Hi @Connor_Ferguson - since Woody asked on Kicking It about this, can you pass it along?
Arkansas St is about 1 hour northwest of Memphis in Jonesboro, Arkansas which is about 9.5 hours from Ames. Didn't seem as picturesque as I thought driving home. Jonesboro is a town of ~80K people.
We stayed at the Embassy Suites in Jonesboro the night of the bowl game just to get us closer a drive home the next day.
Turned out that the Embassy Suites is right on campus for Arkansas St just next door from the football stadium so if you want to go to the game ISU plays there in September 2025, I'd recommend staying there. It felt like the hotel was only 5-10 years old and was really nice.
The football team is currently coached by Butch Jones, is in a stadium that holds ~30K people, and had some nice years in 2011-2013 when they were coached by Hugh Freeze (2011), Gus Malzahn (2012), and Bryan Harsin (2013).

Arkansas St is about 1 hour northwest of Memphis in Jonesboro, Arkansas which is about 9.5 hours from Ames. Didn't seem as picturesque as I thought driving home. Jonesboro is a town of ~80K people.
We stayed at the Embassy Suites in Jonesboro the night of the bowl game just to get us closer a drive home the next day.
Turned out that the Embassy Suites is right on campus for Arkansas St just next door from the football stadium so if you want to go to the game ISU plays there in September 2025, I'd recommend staying there. It felt like the hotel was only 5-10 years old and was really nice.
The football team is currently coached by Butch Jones, is in a stadium that holds ~30K people, and had some nice years in 2011-2013 when they were coached by Hugh Freeze (2011), Gus Malzahn (2012), and Bryan Harsin (2013).
