Per ESPN 1 - 49 - 2

[MyCyView]

Iowa State vs Top 5... Glad I was there!

 

[HFCS]

Iowa State vs Top 5... Glad I was there!

I would guess a lot of non traditional powers have some pretty horrible records…but there's no real sugar coating that.

 

[cyhawkdmb]

How ****** would you be to tie a top 5 team!?!?!! TWICE!

 

[Clonefan94]

Iowa State vs Top 5... Glad I was there!

Link or it isn't true, at least that's what I'm telling myself.

 

[HFCS]

Link or it isn't true, at least that's what I'm telling myself.

We could get things turned around if we could have kept that coaching staff.

 

[tejasclone]

One of the ties is the 23-23 game when ISU was #17 and Nebraska #3 in Ames in 1972, where I believe ISU missed the PAT at the end of regulation that would have won the game (how very ISU of us, btw).

What's the other one?

 

[83Clone]

Probably at OU in the early 80's when Alex Giffords missed a chip shot that would have won the game

 

[NickTheGreat]

I'd be curious to see a cumulative list of other programs

 

[CyinCo]

Probably at OU in the early 80's when Alex Giffords missed a chip shot that would have won the game

OU was AP 5 in 1981. If that is the game you referenced, we tied that one 7 to 7.

 

[CycloneErik]

This needs to be here. Nothing changes this game.

[video=youtube;AA3YXFo2K9M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA3YXFo2K9M[/video]

 

[Wesley]

This needs to be here. Nothing changes this game.

[video=youtube;AA3YXFo2K9M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA3YXFo2K9M[/video]

That is the Only One.

 

[TykeClone]

I'd be curious to see a cumulative list of other programs

And how many other perennially bad programs played the same number of top 5 games.

 

[ISUKyro]

And how many other perennially bad programs played the same number of top 5 games.

Not sure, but that could be an interesting project to put together.

 

[MyCyView]

Link or it isn't true, at least that's what I'm telling myself.

Get back in the closet

 

[HFCS]

And how many other perennially bad programs played the same number of top 5 games.

The usual suspects would be ISU, Vandy, KU, Northwestern, Indiana, Washington State, probably missing a few. Miss St is good now but they've been a whipping boy for long periods. Depends on the time frame, if you'er going recently Big Ten teams don't play enough top teams, if you're going historically they do. ACC teams probably never played that high a % of top 5 teams.

 

[TykeClone]

The usual suspects would be ISU, Vandy, KU, Northwestern, Indiana, Washington State, probably missing a few. Miss St is good now but they've been a whipping boy for long periods. Depends on the time frame, if you'er going recently Big Ten teams don't play enough top teams, if you're going historically they do. ACC teams probably never played that high a % of top 5 teams.

The Big X+VI, SEC and Pac X+II all have had schedules for a long time where it was possible to miss the top teams (we did too during the big XII, but now we seem to hit a couple top 5/year).

I kind of suspect that there are few teams of our caliber who have played that many top 5 games.

 

[dualthreat]

One of the ties is the 23-23 game when ISU was #17 and Nebraska #3 in Ames in 1972, where I believe ISU missed the PAT at the end of regulation that would have won the game (how very ISU of us, btw).

What's the other one?

Yeah but can you name the 49?!

 

[VeloClone]

Yeah but can you name the 49?!

Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
...
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
...

That probably takes care of about half of them.

 

[Clonefan94]

Get back in the closet

Geez, just trying to poke a little fun at everyone on here who asks for a link when someone posts a fact. Well, that and the fact that I try to block out how bad ISU football really is.

 

[besserheimerphat]

Emailing Pollard now, requesting that we only play Top 5 teams until this improves. I refuse to accept mediocrity!