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Aiden Flora accounts for 5 TDs as Iowa State outlasts West Virginia in a wild 45-42 victory · Best of: Features

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  Aiden Flora accounted for five TDs as Iowa State outlasts West Virginia
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  in a wild forty five forty two victory. This article is being
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  read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Ames, Iowa, the AP.
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  Aiden Flora accounted for five touchdowns, including the go ahead score with
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  one fifty seven left, and Iowa State held off West Virginia forty
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  five forty two Saturday in a wild game, in which the teams
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  combined for over one thousand yards
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  of offense Iowa State, three two one one Big twelve, came from
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  behind twice in the final seven and a half minutes, and sealed
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  the victory when Benning Goyi forced and recovered a fumble with fifty
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  nine seconds left. Flora ran 22 times for 212 yards, both career
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  highs and three touchdowns. He also threw for two OTDs on halfback
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  passes. Iowa State finished with five hundred and seventy seven yards of
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  offense, and West Virginia with five hundred and eighteen. The one thing
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  ninety five yards were fourthmost in a bowl subdivision game this season,
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  and the combined six seventy one yards were second most in a
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  second half. The Mountaineers, three two zero two, scored touchdowns on four
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  straight possessions, taking a forty two thirty eight lead on Michael Hawkins
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  junior dot quote S forty seven yards pass to DJ Epps with
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  five oh for left. The Cyclones then went seventy for yards.
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  And six plays, with Flora scoring from two yards out for the
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  final margin. Flora's first touchdown pass went for 46 yards and came
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  when he caught a lateral from Jalen Rayner and threw to a
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  wide-open Cody Jackson. Flora's second TD pass came when he took a
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  pitch and flipped the ball two yards to Vince Benetti for a
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  twenty one fourteen halftime lead, and he put The Cyclones up two
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  touchdowns early in the third quarter when he burst twenty four yards
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  up the middle. Rayner completed 19 of 27 passes for 264 yards
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  and Jackson caught six balls for 160 yards. Hawkins ran for two
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  U touchdowns and threw for two others. He and Cam Cook had
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  twenty carries apiece, with Hawkins finishing with one hundred forty nine yards
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  and Cook with one hundred forty two. The takeaway West Virginia. For
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  all their offensive production, the Mountaineers have given up a combined one
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  thousand one hundred and eighty six yards to Oklahoma State and Iowa
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  State in back to back weeks, and are last in the Big
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  twelve in total defense at four hundred fifty six point six per
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  game. Iowa State. The Cyclones entered the game sixteenth, and last in
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  the Big twelve in total offense, at three hundred and forty five
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  point three yards per game. Their total against West Virginia was their
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  highest in a conference game since they amassed six hundred and eight
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  against Texas Tech in twenty sixteen. Up next. West Virginia hosts
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  Arizona next Saturday. Iowa State visits number ten BU on Friday. Sign
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  and see the AP's full college football coverage here.