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2025 BIG schedule

8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU L
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana L

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin W
10/18: Penn State L
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State W
11/28: at Nebraska L

middle of that schedule is brutal
 
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Next year is a tough schedule for Iowa, but nobody plays the Hawks immediately following a bye week except for Oregon, and Iowa has a bye the week prior as well.
 
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QChawks said:
8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU L
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana L

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin W
10/18: Penn State L
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State W
11/28: at Nebraska L

middle of that schedule is brutal
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Debbie will lose for the tenth time in eleven years. ISU may fall off after a record year like our 2016. Maybe Indiana also.
 
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I can easily see 5-0 going into Madison. The home team in the cyhawk series can't win lately for whatever reason.
 
QChawks said:
8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU L
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana L

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin W
10/18: Penn State L
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State W
11/28: at Nebraska L

middle of that schedule is brutal
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I think there's more W's out there.

8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU W
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana W

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin L
10/18: Penn State W
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State W
11/28: at Nebraska W
 
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8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU L
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana ?

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin W
10/18: Penn State L
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State L
11/28: at Nebraska L

As it stands now, this is how I see it:
  • Iowa State will give us a drubbing, 33-10 loss.
  • Indiana is a ? because I don't see them repeating what they did this year, but I don't know how many players they'll lose going into next year. At least it's at home.
  • Penn State will embarrass us again, they'll drop 40.
  • Oregon will kill us, another easy 40 burger.
  • USC will be an ugly game, but they'll pull away late.
  • I have zero confidence we can stop Michigan State, so that will be a loss.
  • Little debbie will be improved, and after the handshake/prayer controversy, they'll be out for blood. The first strong win against us since joining the B1G, 31-14
  • It will be the first time in years Kirk won't win a single game in November.
Hawks will have to pull out at least 1 unexpected win to be bowl eligible. It's going to be a very rough year, boys.
 
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RossWB said:
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8/30: Albany
9/6: at ISU
9/13: UMass
9/20: at Rutgers
9/27: Indiana

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin
10/18: Penn State
10/25: Minnesota

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon
11/15: at USC
11/22: Michigan State
11/28: at Nebraska
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After the announcing of the CFP, there's talk about future schedules needing more conference head-to-head games. Networks can't make as much on TV ads in games vs Albany, UMASS, etc. in the P2 leagues. They want more markee matchups. Might be seeing the forced end of the annual ISU game b/c of conference mandates.
 
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After the announcing of the CFP, there's talk about future schedules needing more conference head-to-head games. Networks can't make as much on TV ads in games vs Albany, UMASS, etc. in the P2 leagues. They want more markee matchups. Might be seeing the forced end of the annual ISU game b/c of conference mandates.
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I would love to see 10 conference games and if ISU has to go then that is fine with me. But maybe we keep ISU and only have one so called cupcake

But with 10 conference games, 5 at home and Iowa always wants at least 7 home games the ISU game would go away
 
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squeezebox said:
You're probably right, MSU is replacing a huge chunk of their defense, but that offense was young. Only worried about USC due to travel, and Debbie is replacing most of their team. Oregon will probably be a 40 point drubbing.
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Like their game against Wisc? Oh wait, they almost lost. 😀
 
2D_ said:
8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU L
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana ?

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin W
10/18: Penn State L
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State L
11/28: at Nebraska L

As it stands now, this is how I see it:
  • Iowa State will give us a drubbing, 33-10 loss.
  • Indiana is a ? because I don't see them repeating what they did this year, but I don't know how many players they'll lose going into next year. At least it's at home.
  • Penn State will embarrass us again, they'll drop 40.
  • Oregon will kill us, another easy 40 burger.
  • USC will be an ugly game, but they'll pull away late.
  • I have zero confidence we can stop Michigan State, so that will be a loss.
  • Little debbie will be improved, and after the handshake/prayer controversy, they'll be out for blood. The first strong win against us since joining the B1G, 31-14
  • It will be the first time in years Kirk won't win a single game in November.
Hawks will have to pull out at least 1 unexpected win to be bowl eligible. It's going to be a very rough year, boys.
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You’re hilarious.

ISU hasn’t beaten us at Jack Trice since 2011. Indiana loses damn near their whole team. When’s the last time PSU drubbed us at Kinnick? Oregon damn near lost at Wisc, who we drubbed. Nebraska hasn’t beaten us in Lincoln in forever.

But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of a good emotional rant!
 
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You’re hilarious.

ISU hasn’t beaten us at Jack Trice since 2011. Indiana loses damn near their whole team. When’s the last time PSU drubbed us at Kinnick? Oregon damn near lost at Wisc, who we drubbed. Nebraska hasn’t beaten us in Lincoln in forever.

But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of a good emotional rant!
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Keep those tears flowing!
 
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Birky said:
I have a stone cold lock, for you guys.

None of these predictions will be correct.
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This season isn't even over yet, but next season is in the books.

Might as well skip the board until this time next year, the geniuses have spoken.
 
uihawk82 said:
Yeah, if you take out the 0-6 start by Kirk and his recent maybe 0-5 run since the OSU beatdown in 2017 then in the middle of that he was 12-13 and that includes the great run from 2002 to 2009 when they beat PSU multiple times, Illini, some SEC teams, OSU and Wisky in 2004 and Mich several times.

KF's 12-13 mark against top and highly rated teams is what got the fans to recently be grumbling about the last 5-6 beatdowns by top teams. Sort of you did it before so why not now
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It would be interesting to go look at the game stats.

Mainly the offensive numbers. When Iowa did have a run of being competitive and even beating these teams, i don’t recall the gameplan being “punting is winning”

Now i don’t think most of the games were 500 yards of offense….

But i feel the major reason Iowa has been complete shit against ranked opponents now is zero offense. And with the defense scheme of bending but don’t break, it only works if the offense can at least do something to not also break the defense
 
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bagdropper said:
This season isn't even over yet, but next season is in the books.

Might as well skip the board until this time next year, the geniuses have spoken.
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Uh oh, the crybabies about predictions are out!
 
Zooropa_NCR said:
It would be interesting to go look at the game stats.

Mainly the offensive numbers. When Iowa did have a run of being competitive and even beating these teams, i don’t recall the gameplan being “punting is winning”

Now i don’t think most of the games were 500 yards of offense….

But i feel the major reason Iowa has been complete shit against ranked opponents now is zero offense. And with the defense scheme of bending but don’t break, it only works if the offense can at least do something to not also break the defense
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You are right of course. A defense cant stop every drive. The bend but dont break/Dont allow big plays type of defense is based on at least 1/3 of every pass being an incompletion, holding a team to less than 3 yards per rush, a sack here, and tackle for loss there.

Take the 2015 Big Ten championship game and the loss to Iowa State at home in 2022. Iowa's defense didnt allow much long drives against MSU but when the got into 4 down mode at the end of the game it is hard to keep a team from getting first downs. MSU needed a TD and four down mode is hard to stop.

The same thing happened late in that 2022 ISU game at Kinnick. The hawks had a 7-3 lead I think and the hawks fumbled and lost the ball right at the ISU goaline. It was late in the game, if they hadnt got one or two first downs early in that drive they may have punted but once they got a couple first downs they were all in on 4 down mode because they only had minutes of clock time to get a TD.

Now with Iowa's usually really good Defense if you add more scoring in either of those two games then the game is out of reach 99% of the time for those two teams.

This year the hawks averages about 28 points a game, way more than the last 2 years, and they only needed 2 pts to beat ISU and 4 pts to beat UCLA so a 10-2 season was there for the picking with like you said having a better offense. Kirk had he defense in '21-'23 to play with the biggest of the boys if he had a average to above average offense.
 
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Uh oh, the crybabies about predictions are out!
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There is nothing wrong with predictions. It’s acting like your prediction is a certainty that is off putting.

Looking at the schedule, I think Iowa will probably go about 7-5, but I can admit that in about 8 of those games, you could tell the halftime score, and I’ll still miss some of them. I don’t know if anything WILL happen.

You have a propensity to speak in absolutes about things you will more than likely will be wrong about. You also like to take poor results from 2024, and translate them to next season as if it guarantees poor results in 2025. Then in the next breath use success in 2024 as motivation for the opponent that guarantees poor results in 2025.

For example, Nebraska is motivated to rape Iowa in 2025, because of what happened in 2024. However, Iowa will not be motivated by their poor performance against MSU in 2024, and will get rolled again. You somehow do this multiple times in the span of just 10 games.

So, what I’m saying is, you keep whining about crybabies, but are indeed a bitch.

Shut, the fvck, up.
 
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Why do you guys get so bent over things? Next season will be difficult but who the hell knows with recruits lost or gained through the high school ranks and portal.

It will be a crap shoot until fall ball starts with a roster with a lot of unknowns. Not just for Iowa, most teams not named blue blood U with deep pockets to sponsor their NIL/portal needs and kids already on the roster.

I see a lot of difficult games home and away and wanna see how KF looks at it and hope he says, we gotta have an offense that can win games like he used to field in the front half of his time at Iowa. He has got to let Lester make the moves he needs to field an offense to try and compete in this new era of college football.
 
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Birky said:
There is nothing wrong with predictions. It’s acting like your prediction is a certainty that is off putting.

Looking at the schedule, I think Iowa will probably go about 7-5, but I can admit that in about 8 of those games, you could tell the halftime score, and I’ll still miss some of them. I don’t know if anything WILL happen.

You have a propensity to speak in absolutes about things you will more than likely will be wrong about. You also like to take poor results from 2024, and translate them to next season as if it guarantees poor results in 2025. Then in the next breath use success in 2024 as motivation for the opponent that guarantees poor results in 2025.

For example, Nebraska is motivated to rape Iowa in 2025, because of what happened in 2024. However, Iowa will not be motivated by their poor performance against MSU in 2024, and will get rolled again. You somehow do this multiple times in the span of just 10 games.

So, what I’m saying is, you keep whining about crybabies, but are indeed a bitch.

Shut, the fvck, up.
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A lot of yapping, but you aren't saying anything. That's how predictions work, you worthless nutsack. You predict what will happen.

The blatant stupidity on this board continues to amaze me.
 
2D_ said:
  • Iowa State will give us a drubbing, 33-10 loss.
  • Indiana is a ? because I don't see them repeating what they did this year, but I don't know how many players they'll lose going into next year. At least it's at home.
  • Penn State will embarrass us again, they'll drop 40.
  • Oregon will kill us, another easy 40 burger.
  • USC will be an ugly game, but they'll pull away late.
  • I have zero confidence we can stop Michigan State, so that will be a loss.
  • Little debbie will be improved, and after the handshake/prayer controversy, they'll be out for blood. The first strong win against us since joining the B1G, 31-14
  • It will be the first time in years Kirk won't win a single game in November.
Hawks will have to pull out at least 1 unexpected win to be bowl eligible. It's going to be a very rough year, boys.
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ISU loses Higgins and Noel, both tackles and a Center. Their offense is going to take a step back, their defense will be decent, but their Dline was nothing spectacular.

Indiana: LMFAO, google their returners, and they'd better hit a home run at QB with a transfer

Penn State: they could go from something special if players return, but if they decide to head to the NFL early, they might be screwed.
1.) Abdul Carter (defensive player of the year)
2.) Tyler Warren (TE of the year)
3.) Drew Allar (new qb time)
4.) Kevin Winston Jr

Oregon: probably going to be solid again with Moore under center, not going to disagree

USC: LMFAO, that is going to be the biggest cluster ****

Debbie: where do you come up with this crap? They have lost nearly their entire d-line to graduation or portal, they will not be better next year unless little mahomes take a giant step, and that will require an actual line in front of him.
 
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ISU loses Higgins and Noel, both tackles and a Center. Their offense is going to take a step back, their defense will be decent, but their Dline was nothing spectacular.

Debbie: where do you come up with this crap? They have lost nearly their entire d-line to graduation or portal, they will not be better next year unless little mahomes take a giant step, and that will require an actual line in front of him.
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Unless they hit it right w/ the portal.
 
2D_ said:
8/30: Albany W
9/6: at ISU L
9/13: UMass W
9/20: at Rutgers W
9/27: Indiana ?

10/4: BYE
10/11: at Wisconsin W
10/18: Penn State L
10/25: Minnesota W

11/1: BYE
11/8: Oregon L
11/15: at USC L
11/22: Michigan State L
11/28: at Nebraska L

As it stands now, this is how I see it:
  • Iowa State will give us a drubbing, 33-10 loss.
  • Indiana is a ? because I don't see them repeating what they did this year, but I don't know how many players they'll lose going into next year. At least it's at home.
  • Penn State will embarrass us again, they'll drop 40.
  • Oregon will kill us, another easy 40 burger.
  • USC will be an ugly game, but they'll pull away late.
  • I have zero confidence we can stop Michigan State, so that will be a loss.
  • Little debbie will be improved, and after the handshake/prayer controversy, they'll be out for blood. The first strong win against us since joining the B1G, 31-14
  • It will be the first time in years Kirk won't win a single game in November.
Hawks will have to pull out at least 1 unexpected win to be bowl eligible. It's going to be a very rough year, boys.
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No one even knows who our starting QB will be, but Internet experts are already predicting a bad season. A few things are likely.

Isu will lose in Ames.... Again.

We'll beat Michigan State like we usually do... Order restored.

Debbie is out for blood every year. Doesn't matter. 8 losing seasons in a row. We have beaten Debbie 9 of the last 10 years. In 2025 it will become 10 of eleven. We own Debbie. They'll find a way to lose... Again.

Kirk will find a way to go 8+ wins as usual.
 
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