Kansas coach David Beaty this week tabbed Iowa State with an unique label -- the “best 1-8 team in the country,” maybe ever.
So congrats to the Cyclones for that.
There are, in fact, four 1-8 teams in the FBS -- Rice, Bowling Green, Iowa State and, of course, Beaty’s Jayhawks.
As ISU visits Lawrence on Saturday, neither the 46-year-old Beaty, in his second season at KU, nor first-year Iowa State coach Matt Campbell, at 36 the youngest coach of a Power 5 program, has won a conference game. Together, these programs have lost 28 straight in Big 12 play.