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Football: With ground game stuck in place, ISU out to get it moving again

Iowa State's quarterback Sam Richardson gets taken down Iowa linebackers Cole Fisher and Josey Jewell last Saturday. The Cyclones are averaging 70.0 rushing yards per game this season. File Photo by Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune

Wendell Taiese doesn’t need to be reminded of the numbers. He lived through it as Iowa State gained only 66 second-half yards and only six on the ground against Iowa.

Days later, the memories are still fresh. The emotions still there from the subpar performance.

And the only way for Taiese, and the Cyclones, to completely move past them is by moving the chains against Toledo on Saturday (7 p.