{"id":122369,"date":"2025-08-06T01:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122369\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:37:12","slug":"iowa-state-ranks-no-21-in-usa-todays-preseason-top-25-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122369\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State ranks No. 21 in USA Today&#8217;s preseason Top 25 poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Cyclones&#8217; first appearance on the list since 2021, when they were ranked 8th.<\/p>\n<p>AMES, Iowa \u2014 In just a couple of weeks, the college football season will be underway, and with that comes the preseason polls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iowa State earned a spot on <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/coaches-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">USA Today&#8217;s preseason Top 25 Coaches Poll<\/a> Monday, coming in at No. 21 \u2014 tied with Texas A&amp;M. This is the Cyclones&#8217; first appearance on the list since 2021, when they were ranked 8th. That season came to a close with a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclones.com\/news\/2021\/12\/29\/football-clemson-tops-iowa-state-in-cheez-it-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cheez-It Bowl loss<\/a> to Clemson.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa State&#8217;s Week 0 opponent this season,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareiowa.com\/article\/sports\/college\/iowa-state\/iowa-state-football-schedule-release-2025-kansas-state-ireland-big-12\/524-5063d9fc-8b09-471c-8acf-ba88e20a970b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0Kansas State<\/a>, landed above them in the rankings this year at No. 20, so fans have a Top-25 matchup to look forward to in Ireland later this month.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the next team Iowa State will play that was ranked in the poll will be No. 23 BYU on Oct. 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the Cyclones&#8217; first appearance on the list since 2021, when they were ranked 8th. AMES, Iowa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-122369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114979265523234400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}