B10 West scenarios
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I'm not diminishing it any more than Iowa did to themselves with the degeneration of their offense by the end of the season, that translated into what we got in 2022 and 2023...............
I already explained it. Just assume Ohio State won't be chicken sh**s and intentionally choke against Minnesota and it'll all be fine.
My honest feeling is that Iowa is a more solid team in all 3 phases than the next 2 teams they face and that is without Cooper. We know that our punter is better than theirs and our place kicker. Sucks to lose Cooper returning punts but seriously if anybody punted to him they would be stupid anyway at this point. Defensively we are superior to both teams as well and on offense we run the ball better than both. Illinois may have a better passing game, but, if they can't run the ball their passing game, even without Cooper is going to be tough sledding because I bet Phil is going to zone them up all day long and make him hit windows. Illinois is not disciplined enough, especially on defense, but offense as well so the likelihood of them sustaining 15+ play drives is very low.
With both teams the recipe for success is still the same. Run the ball, don't turn it over, play field position, sit on them and capitalize on mistakes. We win.
I think we win them both. I think we take it to Illinois early and it will be in hand all game, while, Nebraska I think they hang around for a half but then we wear them down and they make mistakes they can't overcome.
With both teams the recipe for success is still the same. Run the ball, don't turn it over, play field position, sit on them and capitalize on mistakes. We win.
I think we win them both. I think we take it to Illinois early and it will be in hand all game, while, Nebraska I think they hang around for a half but then we wear them down and they make mistakes they can't overcome.
That doesn't explain why you feel they backed into the 2021 Championship game?? Who else deserved it more?
This is so dumb. Iowa DID NOT BACK IN to their division win 2 seasons ago. You don't "back in" to a championship by winning your last 4 games of the regular season. "Backing in" to a championship is what happens when a team is in control, blows it, but gets rewarded anyway because other teams couldn't take advantage. It is not meant to describe a team that won but needed another game to go a certain way, nor does it mean that a team didn't "deserve it" overall.
Backing in is what Iowa did in 1990 (Lost final game, which cost them the outright B1G championship but they still clinched a tie and the Rose Bowl because Ohio St couldn't beat Michigan). Had Purdue lost to Indiana the final game of last season, Iowa would have been considered backing in to the division championship. And as I said earlier in this thread, should Iowa lose both their final two games this season but still get to go to Indianapolis somehow, that would be a major back-in (probably to the point that they shouldn't even show up, frankly).
No worries. Haven't you heard?....BF, the OL, and Hill have finally gotten it figured out
I think the point is we have won games to put us into this position so it isn't backing in unless you are only counting the last two games. Not antagonistically optimistic just acknowledging you play an entire season to win the division. Even crazier was when people said the Iowa wrestling team backed into the national title a few years by not winning an individual championship.
It'd be a lot easier if you, and everyone else, just assumed I knew what I was talking about. It'd save so many of you the headache of trying to understand why I'm right (key word being understand..........)
As for wrestling, I agree with you that it's because people don't understand how wrestling works.
You could benefit from understanding. You never back in to a championship. You win it all season long! That was my point. Understand?It'd be a lot easier if you, and everyone else, just assumed I knew what I was talking about. It'd save so many of you the headache of trying to understand why I'm right (key word being understand..........)
As for wrestling, I agree with you that it's because people don't understand how wrestling works.
I really don’t think it is me. You root for teams to lose all season long, yes even in October.I'm sorry you don't understand. Go Hawks?
Lol, "root".........yes, that's what I do. Tell them that I'm only "rooting" for them to lose.
We wouldn't want them to know the truth, now would we..........
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