Surprising...? OWH picking Iowa to win the West

[EMik21]

I came across this article today looking at what bordering states journalists had to say about Iowa. For the most part, not a bad write up, but they don't give CJB near enough credit in this article. Looks like our "rival" fanbase to the West is paying a bit more attention to the Hawks.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/footba...cle_dba91e17-ec79-5610-ba13-dd8c2ba35edb.html

 

[HuckFinn]

Great read! Thanks for sharing.

 

[MoseSchrute]

The bad news is....I don't think Sam has ever called this correctly.

 

[HawkeyeTech]

Love the comments. Fusker fans are still reaching back to the 60's to validate their program.

 

[1hawkeye1]

Interesting article, but I gotta agree with the OP. This quote left me . " Iowa has only a marginally better quarterback than Minnesota and Nebraska"

 

[NEIChawk]

Interesting article, but I gotta agree with the OP. This quote left me . " Iowa has only a marginally better quarterback than Minnesota and Nebraska"

When did they start legalizing pot in Omaha??? Marginally better? WTF Sam....

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Love the comments. Fusker fans are still reaching back to the 60's to validate their program.

Most of that was from one guy who started out his argument with "Nebraska has had 3 losing seasons since 1961, lol Iowa has had 23 in that same time."

In his favor Nebraska does have four consecutive decades as an elite team, 60's, 70's. 80's, 90's. Iowa by contrast was a doormat over much of the 60's & 70's, totaling 16 "losing seasons" over that stretch. The other notable losing stretch for Iowa was the three season losing streak covering Fry's last year and Ferentz's first two. Outside of that there were two losing seasons under Fry 1989 & 1992 and two losing seasons under Ferentz 2006 & 2012.

Since Nebraska 2001 rose bowl year, the two teams have been comparable. Nebraska and Iowa have the exact same win total of 116 games over that period. Iowa has had higher peaks in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2015. Nebraska has had more 8 & 9 win seasons, six compared to Iowa's three. Nebraska has had three losing seasons over that span to Iowa's two.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Since 2001 how have the teams in the Big Ten & (former) Big Twelve done.
(Total Wins)

#2 Oklahoma 148
#3 Ohio State 143
#8 Wisconsin 132
#9 Texas 131
#20 Oklahoma State 118
#22t Iowa 116
#22t Nebraska 116
#24 Missouri 114
#25t Michigan State 113
#29t Penn State 112
#29t Michigan 112
#32t Texas Tech 111
#36t Kansas State 105
47 Texas A&M 100
56 Rutgers 94
58t Northwestern 92
65t Maryland 88
68t Baylor 86
68t Minnesota 86
83 Purdue 76
98t Colorado 64
98t Iowa State 64
101t Kansas 62
105 Illinois 61 ????WTF????
109 Indiana 56

I purposely left TCU out because they got most of their wins outside a power conference.