It's used to get under the other teams skin and while annoying to everyone else, it works. As you said, it's important to both sides.
Iowa -7 vs ISU
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It's used to get under the other teams skin and while annoying to everyone else, it works. As you said, it's important to both sides.
I don't know about fans but this game definitely is a bigger deal to the Iowa football program. Their is a reason why it's widely considered their Super Bowl
For years this game was considered for the most part a lose-lose opportunity for Iowa. ISU had been notoriously bad and Iowa was supposed to win, so when they lost, it was more than just a loss.
I thought during the 12 team Big 12 years, if we had the OSU, Baylor, and A&M rotation, winning the Iowa game wasn't as important as it was during the Texas, OU, and Tech years.
Now, that doesn't matter because of the round robin. The roles are reversed now with conference schedules, and I'm not sure if Iowa fans feel the same way or not but they could.
For the most part the last couple decades, its hard to predict. Iowa most years has had the edge but its still kind of a coin flip game.
I do think Iowa fans have been more vocal about the game. Some of that comes with having some respect/fear/concerns/whatever with playing a team that you once used to beat a lot and now that's not exactly happening.
Whatever Troll McTrolly. Just hop back on the troll express back to Trollville.
Haven't you admitted in the past that the ISU game is the biggest one of the year for Iowa?
Seriously I just reposted that same statement. I said that Twins was trolling because he said the game is more important for Iowa players than ISU players. Could that be true, perhaps for some, but there’s no way you can make that blanket statement. Based on his comments, the game seemed awfully important to AL.
I think my feelings are exactly like most Iowa fans. Kind of dread the game. It’s not like any of the other rivals. With them, you play hard and win or lose. I know a bunch of ISU fans. If Iowa loses I hear about it for a year. My feeling is nothing like Twins, who seems to believe it is everything to Iowa and another game to ISU.
Because on your post from 4 years ago you said ISU is Iowas biggest rival. That with the talk about how much pain your fanbase is in if your team loses sure sounds a lot like Superbowl to me.
Super Bowl is the biggest game of the year. The won that has the biggest bearing on a successful season. My post from years ago is consistent with this. The loss to ISU hurt bad. Listening to ISU fans wasn’t fun. Every game in the conference was more important. Every one. ISU is probably the rival, although it might be different for northern Iowa area Hawk fans, but the big ten games are the playoffs and Super Bowl. ISU is the preseason.
Again, this is my opinion. Another fan may believe the season begins and ends in September against the Clones. That’s fine, whatever for them.
In more recent history, Ohio State was a bigger game than ISU. So was Penn State and Wisconsin for that matter.
There's a ton of evidence out there that Iowa coaches and players emphasize the ISU game more than any other game on the schedule. I don't think you want to go down that path as an Iowa fan but there are reasons I made a "blanket statement" about it troll
My last comment unless you can bring something new. If you truly think that a non-conference game means more to the majority of the players and coaches at ISU or Iowa than a conference game you’re delusional.
They’ve said over and over, at least iowa has, that conference games bring a whole new intensity and focus. I will grant outliers who may believe differently. For instance, I believe you just graduated a wide received who put a pretty big focus on that game.
Thank God its your last comment.
If intensity and focus mean that much to Iowa, then those conference games wouldn't have trouble selling out on a regular basis.
And the WR made numerous comments about Iowa because of Kirk and his recruiting methods.
It was my last comment to Twins. Attendance is down across college football. ISU is going to sell out because both schools are close. Same reason UNI will sell out this year. Like I said, his Super Bowl. See how easy this is?
There are multiple examples of Iowa treating this game like the biggest game on the schedule so I don't think I'm the delusional one. I will agree with you though that CMC treats conference games with a whole new intensity and focus but coaches like KF and McCarney live and breathe the rivalry and make that the biggest game
Um, Jack Trice Stadium sure didn't shrink. OU is expanding, aTm is expanding, Mizzou is expanding, I think TCU is going to again.
Just because quite a few, even the majority of schools arent, does not mean its across the board.
Interesting. NCAA attendance numbers said Oklahoma, TCU, and Missouri all had a decrease in attendance last year. To be fair, Iowa had a huge decrease but the home schedule was not good. I’m sure this year will be better. Iowa State was up quite a bit. Iowa factor?
Yes, Campbell does treat conference games with a different intensity and focus- a much lesser one. KF isn’t the one who said he would rather beat his rivals than win a conference championship.