1987 Iowa State Cyclones football team

1987 Big Eight Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1987 Iowa State Cyclones football
1987 Iowa State Cyclones football
Conference	Big Eight Conference
Record	3–8 (2–5 Big 8)
Head coach	Jim Walden (1st season);
Defensive coordinator	Robin Ross (1st season)
Home stadium	Cyclone Stadium ; (capacity: 48,000)
	Seasons ← 1986 1988 →

Last updated February 04, 2023

The 1987 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. Home games were played on campus at Cyclone Stadium in Ames, Iowa, and they were members of the Big Eight Conference. The Cyclones were led by first-year head coach Jim Walden, previously the head coach at Washington State in the Pac-10 for nine seasons.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 12	7:30 p.m.	at Tulane *	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	WOI/KOIA (delay) Closed circuit in Iowa^[2]	L 12–25	27,561	^[3]
September 19	12:10 p.m.	Iowa *	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA ( Battle for the Cy-Hawk Trophy )	WOI/KCRG/KTIV/KIMT KOIA/WQAD/KPTM	L 9–48	54,101
September 26	2:00 p.m.	at Wyoming *	War Memorial Stadium Laramie, WY	WOI/KOIA (delay)	L 17–34	18,386
October 3	1:00 p.m.	No. 1 Oklahoma	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA	PPV/WOI (delay)	L 3–56	36,050
October 10	1:00 p.m.	Northern Iowa *	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA	WOI (delay)	W 39–38	46,515
October 17	1:00 p.m.	Missouri	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA ( rivalry )	WOI (delay)	L 17–42	35,888
October 24	1:00 p.m.	at Kansas	Memorial Stadium Lawrence, KS	WOI/KOIA (delay)	W 42–28	28,300
October 31	1:00 p.m.	Colorado	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA	WOI (day)	L 10–42	34,920
November 7	1:30 p.m.	at No. 2 Nebraska	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE	WOI (delay)	L 3–42	76,001
November 14	1:30 p.m.	Kansas State	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA (rivalry)	WOI (delay)	W 16–14	33,516
November 21	1:30 p.m.	at No. 13 Oklahoma State	Lewis Field Stillwater, OK	WOI (delay)	L 27–48	33,400
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

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Game summaries

Iowa

at Oklahoma

at Nebraska

Iowa State at Nebraska

	1	2	3	4	Total
Cyclones	0	0	3	0	3
•Cornhuskers	14	14	7	7	42

Date: November 7
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,001

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References

↑ Devlin, Vince (December 16, 1986). "It's official: Walden's gone". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. B1.
↑ (1) September 12, 1987 (Page 9 of 30). Des Moines Register (1871-2008) 1987 Sep 12(69):9.
↑ "Cyclones get A+ for effort". The Gazette. September 13, 1987. Retrieved February 7, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
↑ "Iowa State Football Record Book" (PDF). Iowa State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-06. Retrieved November 25, 2014.

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[ioffwgn-1] Devlin, Vince (December 16, 1986). "It's official: Walden's gone". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. B1.

[2] (1) September 12, 1987 (Page 9 of 30). Des Moines Register (1871-2008) 1987 Sep 12(69):9.

[3] "Cyclones get A+ for effort". The Gazette. September 13, 1987. Retrieved February 7, 2022– via Newspapers.com.

[4] "Iowa State Football Record Book" (PDF). Iowa State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-06. Retrieved November 25, 2014.

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1987 Big Eight Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 3 Oklahoma $	7	–	0	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
No. 6 Nebraska	6	–	1	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
No. 11 Oklahoma State	5	–	2	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
Colorado	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Missouri	3	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Iowa State	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Kansas	0	–	6	–	1	1	–	9	–	1
Kansas State	0	–	6	–	1	0	–	10	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll