ISU's Super Bowl?!?!

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IowaFan81

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Read and decide for yourself.

http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=big12&id=72119

To Washington it sounds like it. Here's some quotes.

"This is the most important game of my career thus far,â€￾ the Cyclones senior said. “This is a must win, if any game is a must win. In order to get back where we want to be, we need to win this game.â€￾

"We kind of looked past UNI and focused on this Iowa week,â€￾ Washington said.

Said Washington: “I think if we win this one, [Cyclone fans] will forgive us and we can get this party bus back rolling again. And that’s what we plan to do.â€￾
 
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A Cyclone fan on here said earlier this week that Oklahoma is their Super Bowl, so no, Iowa is not ISU's Super Bowl. Oklahoma is the most important game Iowa State will play this year.
 
okeefe4prez said:
A Cyclone fan on here said earlier this week that Oklahoma is their Super Bowl, so no, Iowa is not ISU's Super Bowl. Oklahoma is the most important game Iowa State will play this year.
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Yes, because after the UNI game taking down Oklahoma is a realistic possibility for the Clowns.
 
tubahawk said:
Yes, because after the UNI game taking down Oklahoma is a realistic possibility for the Clowns.
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You never know when a team will turn the ball over nearly 10 times. Riddle me this, who has more wins against Nebraska in the past 25 years - Iowa or Iowa State? Rhoads has a program on the rise coming together in Ames and he has reached the point where dominating Iowa is a foregone conclusion, so now he has his eyes on a bigger prize - the Big 12. It's similar to what Fitz has done with Northwestern - first he wanted to regularly beat Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue, Indiana, etc. and now he has shifted his focus to Michigan and Ohio State. We don't understand this in IC because the only times we have even been remotely close to winning the Big Ten are years where we don't have to play OSU or OSU and/or Michigan are way down. Texas is down this year and so this probably ISU's year to win the Big 12 IF they can beat Oklahoma. Saturday is just another game for them, boys.
 
okeefe4prez said:
A Cyclone fan on here said earlier this week that Oklahoma is their Super Bowl, so no, Iowa is not ISU's Super Bowl. Oklahoma is the most important game Iowa State will play this year.
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If OK wanted to they could hang 50 on the clones before half this year. Isu has d-1aa talent this year.
 
FreedComanche said:
If OK wanted to they could hang 50 on the clones before half this year. Isu has d-1aa talent this year.
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Based on what? One game? Please. They have a good team and a great coach, they just came out flat. Had we lost to UNI in 2009 on a fluke kick at the end of the game, would you have said Iowa had D-1AA talent that year? Flukes happen in football, guys. I don't understand why guys don't get it.
 
Chris Williams said that ISU always responds after a bad loss. If CW says it, then it's fact.
 
DJL said:
Chris Williams said that ISU always responds after a bad loss. If CW says it, then it's fact.
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In the aggregate, UNI may have been the best athletic department in Iowa over the past 5 years, so I don't know that I'd call a loss to them a bad one.
 
okeefe4prez said:
In the aggregate, UNI may have been the best athletic department in Iowa over the past 5 years, so I don't know that I'd call a loss to them a bad one.
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Chris Williams called it a bad loss and I don't argue with Chris Williams.
 
That's why this game is scary. I watched the ISU/UNI game and I can safely say ISU looked every bit as awful as that score says. Even in a down year, a BCS team should not lose to an (even good) FCS school. ISU couldn't make a tackle to save their lives. Everything in my brain tells me Iowa is going to dominate the LOS and control the game from start to finish, but I've seen this movie WAY too many times. ISU will figure out how to tackle, they will get pressure, they will cause turnovers and this game will be ugly. Iowa's track record in close, ugly games is terrible.

You could tell me Iowa wins by 1 or 20 and I'd believe you. You could tell me ISU wins by 1 or 20 and I'd believe you too.
 
If ISU went 1-11, but that one win was against Iowa, I strongly doubt the Cyclone faithful would be satisfied. The thing is, this is ISU's top rivalry. Who else would it be? Nebraska and Mizzou left. Kansas and Kansas State? Not really exciting matchups. However, Iowa has Wisconsin and Minnesota, who they've played far more often than ISU. There's Nebraska, which could blow up at anytime, and minor rivalries against Northwestern and Illinois.

So saying the game means more to ISU is probably correct, because they don't have the other rivalries we do.

On that note, Beat State.
 
enmaster said:
If ISU went 1-11, but that one win was against Iowa, I strongly doubt the Cyclone faithful would be satisfied. The thing is, this is ISU's top rivalry. Who else would it be? Nebraska and Mizzou left. Kansas and Kansas State? Not really exciting matchups. However, Iowa has Wisconsin and Minnesota, who they've played far more often than ISU. There's Nebraska, which could blow up at anytime, and minor rivalries against Northwestern and Illinois.

So saying the game means more to ISU is probably correct, because they don't have the other rivalries we do.

On that note, Beat State.
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I'm pretty sure they've played Oklahoma like 75 times. Pretty good rivalry there.
 
DJL said:
Chris Williams said that ISU always responds after a bad loss. If CW says it, then it's fact.
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There is a Nascar, gone fishing joke in there somewhere since my name isn't Bill Envall or Jeff Foxworthy i got nothin. jake Knott actually made the Eagles roster so i guess he is prolly blowing a load over that.
 
How the hell do you look past an opponent? I never understood this and its a weak excuse for a loss. Are you about to make a tackle but right before you do you start thinking about playing Iowa in 2 weeks and let the guy go as you ponder the Iowa game?
 
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