Arnaud’s Analysis: Five things to take away from bowl loss

By Austen Arnaud, CycloneFanatic.com Football Analyst Follow Austen on Twitter @ADArnaud Former Cyclone quarterback Austen Arnaud’s thoughts on Iowa State’s 27-13 Pinstripe Bowl loss to Rutgers… Turnovers/QB Play – I wish I could write that this was the first time Iowa State struggled with turnovers in 2011.  Rutgers did play well on defense and forced Iowa State to make mistakes, especially when it came to the decision making of the quarterbacks.  Jared Barnett fumbled once on a play where he arguably held onto the ball too long and Steele Jantz made a couple bad throws. This may seem like a small number of plays but to give a team like Rutgers three more opportunities to score is hard to come back from.  Also, it just seemed as the game continued that it was nearly impossible for these quarterback’s to find a rhythm and continue to hit receivers consistently. Towards the end of the game, the Cyclones were moving the football but this was largely because Rutgers w...