Iowa Football Recruiting
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He won't acknowledge the fact that the top Big12 teams only play 2 ranked conference opponents a year anyway. If ISU was ever one of them, it is what happens, the schedule looks easier as you beat other teams.
Are you saying the top teams in the Big 12 only have to play 25 opponents the entire season every year because Oklahoma State did it once? I mean Oklahoma played 3 just last year
I don't remember 2003 or 2004 before easy schedules for Iowa just 2002 for sure. They were good back then and I've said multiple times Ferentz used to be a very good coach
And one of those was a Big 10 team OOC. Kudos to them for scheduling that.
OU only played 2 top 25 conference teams, OSU and WVU.
Your whole point this entire time was Iowa face 2 ranked conference opponents.
You said CMC wouldn't play only 2 ranked conference teams in year 4. Fact is there is a 80% chance this is exactly what would happen if CMC could finish in the top 10 in year 4 like Ferentz did.
I said Iowa played 2 ranked teams the entire season, not just conference opponents. Reading is hard I know
Too bad ISU couldn't hold up that year. Would have been three.
Link to Oklahoma playing 3 Big 12 opponents that finished in the Top 25?
So you are counting on Iowa being top 25 then ro push that up to 3 ranked teams?
Except that was year 4 with a really nice Oline for Iowa. I recall that year well because ISU peaked, then played an OU team that played like they had 25 guys on the field and it was all down hill from there, while Iowa got on a roll.
MSU sucked that year, but Iowa's run was fun to watch from an outside perspective. Any good QB they faced though tore them up and it was up to the opponent simply finishing the job. I remember a friend talking about how Carson Palmer and Co. hadn't seen what Iowa brought to the table, and I could only laugh because they clearly didn't know what USC was like...they found out.
Having that kind of season requires talent and plenty of luck for anyone, and ISU having both at the same time would be quite a feat within itself. If ISU goes even 6-6 this season there's hope the CMC could have a really, really nice season at some point but even with talent there's always this weird mental ceiling that doesn't allow for new steps. I used to call it McCarney ball but it's mainly an Iowa State thing.
2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016 the ranked Big12 teams only played 2 other ranked Big12 opponents. In 2015, they played 3 ranked Big12 opponents.
In 2015 Iowa played 3 ranked BigTen opponents.
Iowa has one top 25 finish in the last 7 years so yes the one year they finished in the top 25 they are counted towards it
So you admit that odds are Much, much greater that a 11 win CMC team would face 2 ranked opponents. That is great, I knew that from the beginning, it is nice that you finally admitted it.
To be fair, this was caused by teams not even trying to run the ball on Iowa in 2002. They were a great run defense and a bad pass defense because teams stopped trying to run on them.
Edit- And that to the fact that the Iowa offense pretty much scored right away on the first possession that season and the opponent was quickly in the hole, forcing them to play catch up right away.
I never said that. It would be much easier to win 11 games if he had to only play 2 ranked teams though. That is what is being discussed and you are having a hard time following along