Dear America - Iowa Doesn't Care What You Think
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Neither of those teams will be ranked at the regular season. Nor will Pitt most likely. As carvers4math said, Pit hasn't beaten a team with a winning record.
Again, this schedule isn't Iowa's fault. But when we look back on it at the end of the year, they will be penalized for it. And rightfully so.
I bet it was a coincidence he wrote it now, right before Iowa's SOS will nose dive while all of the teams he mentioned will increase.
Again, Iowa has done everything they can but they should and will get penalized for a brutally bad schedule at the end of the year.
Which is a bogus complaint when Baylor plays one more conference game in a tougher conference than Iowa faces. When you have no SOS in your conference schedule and you get one extra game to schedule OOC games, of course youre going to have more P5 games there.
No, but it's not like NW or Wisconsin are falling apart. They've only lost to ranked teams and will both be back in the polls.
Want to bet? No way Northwestern ends up in the Top 25. Zero chance. Wisconsin has an outside chance but their remaining schedule is brutally awful too. No more chances for signature wins.
Wisconsin's wins are Miami-OH, Troy, Hawaii, Nebraska, and Purdue...not exactly Top 25 worthy.
Isn't the article whining about a perception problem when reality, as decided by current strength of schedule, doesn't support the perception?
Media reaction and the polls (AP, Coaches, and playoff committee) are dependent on perception. Your using an arbitrary statistic that has no bearing on the perception or actual rank of your team. Is "wins against ranked teams" a stat used to determine poll position? Or is it perception?
When I say "get credit for," I mean that Iowa fans think that a win against No. 19 Wisconsin in Week 5 should hold the same weight all season, no matter how Wisconsin fares the rest of the season. Do you think that is an accurate line of thought?
Iowa and Baylor are on different levels. Criticizing Baylor's schedule is not a bogus complaint in terms of them making the playoffs. Playing a nine game conference schedule hasn't stopped Texas or OU from scheduling quality non-conference games. TCU has been able to play power five teams out of conference. If Baylor's terrible non-conf schedule leads to them getting left out of the playoff with a single loss again, it's their own fault.
At least Pitt still has Duke and Notre Dame on their schedule to test whether they are any good before they would potentially play in conference title game against probably Florida State or Clemson. Iowa really doesn't have much until a conference title game.
That article is ******* terrible. Stop complaining.
Bottom line, if Iowa goes 13-0, they're in the playoffs because they'll get their signature win in the CCG. The odds of four other P5 conferences having undefeated champions are slim - pretty good chance 13-0 automatically puts Iowa in the playoff. Iowa controls it's own destiny, no reason to ***** about it.
That being said, they'll undoubtedly drop one they shouldn't like they do every year - my money is on an 11-1 finish with a loss @ Indiana. Which will make that article look even more pointless.
Iowa won't beat tOSU if Urban finally pulls his head out of his *** and ends the Cardale Jones experiment. They'll keep it a hell of a lot closer than Wiscy did last season, but they'll still lose by 10ish if they play tOSU. I think Iowa would beat MSU or Michigan, but doubt either makes it to the CCG.
Bottom line, if Iowa goes 13-0, they're in the playoffs because they'll get their signature win in the CCG. The odds of four other P5 conferences having undefeated champions are slim - pretty good chance 13-0 automatically puts Iowa in the playoff. Iowa controls it's own destiny, no reason to ***** about it.
That being said, they'll undoubtedly drop one they shouldn't like they do every year - my money is on an 11-1 finish with a loss @ Indiana. Which will make that article look even more pointless.
Iowa won't beat tOSU if Urban finally pulls his head out of his *** and ends the Cardale Jones experiment. They'll keep it a hell of a lot closer than Wiscy did last season, but they'll still lose by 10ish if they play tOSU. I think Iowa would beat MSU or Michigan, but doubt either makes it to the CCG.
Neither has Oklahoma or Oklahoma State, but you know we'd be pleased if we beat them.
Beginning of the year:
"FIRE Kirk. Program is dead. Sick of boring bowl games, boring offense. Gameday atmosphere sucks. Even if we win a lot of games our schedule is lousy."
Now:
"Kirk will get coach of the year! We're a contender. We deserve to be in the playoff. We beat 2 ranked teams! (even if neither is ranked at the end of the year)."
"FIRE Kirk. Program is dead. Sick of boring bowl games, boring offense. Gameday atmosphere sucks. Even if we win a lot of games our schedule is lousy."
Now:
"Kirk will get coach of the year! We're a contender. We deserve to be in the playoff. We beat 2 ranked teams! (even if neither is ranked at the end of the year)."
