You mean the team that has a better chance of being in the playoffs every year then we do now with the big 12 getting an auto bid?
Not one good reason to keep that useless, irrelevant series. Up until last year, no one cared outside of the state. By and large, if we lost to ISU, it just meant we were a crappy team. Beat ISU, nobody cared. No body watched outside the state. Piss on that series. I don’t care if it was a guaranteed win every year, it needed to go YEARS ago.
Sorry, but that comment is way overplayed because people don't like that series, but its factually not accurate. Maybe when Fry was coaching and ISU was God awful . Campbell has done a good job, they are recruiting MUCH better then in the past and have been a solid team for most of his tenure. Two years ago they were ranked in the top ten when we played and College Gameday was in Ames. And your comment is NO one cared and NO one watched. BS...Do you think NO one cared in 2002 when the ISU loss (our only loss until the Orange bowl) may have cost us a better shot to go undefeated (USC was a bad matchup, and were probably playing the best football in the country. A team with TWO Heisman trophy winners on it), and a possible undefeated National title. I'm sure NO one cared or had interest in that outcome either..
You can spin it however you want. That series is played out. It's time to schedule new blood.
I'm not spinning anything, and I'm fine if we only played them on occasion, BUT repeated that same old "we gain nothing from beating them " is absolutely ridiculous given the current structure. They came within beating ASU from the playoff, and this will not be the last time given the chances at winning the big 12. I'm fine if people don't want the game, but making silly comments like they are so far beneath us is disengeous, and foolish....
It has nothing to do with them being beneath us or anything like that....for me at least. It's simply a played out series that I think both sides would benefit from at least pausing, if not outright canceling.
And my original statement had nothing to do with you. The poster was being his usual dismissive self, that no one we play is worth a damn. Sorry, but we just aren't REALLY that much better then most of the teams on our schedule. Fry and Kirk gave us a couple of really good runs each, but in all honestly be it in the past and certainly going forward we're a second tier program, (like most of the teams we play), and it will take a lot of things falling into place for Iowa to win the conference or advance beyond the first game in the CFP..
There has been. One rumor is losing the CCG and instead having in-conference play-in games to fill out the B1G's four auto-bids if that's where it ends up... team that finishes 3rd in the regular season playing the team that finishes 6th, and the team that finishes 4th playing the team that finishes 5th, with the two winners getting the 3rd and 4th auto bid.
Wow.There has been. One rumor is losing the CCG and instead having in-conference play-in games to fill out the B1G's four auto-bids if that's where it ends up... team that finishes 3rd in the regular season playing the team that finishes 6th, and the team that finishes 4th playing the team that finishes 5th, with the two winners getting the 3rd and 4th auto bid.
Big Ten and SEC Discussing Possibility of 16-Team College Football Playoff, Regular-Season Scheduling Agreement
The Big Ten and SEC, who hold the authority to determine the next CFP format, are reportedly considering a 14- or 16-team model that would guarantee four berths for both leagues.www.elevenwarriors.com
"An expanded playoff with four guaranteed berths for each conference could also potentially mean the end of the Big Ten and SEC Championship Games, though both conferences are reportedly considering the option of replacing the conference championship games with play-in games for their CFP berths.
One such scenario could feature the conferences’ third-place teams playing against their sixth-place teams with their fourth-place teams playing against their fifth-place teams for the conferences’ last two guaranteed berths. Both Yahoo Sports and The Athletic also floated the possibility that all of the conferences’ top eight teams could play in play-in games, with the first-place team playing the eighth-place team and the second-place team playing the seventh-place team."
It is an important game to some fans. Where I work the Hawk and Cyclone fans each wear their team gear on Friday with lots of good-natured teasing going on. It is fun. However, I assume all BIG and SEC teams will have two easy home games for the other two games. Screw Notre Dame, they can join a conference.
Yes, very stale. When ISU wins it is usually a upset and a very close game. Iowa has a history of winning the much more one-sided games.
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