This is not accurate. Sagarin had Iowa State winning 1 more game with Iowa's schedule than with their own
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Someone find the stat posted about Iowa playing B10 East teams - they only won like 38% of those games since 2010. Could you imagine how different their narrative would be if they were actually forced to play the good teams in the conference every year?
I think you're thinking of just games against MSU, PSU, Michigan and OSU. 38% win percentage against those schools (8-13, 4 wins coming against Michigan!)
Overall though, they're 17-15 (53%) in the Big 10 when adding in Maryland, Indiana and Rutgers.
Since 2010
MSU: 2-4
PSU: 1-5
OSU: 1-2
MI: 4-2
MD: 2-1
IU: 5-1
RU: 2-0
According to Sagarin ISU loses to Penn St., Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and USC. 6 losses.
According to Sagarin Iowa State loses 7 games with their schedule
So hold on you are saying actual results don't mean anything, that Sagarin predictions should be used over actual results?
Why don't you just jump to your end game and call me a racist again because I won't answer your questions?
What are you talking about? According to Sagarin Iowa State goes 6-7 with their own schedule and 7-6 with Iowa's schedule. Iowa State's schedule was at least one game harder. Obviously games aren't chalk lol
The fact you say racism is running rampant in college football when in reality it was just an Iowa issue is unacceptable IMO. You can admit you were wrong and say it was just an Iowa thing in CFB and be over with it
Got it, ISU went 7-6 and would go 7-6 playing Iowa's schedule.
Well technically you would expect Iowa State to go 8-5 with Iowa's schedule since they went +1 on their projections
At least we can agree that Iowa wins 11 games vs ISU's schedule. For some reason I thought it was 10 wins, but looks like only ND and OU could beat Iowa on ISU schedule. It does suck for Iowa that they would have lost twice to OU (once in the Big12 championship game), but an 11-3 season and playing in the Big12 championship game is a pretty decent year.
Ok, I thought it was 10 wins vs ISU schedule, but when I looked at it a little bit ago I was thinking the rating calculated out home field advantage. ISU still would only go 7-6 vs Iowa's schedule though. Good thing you got that SOS to brag about, seems it really would make a difference.
Are you so stubborn that you won't admit you were wrong on this subject? Especially with the severity of the topic?
This thread is hilarious. Iowa made a living playing in the historically poor Big 10 West and the old Big 10, before adding Nebraska or going to divisions had a lot of tough years too. Iowa won the league a couple of times, but when they did, guess what, they avoided the "co champion" and didn't have to play a championship game. And now the Big 12 is having a down year, and here they are. Look in the mirror Iowa fans. Playing in a poor league, Iowa has been there, done that, got the T-shirt and the hat.