CBS Sports "IOWA most underated Big Ten Team"
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HawkPowerlifter
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I like the underdog tag. And my hope (in the past) KF's teams that were not expected to do much often overachieved. I would love to see them shock the world. A 10 win season regardless of a playoff invite would be awesome.
smhawk
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Wouldn't that been the year Iowa got smoked in big ten title game though?
Wundershozen
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Or in the Rose Bowl...
2015 I think that really got started when we lost to Stanford in Rose Bowl. But then he really banged that drum hard in 2019. I think cause we ended up slapping around his precious USC Trojans.
But the point being made of all that was the schedules the BIG west played was significantly softer then those in the east. 2021 when we climbed up to #2 with Petras as our QB was pretty ridiculous. We weren't that good. Beating ISU and then PSU who was #4 at home at night early in the season just over hyped us up. We then lost to lowly Purdue and Wisky and back to earth we came.
It's tough to compare schools with such different schedules around the country. It's why the SEC and BIG are butting heads over the future expansion of the playoffs and how to decide who gets in. They have different ways of scheduling that the other doesn't like and want to try forcing the other to conform on. It'll be interesting as time goes on who budges
NorthKCHawk
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I was watching him over the lunch hour yesterday and he was discussing the Big Ten's proposed mega expansion of the playoffs and how some (like me) believe that this is gutting the core of college football. He disagreed with that and believed that expansion of the playoffs and modeling college football more like the NFL would lead to more compelling games. He then randomly said something like:
"What do you want to watch, Iowa and Purdue play for some golden spittoon every Saturday? That is barely a regional interest."
He definitely has a hard on for bringing up Iowa in terms of things that he deems are boring or of thoroughly average interest to him. He talks for 4 hours a day, so it might be too much for him to have a fresh take on Iowa.
Fryowa
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My comment was more so to say that Iowa getting shitted on is nothing new.
At the end of the day look up the top 15 teams records over the past 20 years and see how many of those teams have resources as small as Iowa's.
I'd rather be consistently really good than be a natty runner up once and dogshit the rest of the time. I'd never trade Iowa's place for a lot of the semi "blue bloods" out there.
NorthKCHawk
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Michigan State just said ouch.
Geez, Fry, you went all 8th-grader on the guys name. Loved it!!
BigD
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Yeah but that's insulting colons and cowturds.
MelroseHawkins
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Was it Indiana last year?
MelroseHawkins
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It doesn't make every conference game meaningful. If expanding that much takes place, teams could have 3-4 losses in conference and still have a chance to make the playoffs. Then all of a sudden, an Ohio St. loss to Michigan doesn't siderail Ohio St's season. Remember all the years, the Iowa vs Wisky matchup would elevated one team and kill the other team's chances? Those days would be over. Football with only 16 games a year needs to have that component. The time a team gets into conference play and EVERY GAME MATTERS! That's my take.
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MelroseHawkins
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written by Riley Donald, Hawkeye Wire. But, he very well could be right, though!
