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It happens pretty often actually and not just in air raid offenses. Purdy completed 80% of his passes on Saturday and has a career 66.5% completion %, and no offense but people around here think he's not that good.

Maybe. ISU generally comes out in a pretty base set on defense especially at the beginning of the game with very little blitzing. I think they like to see if they can stop the run with the 3 down before they start making any changes. At least for the first quarter I bet it will be very vanilla.

Yeah, it's certainly more interesting when both teams are good and the games have been very good college football games the last few years which has been a lot of fun. But ultimately I don't think either team will be competing for the playoff so it doesn't have big implications either way.

I think there is a lot wrong with this post, no offense. ISU isn't a pass happy team. Last year ISU QB's threw 372 passes, and there were 446 rushing attempts, so they basically ran 54.5% of the time. Iowa ran it 53.7% of the time last year. The Big 12 really isn't as pass focused as it has...

UNI isn't that good and there is no excuse for not beating them worse. Just is what it is.

Nope. Let's be honest - there are two leagues that are going to command dollars, that's the SEC and the Big 10. Everybody else is going to be lagging behind significantly. My hot take is think the new Big 12 deal will be on par with what the PAC 12 and the ACC get.

This is false now - they hired like several football production guys and they are taking over the NFL on Thursday production. They will be in production of games, it's just a matter of how much they expand.

It can't be any of the existing players. CBS or NBC or whatever can't be the one to roll in because you're right, they aren't going to pay enough. It has to be a streamer. Amazon I think is the only one who makes sense because they are the only one that seems to be interested sports.

Yeah, I think this conference would be pretty competitive. I think it solidifies the Big 10 and SEC as the two premier conferences in the country and everybody else is somewhere below them. The new Big 12 would lack a headliner and unfortunately those schools drive a lot of the TV revenue. I...

Should be fun, although with everything happening between the Big 12 and ESPN right now I think the excitement level among fans is pretty low to have Gameday back. The scenes from last time of people swarmed around the stage I don't think will happen at all. Good luck this week. As far as who...

It was empty. The only reason the Pac12 is safe as a conference is because they are geographically isolated.

FYI lots of rumors College Gameday will be back in Ames if we both win Navy-Air Force was picked up by CBS and CBS will be on location so it probably doesn't work now for Gameday.

As an ISU fan in the short term I'm concerned about Michigan and Penn State, because I think Franklin could be moving on after this year. Michigan especially I think would fit him well just because I think his style of play would fit well with what they had success with Carr and Bo for so many...

This is what made me say SC: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32119289/grad-assistant-zeb-noland-start-quarterback-south-carolina-gamecocks-sources-say A guy who couldn't start at ISU, transferred to NDSU, couldn't start there, went to SC as a grad assistant is now going to be...

Good point, I'm wrong about SC. I was trying to just think of a team in each of the conferences and just landed there only because their program is in a bad spot right now. That wasn't fair, I should have gone for Vandy or something I just thought that was too obvious.

This was precisely my point. Teams that people actually don't care about will end up reaping huge rewards just because cable companies can extort people who live near them for more money.

Finally this is what I absolutely hate about college sports right now. There was a ton of "the Big 10 should get USC and UCLA!" UCLA only has value because of where the university is located. They had a game with fairly big ratings against USC last year (3.24 million viewers) but also had games...

I mean that might be true but I don't think the lack of rivalries has anything to do with that to be honest. If ISU was good, they would be viewed more, as 2020 proved.

Catching IL early, when they have a new coaching staff, their QB gets injured right away, and they don't have much depth on an extremely hot day wasn't good? Sounds like an ideal situation to me actually. Neb just sucks.

I was driving back from KC and found the Husker radio network and I listened to basically the entire first half on the drive home. Listening to a couple of those sequences (INT overturned and 30 yards of penalties, Punt return safety, etc) from Husker broadcasters was absolutely hilarious. I was...