Iowa Up to No. 17 in CFP Rankings

RobHowe said:
Not that it will happen, but the Top 12 teams in the final CFP rankings are the ones under consideration for the New Years Six Bowls.

From wiki: "...to date during the College Football Playoff era (2014 through 2018 seasons), of the 60 teams to play in a New Year's Six game, only six have been ranked lower than 12th."
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Would Iowa be more attractive than a two loss Minnesota team that doesn’t make the B1G championship? I would think yes, we own a head to head win and a much tougher schedule. Plus we travel better, heck Minny had trouble selling out their 50K capacity stadium against PSU.

What are the other rules and stipulations? Is there a max per conference? Is there a non P5 qualifier?

It seems unlikely, but I suppose we want Indiana to knock off Michigan this week. Auburn will likely lose to Bama. Baylor will lose at least one more time (cheer for Texas this weekend).

It would be pretty tough to move up to 12. Just win the next two and see where the chips fall.
 
HuckFinn said:
Well. Number 17 in the nation in the only poll that matters, since it relates to the playoff for a national championship. So, in spite of 3 losses and a mediocre to poor coaching staff, somehow we are right there with the top teams in the country. Guess I will go with their analysis, rather than the continued bitching by team caddy. If we win the next two, and a bowl game, we may even end up in the top 10. Go Hawks!
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Moving up that high will be tough in the playoff poll. Its not nearly as volatile as the other polls.

In the coaches and media poll the 20th ranked team can lose on the road to the 10th ranked team by a point and actually move down in the rankings. This makes zero sense yet it always happens.

Minnesota moved down twice as many spots in the coaches & AP poll than they did the playoff poll after their loss to Iowa.
 
Iowa has played more Top 25 teams than anyone. If they win out, they could push being in the Top 10. Not a lock by any means, but not impossible. They did so in 2003 with 3 losses.
 
RobHowe said:
Not that it will happen, but the Top 12 teams in the final CFP rankings are the ones under consideration for the New Years Six Bowls.

From wiki: "...to date during the College Football Playoff era (2014 through 2018 seasons), of the 60 teams to play in a New Year's Six game, only six have been ranked lower than 12th."
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Would be a nice surprise.

Since the beginning of the New Year's Six, 11 teams with 3 or more losses have been selected to play in one of the non-CFP games.

2014: #9 Ole Miss (9-3), #12 Georgia Tech (10-3, lost the ACCCG)
2015: #12 Ole Miss (9-3)
2016: #11 Florida State (9-3), #9 USC (9-3), and #14 Auburn (8-4!)
2017: #7 Auburn (10-3, lost SECCG)
2018: #10 Florida (9-3), #11 LSU (9-3), #9 Washington (10-3, lost P12CCG), #15 Texas (9-4, lost B12CCG)

Those six ranked lower than #12 include the 2 listed as well as #20 Boise State (2014, 11-2), #18 Houston (2015, 12-1), #15 Western Michigan (2016, 13-0), each of which were the highest ranked G5 team and therefore eligible for one of the slots, and #16 Oklahoma State (2015, 10-2). There has never (nor likely ever will be) been more than one G5 team chosen for the NY6.
 
homes said:
Iowa has played more Top 25 teams than anyone. If they win out, they could push being in the Top 10. Not a lock by any means, but not impossible. They did so in 2003 with 3 losses.
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There would need to be some significant losses ahead to squeeze into the top10 imo, again not impossible. But the next 2 wins aren't going to really push us
 
homes said:
Iowa has played more Top 25 teams than anyone. If they win out, they could push being in the Top 10. Not a lock by any means, but not impossible. They did so in 2003 with 3 losses.
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The schedule this year was pretty brutal but we've done alright. Playing Michigan, Wisconsin, Penn State, Minnesota and Iowa State who are all ranked in the top 22 of the CFP rankings is no joke. The win over Miami Ohio actually looks pretty solid as well since they're in the driver's seat to win the MAC.
 
uihawk82 said:
Yeah, it is hard to believe that they can win out at 9-3 with a hamstrung offense. Say what you will but if the coaches just try to work out some ways to have better offense and more scoring then how much better could their record be.
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With a competent offense (read a guard), Iowa would be 10 - 0 right now and #4 in the country.
 
deanvogs said:
Here is a run down of all 2 or more loss teams in the top 25

Iowa 2-3 vs top 25 teams
Auburn 1-3 vs top 25 teams
ISU 0-4 vs top 25 teams
Oklahoma St. 1-1 vs top 25 teams
USC 1-3 vs top 25 teams
ND 1-2 vs top 25 teams
Michigan 2-2 vs top 25 teams (will be 2-3 after OSU game)
Wisconsin 2-1 vs top 25 teams
Florida 1-2 vs top 25 teams

One loss teams in the top 25

Penn St. 2-1 vs top 25 teams (will be 2-2 after OSU game)
Minnesota 1-1 vs top 25
Baylor 2-1 vs top 25
Utah 1-1 vs top 25
Oregon 2-1 vs top 25
Oklahoma 2-0 vs top 25
Georgia 3-0 vs top 25
Bama 0-1 vs top 25

Zero loss teams

LSU 3-0 vs top 25 vs top 25 teams (Play no more top 25 teams)
Clemson 0-0 vs top 25 teams (will play 0 top 25 teams all year long)
OSU 1-0 vs top 25 teams (play 2 top 25 teams in last 3 weeks)

NOTES:

So everyone who pushes that stupid narrative that we don't beat anyone must be shocked by these numbers. Well no shit, everyone runs up their win total vs bad teams, Clemson is gonna be 12-0 not playing a single top 25 team, Bama is going to play 1 top 25 team and it lost to them. Is the media calling them the FAKE ID'S of college football?

The idea that teams are getting 9, 10, 11 wins vs super strong teams is a fantasy by some. As you can see only 2 teams in the top 25 have more wins over top 25 teams than Iowa does. Sure we have lost some, but who else has had to play 5 top 25 teams? Yeah, nobody has. There is a reason that the zero loss teams and 1 loss teams have played at most 3 top 25 teams. I'd be willing to bet if they had to play an additional 2 top 25 teams they would lose 1 if not 2 of those games.
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Great Analysis!
 
All we can do is win the next couple and see what happens.
At this point I think scoring around 30 and holding them to little to nothing helps our cause.
Everyone knows our defense is legit and is a huge draw for anyone selecting for a bowl.
So it needs to finish the season on a high note.
Our offense needs to show consistency and improvement. We can't have super low scoring games to finish the year and we can't score 50 in one and 13 in the other.
Neither of those scenarios are all that attractive to bowl selection people.

That's what we need to do for our cause.
 
ssckelley said:
Looking at schedules of non P5 schools hoping that enough of them doesn't win 6 games to qualify for a bowl game that way they can go with only 5 wins.
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Well if they lose to Maryland and are hoping for their 5th win against Iowa, they just may have trouble getting to 5.

Can you imagine 4 - 8 again after all that GD hype?!?!?!?!?!
 
RobHowe said:
Not that it will happen, but the Top 12 teams in the final CFP rankings are the ones under consideration for the New Years Six Bowls.

From wiki: "...to date during the College Football Playoff era (2014 through 2018 seasons), of the 60 teams to play in a New Year's Six game, only six have been ranked lower than 12th."
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with the invitational teams becoming the bulk of the at large bids, this number is going to go up. There is a good chance that a 5 loss team will be in the Orange Bowl. Texas was top 12 by a whisker last year.
 
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