After watching the trash can fire that was the Iowa/ MSU game, I watched the Georgia/Tennessee game. Watching the top tier SEC teams (and middle tier like UT) makes me feel like its a totally different game. It's like the difference between watching the SEC verses the NFL. The talent and skill desparity between low level B1G teams (Iowa) and high level SEC teams is embarrassing. The gap is wider and wider every year. I don't expect Iowa to be Alabama or LSU, but I don't expect them to play MAC team level football, or lower than MAC this year apparently.
UGA vs Tenn different sport than Iowa.
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ssckelley
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The SEC is on a whole different level right now and I do not see it changing anytime soon. They have a huge recruiting advantage in the south with the better temperatures and obsession they have for their football teams. Right now we have teams in the B1G that would struggle to compete in the MAC. Ohio State is about the only program we have in the B1G that could compete for the SEC championship. The talent coming out of Ohio rivals what the SEC gets in the south and tOSU gets the cream of the crop every year.
hawkinn3
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I used to say, and truly believed and still do, that up until 2010 we could hang with anybody. We can't beat anybody but we could keep it close. (We all know the flipside of that is we let inferior teams hang with us)
However, beginning in 2011 and becoming obvious this year, we don't have the athletes on defense to keep games close with all teams. MSU's QB is abyssmal and he shredded us. OSU should put up 50 on us.
However, beginning in 2011 and becoming obvious this year, we don't have the athletes on defense to keep games close with all teams. MSU's QB is abyssmal and he shredded us. OSU should put up 50 on us.
tm3308
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The offense being on the field for all of 22:47 probably had something to do with that. The defense was out there forever.
UTKSam
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I am an Iowa fan and University of Tennessee student. A. Tennessee is not a middle tier SEC team right now. Just the week before Tennessee almost lost to South Alabama. We are in complete rebuilding mode with a lot of our talent being guys who wouldn't start on Iowa's team right now. I watch both teams and conferences regularly, Iowa could beat Tennessee, and quite frankly a few SEC teams. However, I agree with you that the SEC is on another level but the B1G isn't as far off as people think IMO.
okeefe4prez
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Which one of these guys are you:
[video=youtube;keTbsSfMOdI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keTbsSfMOdI[/video]
Eda
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Agreed. Not getting a first down until 5 minutes left in the 2nd quarter was terrible for the defense. The defense was shredded because they MSU was on the field for so long. Not because they were head and shoulders ahead of us.
There is a huge speed disparity between the two leagues, top to bottom, and position corp by position corp, especially skill positions.
Bama can have a Trent Richardson type runner (size and speed) or two of them every year, and they do, and Iowa has one once every 15-20 years
We should have a McNutt and DJK type receiver each on the team at all times, two good receivers, each year but not close
Bama can have a Trent Richardson type runner (size and speed) or two of them every year, and they do, and Iowa has one once every 15-20 years
We should have a McNutt and DJK type receiver each on the team at all times, two good receivers, each year but not close
DodgerHawki
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This is the challenge facing every team basically north of Oklahoma, extending east through Tennessee and over to the Atlantic Ocean. The demographics for teams in the B1G and the northern teams from the Big 12 are very difficult to overcome. Population shifts and population growth in the south compared to the north is significant.
There has been a lot written about this by Jon and others on the site, but there is no easy answer to this. Without the BTN and the extra money it is bringing in to the conference, the B1G would be facing an even more bleak future in football than it already does.
Yes, Iowa and other B1G teams can do a better job of recruiting in the south and all of that, but that only goes so far. The northern teams can "spend more time" in Florida, Texas, etc., but in the end those players are (in general) going to stay closer to home rather than going hundreds of miles away if they have a choice between going to Florida/Florida State/Alabama or Iowa.
I always wondered why Ferentz never does the whole "fumble into the endzone for a touchback play". I mean it seems like something straight out of his playbook. I still wonder why we didn't just run backwards for three straight safeties at the end of the Iowa State or Minnesota game to run out the clock and keep field position. But fumbling into and out of the endzone would give our defense good field position for a possible fourth quarter stand.
HawkPrdatr40
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Dude you really think Iowa beats Tennessee right now and few other teams in the SEC. Now that is good..
ssckelley
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They have some of the same recruiting advantages that the SEC has, so it is not surprising. I am hoping that Oregon can finally knock the SEC off their perch in the BCS game. The NC is starting to become a joke with the SEC winning it every year. Heck they might as well crown the SEC title game winner of the NC.
Iowa wouldn't come close to taking Georgia to OT. The 2013 Iowa team would beat Kentucky, Vanderbilt, maybe Arkansas and would be underdogs against every other SEC team.
