Saturday. September 24th, 2022

Today I woke up early and brought both kids out to the tailgate lots by 7:00 for a fun day of tailgating and football.  Well, at least the tailgating was fun.  We set up camp under the SW corner overhang of the Scheman building to stay out of the sun.  The kids had plenty of grassy area just to the south to run around and play catch with a football.  I brought some Casey's breakfast pizzas, and others brought biscuits and gravy.  

As for the game, well, it was not as much fun.  Baylor ended up defeating Iowa State, 31-24. The first touchdown drive for Baylor was especially painful to watch, as there was a complete BS targeting penalty called on ISU, which caused Beau Freyler to miss the rest of the game.  That was one of about three terrible 15 yard penalties called on the Cyclones today.  Baylor still made the plays to win the game, but poor officiating definitely adds some frustration to watching games like this.  

Anyways, it was nice to have both of the boys get to watch a game with me at Jack Trice.  Today was the fourth time that I have seen Iowa State play Baylor in football.  The other years were wins in 2018 and 2012, and a loss back when I was an undergrad student in 2005.    This was the 8th football game that Nolan has been to, and his 4th conference game (Oklahoma 2018, Texas Tech 2020, and Kansas State 2021 were the others).  As for Maxwell, this was his 4th football game and second conference game that he has attended (the other was Kansas State 2021).  

Maxwell and Nolan with the view from our seated in section G.