Mademyaccount4u
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For me, Iowa is early in the season and is a benchmark. Typically if they win against Iowa, they have a chance to go to a bowl. If they don't, and especially if they get blown out, the season is functionally over.
And again, this is the reason I am for dropping the game.
I don't know if you listen to the On Iowa podcast, but this summer they did a bunch of "a whole 'nother podcast" one of them, June 26th I believe, goes over why and why not have the Iowa/ISU game. It's fantastic, obviously from an Iowa perspective, but one of the reasons they mentioned was that ISU could certainly use 3 wins every year OOC given the structure of the Big 12. It would really help the program if they only had to win 3 or even 2 conference games to go to a bowl.