Will you change your game plan against the Huskers? What are your chances of winning the Heisman? Will you take the money and run?

ISU tailback Troy Davis is the target of many of these questions, and not without good reason.

Davis is only 178 yards away from his second consecutive 2,000-yard season, an unprecedented feat.

Yet he remains humble.

“It isn’t all about Troy Davis,”he said Monday. “Team … the team comes first.”

In a season where the team has played with its competition but has fallen just short time and time again, Davis has many individual goals he can still attain.

With a yards-per-game average of 202.4, logic would prove that Davis should easily break the 2,000 barrier before the season ends in Manhattan, Kan.

But logic doesn’t necessarily factor in the two stingy defenses Davis will have to face.

Davis is taking it one game at a time, starting with the Huskers.

“Nebraska has a real good defense, and Iowa State has a good offense,”Davis said. “We’ll go nose to nose and see who’s better.”

The prospect of Davis getting the better of the Nebraska defense is quite possible. The game will be Davis’ last home game of the season and possibly of his career.

How would Davis react if he broke the 2,000-yard barrier?

“Ireally don’t know what I’ll do,”Davis said. “Iknow Nebraska is going to come in pumped up and is going to want to stop me. They won’t want me to get 2,000. If I get 2,000 yards, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

“It will be something special, but I don’t know what I’m going to do yet.”

Breaking the barrier against Nebraska would certainly vault him to the forefront of the Heisman Trophy race.

“That’s something nobody ever did in history,” Davis said. ”All those good players out there and I’d be the first one to do it. That’s something unbelievable. If I do it, I’ve got to be one of the top picks for the Heisman.”

Davis is quick to give credit to the players paving the way for his achievements.

“Our offensive line is one hell of a line,” Davis said. “They give me blocks that I can read. Joe Parmentier is out in front blocking the linebackers … I give all my blockers credit before me.”

But Davis has witnessed the trend of recent Heisman winners. A winning team seems to be a requirement for a player to win the award.

“To win the Heisman, you’ve got to be on a winning team,”Davis said. “But I trust my mind, I trust my offense, I read the blocks and get as many yards as I can.”

With the yards come the accolades. But would they be greater if he were on a winning team?

Davis, a Miami native, said he wouldn’t hear similar praise at one of the Florida schools.

“I would not have that kind of a season at those schools,” he said.

Moving away from Florida and succeeding is one victory that Davis has already won. Early in his collegiate career, he almost moved back.

“I had my bags packed, but Coach [Dan] McCarney said he was going to change to the I-formation,” Davis said.

“I’m glad I stayed.”

The detractors were there for Davis during his high school days. “They’d say I would never make it out,” Davis said. “I showed I can go anywhere in the nation … I’m up here doing the same thing as a big boy.

“Rushing for 2,000 yards as a sophomore … who thought an ISU player would do it?”

With all of the success that Davis has already had, will the junior stick around another year at ISU?

He still hasn’t decided yet.

“After the season, I’m going to sit down and talk to my coaches and parents,” Davis said.

At this time, Davis has other priorities. “Right now I’m thinking about our games, upsetting one of these teams,”he said.

Isn’t the money tempting?

“Getting a degree would be the first thing,” Davis said. ”If football can’t always go on, you’ve got that degree to sit back on. I think a degree comes first before the NFL.”