Based on your football team, I know you need the distraction,so keep on typing away.
Dear America - Iowa Doesn't Care What You Think
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Based on your football team, I know you need the distraction,so keep on typing away.
I think people are making too big of a deal about rankings considering there is so much football left to be played. For me, I'm just enjoying the ride for as long as it lasts. I don't think they'll go undefeated so I don't really care about arguing schedule strength.
This is the right attitude.
You'll have plenty of time to tell ISU fans how bad their football team is, even though 99% know it already. And nationally Iowa is getting plenty of respect, just don't expect everyone to bow down to the greatness of a team who's best win is beating #23 at home.
And if we beat the # 2 or # 3 rated team, you'd be saying they're overrated to begin with-I know the drill here.
And again, the great thing with Pitt is they still have Duke and Notre Dame on their schedule, so they have some tests to further evaluate them.
breck, you can't play your cards before they're dealt. Rookie move. Stick to those Sagarin rankings, and run with it. Iowa's going to get a trophy for their Week 8 Sagarin SOS ranking. That's a good season.
ISU would currently be 4-3 with Iowa's schedule and would finish either 6-6 or 7-5.
Iowa would currently be 4-3 as well with losses to Baylor and TCU a lock and a loss to either Toledo or Texas Tech. They would finish the season with at least 2 more losses, Oklahoma most likely and at least one other (Okie St, at KState, at WVU is at least 1 loss). They finish at best 7-5, and possibly 6-6 as well.
Iowa fans, instead of ******** and moaning about no respect, realize that respect is earned and deal with it. Is Iowa a better team than ISU, yes. But not head and shoulders better.
Iowa would currently be 4-3 as well with losses to Baylor and TCU a lock and a loss to either Toledo or Texas Tech. They would finish the season with at least 2 more losses, Oklahoma most likely and at least one other (Okie St, at KState, at WVU is at least 1 loss). They finish at best 7-5, and possibly 6-6 as well.
Iowa fans, instead of ******** and moaning about no respect, realize that respect is earned and deal with it. Is Iowa a better team than ISU, yes. But not head and shoulders better.
Iowa's schedule by Sagarin ranking of opponent:
Home:
33
61
67
73
77
102
180
Away:
19
40
46
72
80
Iowa State is #72. So I'll remove it from the list for ISU and count it as an L since they already lost to Iowa.
From the remaining 11 games, ISU would go either 1-3 or 0-4 with that road stretch and 4-3 or 5-2 at home. There would be a chance at going 6-1 at home as #61 @ #72 would be a close game. (#61 is Illinois)
So I guess if things went ISU's way they could go 6-6 with Iowa's schedule according to Sagarin or even 7-5 if they caught a break. It is striking to me that 8 of the teams on Iowa's schedule are of comparable quality to ISU or worse according to Sagarin though. Because we (or I, at least) acknowledge that ISU is a bad football team this year.
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What carrier do you have that only let you watch the last two minutes??
I would have called and complained, that's unacceptable.
The Mangenius fiasco is already being discussed in this thread, and there are random comments about it in other football threads:
http://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=209429
So if you're going to use sagarin rating to determine outcomes, can we go ahead and assume Iowa should have beaten isu by much more? Since. You know, they crushed #40 by thirty on the road, and #67 at home.
I guess this illustrates quite well that Iowa is indeed head and shoulders above isu this year.
Would have hosted Pitt, which is a chance. They beat Illinois and with the current state of NW football (they barely beat Duke and Ball State, programs that would be comparable to ISU), I see no reason they can't win that game. So 2 out of those 3 games isn't far fetched.
Lol. You brought Sagarin to this thread yourself. This thread is about Iowa's s***ty schedule. Iowa plays just one team ranked better than 33. That should pretty much end the discussion.
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I'm going to assume you meant they beat both Duke (#22) and Stanford (#8). Someone must have slipped something in that delicious Ames water.