So are you saying that when we beat you on Saturday, that doesn't prove that we are better than you? I think you will see the difference between the 2 teams. ISU is far superior this season.
***OFFICIAL IOWA/ISU WEEK THREAD***
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Did Iowa prove that they were better than ISU in bball by taking them to the woodshed and beating them by double digits?
No, just like Iowa kicking ISU ass in basketball didn't prove they were better. Just like Iowa beating Michigan didn't make them better than Michigan last year. If I could trade the Michigan win for their 10-3 record I would in a heartbeat.
Oh C'mon dude! It is telling when you have to switch sports
Let's break this down
2014- iSu won finished 2-1 and iowa 7-6- iowa had 0 wins over teams with winning records ZERO
2012- iSu won and finished 6-7 and iowa finished 4-8
2011- iSU won finished 6-7 and iowa finished 7-6. Double OT and iSu had two redzone TOs one being a fumbled snap
2007- iSu won finished 3-9 and iowa finished 6-6 with 2 wins over winning teams
2005- iSu won finished a disappointing 7-5 iowa finished 7-5 with 2 wins against winning teams
2002- Has been discussed adnauseum
2001- iSu wins both teams finished 7-5 game was played in November
2002- I mean c'mon don't even try
1999- iSu wins finishes 4-7 iowa finishes 1-10.
So you are talking about 2014, 2007 and 2002.
2014- iowa beat no one with a winning record best win was 30-14 over a 6-7 Illinois team The big ten was very bad and iowa had an easy schedule.
2007- That is the one year you have and argument but geez...iowa lost to 5-7 Western Michigan and barely beat bad NIU and Minny teams
2002- This one can be debated time and time again. iSu was very hot at the begining of the season.
Even those three games...it didn't take some Superbowl type effort to beat mediocre to bad iowa teams
What year that iSu won was iowa better. Let's start there and I don't want...iowa was better because iahawks says iowa was better. Give something tangible to back up your crap.
Reality is when two teams are close and they play one another...the best way to decide is head to head.
Your basketball correlation fails because iSu and iowa were nowhere close and iSu simply played bad. Now if you can prove that iowa played worse than what they normally played or iSu played better than what they normally played...you would have a case
For example
2014- NOPE-iowa's offense was 1 yard per play lower than their average, average on total defense, better than their average on scoring defense, better than their average on turnover margin- Pretty much average or better than average in every category
Even @CyTwins admits Iowa was the better team in '14, '07 and '02 and he is the biggest Iowa troll on the planet (until you I guess).
1 of the 3 B1G bloggers pick ISU to win.
http://www.espn.com/blog/bigten/pos...-state-to-win-heavyweight-battle-over-sooners
LOL at this comment from Mitch Sherman:
"This series often defies logic. And sometimes it defines seasons, such as in 2012, when Iowa State last played in a bowl game. The Cyclones won that CyHawk thriller 9-6 en route to a magical 6-7 finish, while the Hawkeyes dipped to 4-8."
http://www.espn.com/blog/bigten/pos...-state-to-win-heavyweight-battle-over-sooners
LOL at this comment from Mitch Sherman:
"This series often defies logic. And sometimes it defines seasons, such as in 2012, when Iowa State last played in a bowl game. The Cyclones won that CyHawk thriller 9-6 en route to a magical 6-7 finish, while the Hawkeyes dipped to 4-8."
This has been broken down before, but I guess we will do it one more time for you.
1999-ISU better team
2000 - ISU better team
2001-Even
2002-Even at the time they played when ISU was still healthy and Iowa didn't know how good they could be.
2005-ISU better team
2007-Both bad teams, but I feel Iowa was slightly better
2011-Even
2012-ISU better team
2014-Iowa was slightly better
So I would put it at ISU was the better team in 4 of those wins, even in three and Iowa was better in two. And I even gave you that ISU was equal team at the time they played in 2002. That is being more than generous there. Basically it shows that ISU has won just about every single game where both teams were pretty comparable by very slim margins.
I stand by my statement, that if you were to replay the same 18 games again, I feel that ISU could not have done any better than 9 wins. More than likely they would get 6 or 7 wins.
So you say. Tell me, which of us is haunting the message board of the other fanbase???
I enjoy all the Hawk talk that the Cyclone fan base provides on this site. Thanks!
Mmmmm...the majority of which appears to be coming from Hawk fans.
I'm so sorry you don't have a well-run, high-traffic website of your own to populate. You should really find someone smart enough to run one of those, like our own Chris Williams. Of course, then you'd need a set of dedicated mods who are even-handed in their approach to posting styles. I guess Hawkeyes who are intelligent, web-savvy, and even-handed are too hard to find.
Well, no matter. We'll put up with you poor homeless souls.
Yes, ISR threads getting bumped by Hawk fans at 5:30 in the morning sees to that
If the Hawkeye discussions would end, I wouldn't post here. You don't see me in Cyclone threads, or off topic threads, I only post here in the Hawkeye obsession threads. I must admit I am obsessed with the Hawks and that is why I am here!