Caleb Bacon

Awards:

2025:

Voted All-Big 12 honorable mention...Was a semifinalist for the Comeback Player of the Year award...Earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors (12/1).

2023:

Tabbed to the Lombardi Award Midseason Watch List...Was a Burlsworth Trophy nominee...Earned CSC Academic All-District and Academic All-Big 12 first team accolades.

2022: Selected Academic All-Big 12 first team.

Season:

2025:

Served as team captain...Started all 12 games...Collected 68 tackles (32 solo), 9.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, one forced fumble and three pass breakups.

2024: Started one game...Suffered season-ending injury in season opener.

2023: Played in 13 games...Tallied 60 tackles (36 solo), 6.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, one forced fumble and two pass breakups...Earned scholarship after beginning career as a walk-on.

2022:

Played in 10 games...Made three tackles, all solo.

Game-By-Game:

2025:

vs. Kansas State (8/23): Secured four tackles (three solo)...Had one tackle for loss and a QB hurry.

South Dakota (8/30): Registered four tackles (one solo) and a half-tackle for loss.

Iowa (9/6): Posted six tackles (two solo).

at Arkansas State (9/13): Tallied five stops (two solo)...Added a tackle for loss.

Arizona (9/27): Notched career-high eight tackles (three solo)...Recorded a pass breakup and a QB hurry.

at Cincinnati (10/4): Made five tackles (two solo) and a half-tackle for loss.

at Colorado (10/11): Secured six tackles (two solo), including one for loss.

BYU (10/25): Registered four tackles (one solo)...Had a half-tackle for loss and a pass breakup.

Arizona State (11/1): Collected five tackles (three solo)...Added a tackle for loss and a pass breakup.

at TCU (11/8): Posted career-high tying eight tackles (two solo) and a tackle for loss.

Kansas (11/22): Recorded six tackles (four solo).

at Oklahoma State (11/29): Tallied seven tackles, all solo...Had a career-high three sacks.

2024:

North Dakota (8/31):

Started and suffered season-ending injury.

2023:

Northern Iowa (9/2): Collected five tackles (three solo)...Recorded two sacks for 14 yards.

Iowa (9/9): Assisted on two tackles and added a QB hurry.

at Ohio (9/16): Notched six tackles (four solo) and one tackle for loss...Added three QB hurries.

Oklahoma State (9/23): Tallied four tackles (two solo) and 1.5 tackles for loss.

at Oklahoma (9/30): Made five stops (three solo)...Had one tackle for loss.

TCU (10/7): Assisted on two tackles.

at Cincinnati (10/14): Notched five tackles (two solo) and a QB hurry.

at Baylor (10/28): Registered two tackles and a QB hurry.

Kansas (11/4): Posted two tackles (one solo).

at BYU (11/11): Recorded a sack among four tackles...Forced a fumble.

Texas (11/18): Collected career-high eight tackles (four solo).

at Kansas State (11/25): Secured seven tackles (six solo) and two pass breakups.

Memphis (12/29): Posted eight tackles (five solo) and two QB hurries.

2022:

Baylor (9/24): Recorded a solo tackle.

at Texas (10/15): Notched a solo tackle.

Texas Tech (11/19): Made a solo stop

Played at Lake Mills High School for head coach Bill Byrnes...Led Lake Mills to a playoff appearance as a senior...Named IPSWA and Des Moines Registered first-team all-state as a senior...Was a two-time all-state selection by the IPSWA...Named District Player of the Year twice...Tabbed 2020 Mason City Globe Gazette Defensive Player of the Year...Was a 2021 Iowa Shrine Bowl participant...As a senior, led Iowa Class A in tackles (103) and solo tackles (90), while adding seven tackles for loss, two interceptions and one fumble recovery...As a junior, posted 92 tackles, 77 solo, 21.5 tackles for loss and 7.5 sacks...As a sophomore, secured 46 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks...Also played basketball, earning all-state third-team honors as a senior...Earned his degree in agricultural business at Iowa State...Pursuing a graduate certificate in Organization Development and Change at Penn State.