The 2025 season's largest margin: Iowa State 55, South Dakota 7. A 48-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2025 — The Winning Chapter
Iowa State's 2025 season (8-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Rocco BechtQB2,565 passing yards
- Carson HansenRB950 rushing yards
- Abu Sama IIIRB732 rushing yards
- Brett EskildsenWR526 receiving yards
- Chase SowellWR500 receiving yards
- Benjamin BrahmerTE446 receiving yards
- Kooper EbelLB77 tackles
- Marcus NealDB77 tackles
- Caleb BaconLB68 tackles
- Will McLaughlinLB2 sacks
- Tamatoa McDonoughDL2 sacks
Season leaders, 2025.
The season's deepest loss: Iowa State 27, BYU 41. A 14-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Clones"
2025 is a middle chapter for Iowa State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.