How Hawkeyes' Non-Conference Schedule Stacks Up in B1G

Good article. The 9 game B1G schedule and ISU really puts us in a box. Having said that, would love to see a home-home series with Missouri some day. The closest SEC school to Iowa, easy to travel to a road game for most of the fan base, would just about guarantee a sell out and a lot of interest.

Kudos to Purdue for their scheduling.
 
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RobHowe said:
How does Iowa's non-conference schedule stack up against other members of the Big Ten? I took a look and discussed logistics:

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A very good read and laid out factually. Where I see the rub is in (historically as well as) inferentially comparing Iowa State as a P5 team on the same level as Notre Dame, Stanford, Virginia Tech, UCLA, or even Pitt, Virginia, ASU or Colorado. Not to disparage the team from the school up north, but, well...that's like saying 'but we play Kansas every year".
 
Thanks for reading.

I think it comes more down to the seven home games than the quality of Power 5 opponent. Whether it's Alabama or Iowa State, there's only room home-and-home with one Power 5 in the current construction of the schedule. If we could find a neutral site against a Power 5 that could replace that seventh home game revenue wise, that seems to be the only way to make it work.
 
This is an argument that keeps going in circles. Unless you show us the math, I am calling B.S. on the whole revenue argument.

Rob,
I have the feeling you don't have the info to do this yourself, but maybe you can ask an accounting professor or business professor to provide some actual revenue estimates for the following scenerios

Total revenue, including tv rights for

#1. Iowa plays 7 home games a year, including 2 home games against 2-Non P5 teams each year

2. Iowa plays 7 home games 1 year and 6 home games in alternating years, with 1 home game against a non-P5 school each year.

3. Iowa plays 6 home games each year, with with 1 home game against a non-P5 school each year and 1 neutral site game against a P5 school each year.

4. Iowa plays 6 home games a year, all against P5 schools.

In all scenerios, Iowa plays 9 conference games and Iowa state every year. 5 at home. 5 on the road.
 
Don't kill the messenger.

Iowa's schedule is driven by money. You're simply going to get more money playing seven home games every year than playing seven one year and six on another. That's simple math.

A neutral site game could work if it makes up for losing the home game. Alabama and FSU each made $5M this year for their game. But I don't see Iowa being that kind of a draw.

Iowa is in line with the other conference teams as I laid out in this article. Big Ten teams want to seven home games annually. It's not BS. It's reality.
 
I would love to see Iowa play Missouri under the arch.
Notre Dame would be awesome.

Lose Iowa State is the answer. We lost out on playing Wisconsin because of the Legends and leaders division set up. I think taking time from ISU would be a good thing.
 
I wonder how much backlash there's going to be when they extend the IA/ISU series once again.
 
RobHowe said:
Don't kill the messenger.

Iowa's schedule is driven by money. You're simply going to get more money playing seven home games every year than playing seven one year and six on another. That's simple math.

A neutral site game could work if it makes up for losing the home game. Alabama and FSU each made $5M this year for their game. But I don't see Iowa being that kind of a draw.

Iowa is in line with the other conference teams as I laid out in this article. Big Ten teams want to seven home games annually. It's not BS. It's reality.
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You say it is simple, but I would still like to see the numbers to back it up. It is well known that that Iowa charges different ticket prices based on the level of opponent. It is also known that tv is willing to pay more for a P5 vs. P5 game than a P5 vs. FCS game. So let's see the numbers.
 
guffus said:
You say it is simple, but I would still like to see the numbers to back it up. It is well known that that Iowa charges different ticket prices based on the level of opponent. It is also known that tv is willing to pay more for a P5 vs. P5 game than a P5 vs. FCS game. So let's see the numbers.
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If the money were better playing a Power 5, why wouldn't everybody else do it? It's not like Iowa is out on the island here. I'm not seeing a conspiracy.
 
RobHowe said:
If the money were better playing a Power 5, why wouldn't everybody else do it? It's not like Iowa is out on the island here. I'm not seeing a conspiracy.
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Oh, for crying out loud. Do your job as a reporter and go out and get some real facts. You must have some sources you can talk to.
 
guffus said:
You say it is simple, but I would still like to see the numbers to back it up. It is well known that that Iowa charges different ticket prices based on the level of opponent. It is also known that tv is willing to pay more for a P5 vs. P5 game than a P5 vs. FCS game. So let's see the numbers.
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I tend to agree and who are we kidding the Big Ten Network and TV deals make all these institutions very wealthy. If we got a good P5 TV game that would offset the UNI deal. We kick back somewhere between 350k-400k in a payback to UNI or other FCS team anyway so you lose that part of the gate anyway. CAn't believe there's as much financial incentive as JM stated...Like you said let's see the numbers. I'd just prefer them to say we need to keep scheduling FCS schools because that's the only way FCS can stay in business.
 
guffus said:
You say it is simple, but I would still like to see the numbers to back it up. It is well known that that Iowa charges different ticket prices based on the level of opponent. It is also known that tv is willing to pay more for a P5 vs. P5 game than a P5 vs. FCS game. So let's see the numbers.
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Yeah, I tend to think revenue numbers are less affected by number of home games now with the TV revenues.
 
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