There are quarterbacks who’ve thrown for extra yards than Iowa State’s Rocco Becht, accomplished a better proportion of their passes than Becht and tossed extra landing passes than Becht.
Nonetheless, Cyclones coach Matt Campbell, whose Eleventh-ranked group tries to increase its season-opening successful streak to 6 on Saturday night time at West Virginia, is adamant that he would relatively have nobody working his group than Becht.
“He is enjoying nearly as good as anybody proper now and I am actually happy with what he is executed,” Campbell mentioned. “It is not the primary learn, it is the second, third or fourth learn within the development. It tells you his moxie and his development.”
Becht displayed all of the qualities Campbell talked about final week throughout a 43-21 Large 12 Convention win towards Baylor, hitting 16 of 25 passes for 277 yards and two touchdowns with one interception. The yardage whole was his season excessive.
Becht is hitting practically two-thirds of his passes thus far for 1,173 yards with 9 scores and solely three interceptions. However the numbers and particular person accolades imply little to him. So, too, does this system’s first 5-0 begin since 1980.
“It simply implies that we have gotta win this subsequent one,” Becht mentioned of the unbeaten mark, which features a 2-0 convention file. “5 and 0 is superior and I am gonna maintain saying it, however we’re 0-0 proper now and we simply have to go game-by-game.”
Jayden Higgins has been Becht’s favourite goal thus far with 33 catches for 403 yards, whereas Jaylin Noel offers a big-play menace, averaging 18.8 yards on 24 receptions. Three totally different backs have rushed for at the least 200 yards, with Japanese Michigan switch Jaylon Jackson compiling a team-high 295 yards.
West Virginia (3-2, 2-0) is trying to make a press release that it might probably contend for the convention title. The Mountaineers actually seemed the half final week towards struggling Oklahoma State with a 38-14 rout in Stillwater.
West Virginia outgained the Cowboys 558-227, speeding for a whopping 389 yards on 65 makes an attempt and controlling the ball for practically 43 minutes. Jahiem White rolled up 158 yards and a landing on simply 19 carries, whereas quarterback Garrett Greene added 86 yards on the bottom and threw for 159.
Coach Neal Brown mentioned the Mountaineers might get one other weapon again within the passing recreation this week. Justin Robinson, who missed the previous two video games because of an undisclosed damage, has an opportunity to return to the lineup.
“He practiced (Monday) and I feel he’ll be again,” Brown mentioned. “He was near enjoying final week. There’s no one that is undoubtedly out as of proper now.”
Greene has thrown for 1,061 yards and rushed for 295, spraying completions round to a dozen totally different receivers. In the end, the sport might come down as to if the Mountaineers’ protection, which is permitting 25.6 factors per recreation, can discover methods to get stops and maybe give the West Virginia offense good discipline place towards a protection yielding solely 10 factors per recreation.
West Virginia owns a 6-5 lead within the sequence, which began when it joined the Large 12 in 2012. Iowa State received the newest assembly 31-14 in 2022.
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