I'm here to talk about this year. I could care less about last year or what other people said on here in regards to Sagarin or whatever. THIS YEAR the Big 10 West is trash. You have Northwestern at the top, and then Wisconsin and Iowa who haven't beaten a team with a heartbeat yet.
No the Big 12 is not great. They're decent though. The Big 10 West is BAD though. You can't argue that it's even average.
I don't know. The BIG ten west has 3 decent teams then cannon fodder. The BIG 12 has 4 decent teams then then cannon fodder. looks pretty similar to me. Purdue/Minnesota would be fairly comparable to TCU/W Virginia. Nebraska/Illinois fairly similar to TT/Baylor/Kansas
Wisconsin and Northwestern are as good as anybody in the BIG 12. Iowa would probably go 2-2 against the top 4 in the BIG 12.
W. Virginia and a healthy K-State are better than Purdue and Minnesota. And the only reason Minnesota beat Purdue is because of a horrific PI call. TCU is probably on the level of Minnesota. TT and Baylor are around Nebraska and Illinois level and Kansas is just awful.
Iowa hasn't beaten a ranked team this year and will likely go 0-3 against the top-4 of the Big 10 West. What makes you think they'd go 2-2 against OU, ISU, OSU, or Texas? Iowa hasn't done anything special this year outside of beating bad football teams.
And we'd lost 11 of the last 12 against Kansas State and beat them 45-0. Iowa had lost the last 5 to Penn State I believe and handled them.
Don't even know what a healthy KSU would look like at this point. I think Purdue vs West Virginia would be a good game to be honest. Their QB is decent and their receivers are awesome.
This is a good/decent Iowa team with piss poor QB play keeping them from being very good/great.
Remarkably similar to how the best team in the Big 10 West has done over the last few years. Good coaches evaluate players better than website scouts and certainly develop them better.
Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas are way better than Iowa. Iowa couldn't beat Purdue without Moore
