Iowa Football Recruiting

Interesting question so I looked a few things up. In the 10 seasons prior to the B1G moving to divisional play, Iowa played Penn St. 8 times, Michigan 8 times, Michigan St. 8 times, and OSU 6 times. There were four seasons where Iowa played all 4 of them, and in those seasons went 10-3, 10-2, 11-2, and 8-5. During that entire span, Iowa averaged 8-9 wins per season. Who knows how they'd do today, but they seemed to do ok against the best teams in the East back then.

Thank you for this piece of information about a bunch of years ago. Dually noted.
 
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Interesting question so I looked a few things up. In the 10 seasons prior to the B1G moving to divisional play, Iowa played Penn St. 8 times, Michigan 8 times, Michigan St. 8 times, and OSU 6 times. There were four seasons where Iowa played all 4 of them, and in those seasons went 10-3, 10-2, 11-2, and 8-5. During that entire span, Iowa averaged 8-9 wins per season. Who knows how they'd do today, but they seemed to do ok against the best teams in the East back then.
It's truly incredible how much Iowa has sidestepped tOSU even in those days.
 
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Maybe I'm not following, but the hoks played Ped St, MI, MSU and OSU 16 times in four years?

In the 10 seasons before the B1G went to divisions, Iowa played all four - PSU, OSU, Michigan, and MSU - in four of those 10 seasons.

4 (PSU, OSU, MSU, Michigan) x 4 (2010, 2009, 2004, 2003) = 16 total games against those four programs.

In those 16 games Iowa went 11-5.
 
Well if Padilla and Hogan can’t surpass Petras, what does it say about them?

FWIW, I have it on good authority that Petras is legitimately good in practice. The staff and players alike were really surprised when he sucked last year. Some guys just don’t have it when the bullets start flying, and unfortunately it looks like Petras may be one of those guys.
 

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