-Iowa State's first six opponents to start the season all made bowl games in 2017 and four are currently ranked in the AP Top-25 (#5 Oklahoma, #12 West Virginia, #15 Oklahoma State, #17 TCU).
-ISU's first six opponents currently have a combined 15-1 record.

Iowa State And Akron Meet For Second Time On Saturday

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Hakeem Butler

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Kyle Kempt

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