Author: Travis Hines, Des Moines Register

Iowa State is back in the Big 12 race after upsetting previously unbeaten Oklahoma State with a late fourth-down stop.

Iowa State won its opener but the eighth-ranked Cyclones barely held off Northern Iowa in a game that belied the team’s high expectations.

Iowa State men’s basketball has found its coach in a familiar face: T.J. Otzelberger, an assistant with the Cyclones during two previous stints.

The No. 2-ranked Baylor Bears hadn’t played a game in three weeks, and it showed as Iowa State nearly pulled off an upset on Tuesday night.

Iowa State won its first appearance in a New Year’s Six bowl, defeating Oregon to put the finishing touches on the best season the school has seen.