Well if you listen to the national media talking about Alabama. "They are not the same team that Texas beat in week 2. They are much better now and it's probable that Alabama would beat Texas now." < literally CBS, Yahoo, ESPN, Fox, 247 Sports, everyone is saying that.
What makes you think that Iowa State will move the ball on Iowa? Unless you have elite talent, not many teams move it very well on them.
I agree. I think both teams are about equal. Which is why I think if the schedules were reversed, ISU would be 9-10 wins and Iowa would be 7-8 wins. I think most of us can agree on that
It would undoubtedly be a close cometitive game with a ton of punts but you dont see anyway isu wouldn't beat Iowa serioulsy?
Yeahhhh I mean that's still not how it works lol. That's why there needs to be a playoff. That game was played and Texas won. As much as I hate standing up for Texas, they did their job there.
Do ISU fans not think it was advantageous to play OSU at a time when they had a team mutiny going on?
We actually got OSU when they started settling that. If you remember, they played 3 quarterbacks every game until the ISU game. When they listened to the team and started their current starting qb and never turned back.
Oh I know. I agree they did their job beating Alabama in their own house. I don't like seeing TexA$$ get screwed like this, even though I hate them.
The lead up that whole week was how many OK St. players were going to quit. Like you said, they had just started to settle some of that. We will never know what would have happened if everything was already settled and they played two weeks later.
Two weeks later they would've came on Jack Trice night and you don't win on Jack Trice night.
The ISU game ended being the third least competitive P5 game Iowa played. PSU, Rutgers then ISU. It was over at halftime.
You mean the game where ISU had the ball down one score in the 4th quarter? That's your definition of "over at halftime"?
This sounds like how Iowa won most of their games this season, hmmmmm
Favorable draws won’t exist anymore in the Big Ten. They’re pretty much guaranteed to get at least two of those teams every year.
Ehh, I wouldn't say that. Iowa has a bit of an unfair advantage compared to all the other BIG10 teams. They have Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota as guaranteed games. Some seasons you could get Michigan, UCLA, Indiana, Rutgers, MSU. I'd call that a favorable draw
Yeah, I do have to remember who we're talking to here. B1G west fans have no clue what the modern era of football is like. Like talking to a caveman about avionics. It's incomprehensible to them in many ways. I'm sure a 7 point win does feel like a monumental blowout.
