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The Texas Christian University Postmortem

THAT WASN'T VERY CHRISTIAN.

There's honestly something to be said about night games at Iowa State.

It's been almost four years since Joe Tessitore uttered that fateful phrase as the tides changed against Oklahoma State: "There's something special in the air here in Ames, Iowa!" And that something special is no less of a real thing now than it was then.

Granted, those Cyclones went on to dethrone the No. 2 team in the country that night, gaining bowl eligibility and snatching the national spotlight for a week.

Those Cyclones flirted with something special and then went on and did it.