1987 Iowa State Cyclones football team

1987 Big Eight Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1987 Iowa State Cyclones football
1987 Iowa State Cyclones football
Conference	Big Eight Conference
1987 record	3–8 (2–5 Big Eight)
Head coach	Jim Walden (1st season);
Offensive coordinator	Norm Andersen
Defensive coordinator	Robin Ross
Home stadium	Cyclone Stadium; (Capacity: 48,000)
	Seasons ← 1986 1988 →

The 1987 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. Home games were played on campus at Cyclone Stadium in Ames, Iowa, and they were members of the Big Eight Conference. The Cyclones were led by first-year head coach Jim Walden, previously the head coach at Washington State in the Pac-10 for nine seasons.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 12	7:30 p.m.	at Tulane*	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA	WOI/KOIA (delay) Closed circuit in Iowa^[2]	L 12–25	27,561
September 19	12:10 p.m.	Iowa*	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA (Battle for the Cy-Hawk Trophy)	WOI/KCRG/KTIV/KIMT KOIA/WQAD/KPTM	L 9–48	54,101
September 26	2:00 p.m.	at Wyoming*	War Memorial Stadium Laramie, WY	WOI/KOIA (delay)	L 17–34	18,386
October 3	1:00 p.m.	No. 1 Oklahoma	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA	PPV/WOI (delay)	L 3–56	36,050
October 10	1:00 p.m.	Northern Iowa*	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA	WOI (delay)	W 39–38	46,515
October 17	1:00 p.m.	Missouri	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA (rivalry)	WOI (delay)	L 17–42	35,888
October 24	1:00 p.m.	at Kansas	Memorial Stadium Lawrence, KS	WOI/KOIA (delay)	W 42–28	28,300
October 31	1:00 p.m.	Colorado	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA	WOI (day)	L 10–42	34,920
November 7	1:30 p.m.	at No. 2 Nebraska	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE	WOI (delay)	L 3–42	76,001
November 14	1:30 p.m.	Kansas State	Cyclone Stadium Ames, IA (rivalry)	WOI (delay)	W 16–14	33,516
November 21	1:30 p.m.	at No. 13 Oklahoma State	Lewis Field Stillwater, OK	WOI (delay)	L 27–48	33,400
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll All times are in Central time

Iowa State at Nebraska

	1	2	3	4	Total
Cyclones	0	0	3	0	3
• Cornhuskers	14	14	7	7	42

^ Devlin, Vince (December 16, 1986). "It's official: Walden's gone". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. B1.
^ (1) September 12, 1987 (Page 9 of 30). Des Moines Register (1871-2008) 1987 Sep 12(69):9.
^ "Iowa State Football Record Book" (PDF). Iowa State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-06. Retrieved November 25, 2014.

v t Iowa State Cyclones football
Venues	Clyde Williams Field (1915–1974) Jack Trice Stadium (1975–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Iowa (Cy-Hawk Trophy) Kansas State (Farmageddon) Missouri (Telephone Trophy)
Culture & lore	History Cy the Cardinal "ISU Fights" Iowa State University Cyclone Marching Band 2011 Oklahoma State game
People	Head coaches All-Americans NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1987 Big Eight Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 3 Oklahoma $	7	–	0	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
No. 6 Nebraska	6	–	1	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
No. 11 Oklahoma State	5	–	2	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
Colorado	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Missouri	3	–	4	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Iowa State	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0
Kansas	0	–	6	–	1	1	–	9	–	1
Kansas State	0	–	6	–	1	0	–	10	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll