I disagree, we lost to Iowa and Texas a few years ago but after beating Oklahoma and TCU some could show an outside possibility of ISU reaching the playoff if we had won out.
If we go on a 10 game win streak, right now, we’d have a good shot at making the playoffs.
If your point is that any team capable of going on a ten game win streak in the big 12 should be able to throttle Iowa, then I’d probably agree with you there.