Wow! What a weekend. If you didn’t get a chance to go to the ISU-UNLV football game, you missed out on Cyclone football history.

With the ‘Clones leading, 34-0, in the second quarter I heard that Field of Dreams voice whisper, “If you build it, they will come.” It must be the Jacobson Building.

Now granted, UNLV is no Colorado or Nebraska, but who cares? We beat somebody! In fact, we demolished them!

We held their best rusher to 20 yards, and he was 16th in the nation with 135 yards a game; Touchdown Davis broke almost every record that was held by a Cyclone running back; ISU’s quarterbacks attempted seven passes and completed all of them; all three of the Cyclone tailbacks had major yardage in the game — two of which went over 100 yards.

Just in case you missed some of ISU records that were broken Saturday here is a list of them:

• Troy Davis’ 302 yards rushing is the highest single game total in school history.
• Davis’ five rushing touchdowns is No. 1.
• Davis’ 30 points scored tied for first.
• Davis’ 912 yards is the best ever by an ISU running back in four games.
• Davis joins five running backs in Big Eight history to have 300+ rushing games.
• Graston Norris had the second longest run in school history with a 91-yard touchdown run.
• Norris also had his first 100-yard rushing game with 128 yards.
• ISU had a school record eight rushing touchdowns, breaking the old record of six vs. Kansas St. in 1976.
• The Cyclones had 586 rushing yards, which beat the old record by 141 yards.
• The offense tied a school record with 22 rushing first downs.
• The team’s average of 8.4 yards a carry beats the old record of 7.3 per rush from a game in 1949.
• McCarney is the first Cyclone coach to be at .500 in his first four games since former Cyclone coach Earl Bruce did it in his inaugural 1973 season.

As you can see, anyone who went to Saturday’s game got an eyeful, and if you were a sports writer in the press box, you received a notebook full of statistics, records, names and numbers.

Through this mound of stats, it was good to see McCarney bring in the second and third stringers. Some people have brought up the fact that he could have left Davis in and let him take the all-time single game rushing record of 396 yards.

But who’s to say Davis wouldn’t have been injured in that quest for yardage? It was a smart move by McCarney to take him out and plus, it helps some of the other players on the team get a chance — case in point, Graston Norris.

McCarney showed his class in that decision and also in his choice to go ahead and down the ball to run out the time — even though the Cyclones were on UNLV’s nine-yard line.

Way to go Coach.

And with all this talk about records being broken, the women’s soccer team, which is a brand new sport at ISU this year, won their first game ever on Saturday — to top it all off, it was their first home game.

Maybe all of the records that were broken this weekend will be broken again someday, but at least I can say I saw a part of ISU football history.

I still think it was the Jacobson Building though.

Jason Howland is a senior in journalism from Riceville. He is the sports editor of the Daily.