Except I didn’t say that and you’ve, once again, ignored a question. How can you call Minnesota "fake ID" when they were highly ranked in the AP? That’s your criteria. How do you justify that?
The B1G was top heavy. So was the Big 12. Even more so
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Except I didn’t say that and you’ve, once again, ignored a question. How can you call Minnesota "fake ID" when they were highly ranked in the AP? That’s your criteria. How do you justify that?
The B1G was top heavy. So was the Big 12. Even more so
You should read it.... you might actually learn something about ISU football, and how you're totally wrong about all your trash talking towards Iowa fans.
I cannot stand Iowa fans, or Iowa football, or anything Iowa for that matter.... but then let's beat them some day.... or win more games than they do.... go to a better bowl game than they do.... have a better recruiting class than they do.... put more guys in the NFL, etc, etc, etc.
Your act gets really old. You have nothing to stand on except this BS about SOS. That's just dumb. We wouldn't win anymore games being in the B1G.... it's just a lazy excuse. We need to grow up and win games and lose the excuses.
The Big 12 was very balanced. Tech, TCU and West Virginia were all better than one of your bowl eligible teams lol. That's just crazy
Iowa played more teams ranked in the final AP poll. How can you possibly say that’s true? The AP poll is the only metric? How can a team be a "fake ID" but be ranked in the top ten?
How can Minnesota be a "fake ID" team when they were ranked tenth? Is the AP poll valid or not? Simple question really
Yet Iowa State played a much more difficult schedule. Thanks for proving my point
Is the AP poll valid or not? How can Minnesota be ranked tenth but be fake in your opinion?
Yes Minnesota was the 10th best team in CFB last year. They're a fake ID and it won't be sustainable. They caught every break possible and played a joke of schedule but they won and that's all that really matters. I don't think Iowa fans look back at 2015 and think about the national disrespect they were getting all year and instead look back at the 12-2 season
Yawn. "ISU would win 10 games every year playing in the B1G..... blah.... blah.... blah".
Yeah, because the B1G is like playing in the MAC, am I right? What a dumb argument.
We can't even beat Iowa head to head every year.... but if we only played in the B1G.... we'd be so awesome because everyone knows the B1G is just horrible football. Whatever.
And quit comparing our recruiting this year with Iowa too. They are smoking us bad. Now... we won't truly know how good the class is until 4 or 5 years from now, but right now... they're destroying us in recruiting too.
We need to grow up and grow a pair.
Lol an Iowa fan even said we win 9 games last year if we were in the Big Ten West but OK
You’re first two sentences are incompatible with each other. Calling a team top ten and then saying they’re fake doesn’t make sense. The fact that they may or may not be able to sustain the success is irrelevant to their record and success last year.
and what CyTwins uses to determine isu played a much harder schedule also says isu would go 7-6 with Iowa’s schedule and Iowa would go 10-3 with isu’s schedule.
Wonder why he ignores that?
Iowa carried a fake ID in 2015. Doesn't change the fact they were a top 10 team
So you’re perfectly willing to admit that the AP does not always get team rankings correct? After all, they are admittedly fake at times.
I use the AP as my main source. You guys sure defend your "rival" Minnesota at so costs don't you?
It might have been a long rant, but it was a spot on rant.
If I'm being honest, ISU fans have lots to be happy about with CMC and the football program. He has for sure brought in better players and can compete now with every team on the schedule. That is a huge improvement, and I think that leads to ISU being a bowl team nearly every year now. That is a great step up for ISU and I do understand why ISU fans are excited about CMC and it's football program.
I do like where Iowa sits as well though. KF has really managed to up his game the last 5 years. 3 top 25 finishes, 3 years with 9+ wins, and the other two years were still 8 win years. They really have to get over the Wisconsin hump though. If Iowa could have beaten Wisconsin 3 time over the last 5 years, that would have been 3 Big10 title game appearances instead of just 1. I know Wisconsin is great, and has been great, but we just gotta find a way to get it done against them, they really have our number.
Wouldn’t Sagarin be a much better ranking, since their schedule ranking is so much better after all? I mean, let’s say, hypothetically, if a team played the 5th hardest schedule compared to another team that played the 19th hardest schedule and were ranked 7 spots higher in the final rankings, wouldn’t they be more correctly judged the better team? Again, hypothetically. After all, sometimes the AP rankings are fake. You said so yourself.
Wouldn’t the Sagarin ratings be a better judge of relative team strength, since you admit they’re pretty much infallible, at least to schedule strength.