Iowa's Tough 2019 Football Schedule

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For heaven's sake, read Chad L.'s Hawk Central article about Iowa's 2019 football schedule. What an interesting analysis! And to be clear, NO diss on Hawkeye Nation information. I am a big fan...but, read this one and comment if you wish.
 
Well he's right. We all discussed it in another thread, a loss to ISU doesn't hurt our chances at the b10 championship. It's a kick in the sack, but is no more important in regards to winning the west than any other ooc game by any other team.
Basically if we only lose 1 to Michigan or PSU again he's probably right, we would win it, because we would have beat every other west team meaning they have at least 1 loss and being to us, we would win the head to head.
 
Beat Wisky, Minny, Nebby, Nw, and maybe Purdue. Those are the truly important games. It's great to be ISU and maybe beat Michigan, but winning the division is most important.

I truly want to see us win the division this year and that's frankly all I care about. I'm tired of losing to Becky and NW.
 
" we could have a better team but a worse record"


" you just can't predict the B1G West, everyone is even"
 
Beating Iowa State may not have an impact on the B1G West but it will be a barometer of where Iowa is this year.

On paper, Iowa has 4 easy games, Illinois, Mid Tenn, Miami Ohio and Rutgers. If they lose to Iowa State that puts Iowa 3-1 heading into conference play.

Iowa would need to win 3 of the conference games just to get to a bowl. @Michigan, Penn State, Purdue, @Northwestern, @Wisconsin, Minnesota and @Nebraska. And they are calling this the 10th toughest schedule in the B1G?
 
HawkeyeDenis said:
Beating Iowa State may not have an impact on the B1G West but it will be a barometer of where Iowa is this year.

On paper, Iowa has 4 easy games, Illinois, Mid Tenn, Miami Ohio and Rutgers. If they lose to Iowa State that puts Iowa 3-1 heading into conference play.

Iowa would need to win 3 of the conference games just to get to a bowl. @Michigan, Penn State, Purdue, @Northwestern, @Wisconsin, Minnesota and @Nebraska. And they are calling this the 10th toughest schedule in the B1G?
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I hate to say this, but what it really means and means almost every year is how fast Iowa gets their crap together.
I agree we need to play good ball in November, but almost any given year we would beat them in November. That means either we start really slow or we are even as programs and we just improve more as the season goes on.
I don't think anyone likes either of those answers.
 
I have said this before. A hard schedule like 2019 compared to an easy schedule like 2018 really only makes a difference of 1 game at best.

An easy schedule does not turn a 7-5 team into an 11-1 team, it turns it into an 8-4 team.

The main difference between 2018 and 2019 is Iowa plays Michigan instead of Maryland. Plus everybody they played at home in 2018, they play on the road instead in 2019, and vice versa. So looking at the 4 teams Iowa lost to in 2018, they will play @Wisc and @NW, but PSU and Purdue will be in Iowa City. Pretty much a wash. So again, the main difference in 2019 is Iowa is playing @Mich.
 
Chad’s right and I really enjoy his work. However I think he may be overestimating the difficult of winning big ten west games on the road. I think the only games in the west I would bet on Iowa to cover or win would be Minnesota and Illinois. Every other game is a coin flip at best.
 
racerhawk said:
Beat Wisky, Minny, Nebby, Nw, and maybe Purdue. Those are the truly important games. It's great to be ISU and maybe beat Michigan, but winning the division is most important.

I truly want to see us win the division this year and that's frankly all I care about. I'm tired of losing to Becky and NW.
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I agree with this attitude of setting your goals in order. You can have a series of goals. First, win all your games and that takes care of all goals, but underneath that you want to set goals of winning the west division, winning the Big 10 Champ, going to the playoffs, winning a bowl game whatever it is. I dont think having a winning record should be a goal necessarily as the other goals include it.

If you lose to ISU and the perfect season and probably Natty playoffs are out of the picture then you aim at Big 10 goals and bowl game goals.
 
4thngoal said:
I hate to say this, but what it really means and means almost every year is how fast Iowa gets their crap together.
I agree we need to play good ball in November, but almost any given year we would beat them in November. That means either we start really slow or we are even as programs and we just improve more as the season goes on.
I don't think anyone likes either of those answers.
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I don't think Iowa has the luxury of a slow start this year. If they drop the Iowa State game they need to win another conference game to get to 6 wins. And given the schedule it's going to be tough.
 
The reality is...nobody knows how tough the schedule is/was until November. Teams turn over 20-25% of their players every year. You can go with an average (Wisconsin/Michigan/tOSU are always gonna be tougher than Illinois/Rutgers/Minnesota) but beyond that it's like preseason polls...they're projections.

I'd like to think the KFz slow start is a thing of the past. The catch with ISmoo is... the extra bye week they have and the clear need Campbell has to beat the Hawks. It's the big empty line on his clown resume. They'll come with everything at home...which will make it all the more satisfying when we stomp on their nuts again.
 
I hate that the spin is already blaming a tough schedule.

Why cant the article be about how tough the schedule is and we have a team that is better than anyone on said schedule.

I mean really, We have Purdue and NW and Michigan and Penn St.

Its not Georgia, auburn and LSU/
 
Motigerhawk said:
I hate that the spin is already blaming a tough schedule.

Why cant the article be about how tough the schedule is and we have a team that is better than anyone on said schedule.

I mean really, We have Purdue and NW and Michigan and Penn St.

Its not Georgia, auburn and LSU/
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All four of those teams are liable to be better than Auburn, LSU is hit or miss.
 
HawkeyeDenis said:
Beating Iowa State may not have an impact on the B1G West but it will be a barometer of where Iowa is this year.

On paper, Iowa has 4 easy games, Illinois, Mid Tenn, Miami Ohio and Rutgers. If they lose to Iowa State that puts Iowa 3-1 heading into conference play.

Iowa would need to win 3 of the conference games just to get to a bowl. @Michigan, Penn State, Purdue, @Northwestern, @Wisconsin, Minnesota and @Nebraska. And they are calling this the 10th toughest schedule in the B1G?
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Not 10th toughest in the B1G, 10th toughest in the nation (according to several outlets).
 
CP87 said:
Not 10th toughest in the B1G, 10th toughest in the nation (according to several outlets).
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As per 247 sports Michigan has the tenth spot. Another site has Iowa with the 53rd toughest.
I don't see how this is the tenth toughest in the big ten either. I think it was Mark Rogers who has them at 10th in B1G and 38th nationally
 
Motigerhawk said:
I hate that the spin is already blaming a tough schedule.

Why cant the article be about how tough the schedule is and we have a team that is better than anyone on said schedule.

I mean really, We have Purdue and NW and Michigan and Penn St.

Its not Georgia, auburn and LSU/
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Northwestern finished the season ranked in the AP top 25 three of the last four years. We overlook them.
 
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