I think it's much more likely with the super conferences. The real question is if the SEC will go to nine conference games. Iowa almost certainly has to drop Iowa State if this happens.
Everyone at Iowa wants to dump the isu game.I dont subscibe so I didnt read it. I would like to play some of their teams and get out of the yearly ISU game.
Sources: Big Ten, SEC eye schedule partnership
SEC and Big Ten athletic directors will meet next week to discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling and preferences for automatic bids, sources told ESPN.www.espn.com
If the ISU - Iowa game is mandated by the State then why do the schools have to keep renewing the contract which is in the news every few years. I think the State Govt mandated it back in 1979 and for awhile but not sure that it is mandated in this day and age of getting huge contracts to play someone else.
A playoff is 100x better than the BCS crap it started with.
I think they threatened to before the series started back up in ‘77, but it is not mandated.
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That bleeping conference should get an at large bid at best, not a 4 seed.
Which is ironic because it looks like Iowa State is going to be consistently relevant now and that game will actually do what Iowa wanted it to do for decades rather than just be a really bad loss if they dropped that game.
That would be interesting if it’s a total breakaway. 9 conference games and 3 games against SEC teams.
No way Iowa signs off on this especially with KF hanging around another decade. Adding a loss to a SEC team and dropping Albany , with all these new Big 10 losses coming, simply is not happening.I dont subscibe so I didnt read it. I would like to play some of their teams and get out of the yearly ISU game.
Sources: Big Ten, SEC eye schedule partnership
SEC and Big Ten athletic directors will meet next week to discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling and preferences for automatic bids, sources told ESPN.
What about Nebraska though???? I heard since they lost to Bert at home on a Friday night they have said they never again want a Friday night game at home.
I agree with your statement.
Based on what's coming, Iowa will have a decision to make. Either get rid of the Iowa State game, so you can keep 7 home games annually, or deal with playing 6 home games every other year with a tougher schedule.I dont subscibe so I didnt read it. I would like to play some of their teams and get out of the yearly ISU game.
Sources: Big Ten, SEC eye schedule partnership
SEC and Big Ten athletic directors will meet next week to discuss a possible partnership in football scheduling and preferences for automatic bids, sources told ESPN.
Please cite the legislative Iowa Code that mandates them playing. I'll wait but you won't find it.
I think we can rule out Iowa playing six home games every other year to keep playing ISU every year.
I am not quite sure why you are referring to the Iowa State game as the state's biggest money maker, do you think Iowa/Bama would be any less? Not to mention bigger TV audiences. It is a wash, replace Iowa St with an SEC team and we will still play two cupcakes. There is nothing to be gained from playing Iowa State. I am all in, I hope it happens. I would much rather see Mizzou than Moo U.
Honestly, the reason to mandate this game, to ensure a nice payday for Iowa State when they hosted it, isn't necessary anymore. They aren't having the attendance issues they used to have and should be able to be self sustaining at this point. Maybe that will change in the future but as the saying goes, cross that bridge when you get to it.
Actually, that's the only scenario unless the Big Ten adds a conference game.
The annual money difference will eventually create a much wider gap. Maybe then they will end it.Actually, that's the only scenario unless the Big Ten adds a conference game.
In years where we play in Iowa City, we only get 4 conf. home games. 2 OOC games + ISU means 7 home games. In years we play AT Ames, we have 5 conf. home games + 2 OOC home games for a grand total of........7.
Add an SEC team into the mix. That's a guaranteed alternate home one year and on the road the next.
Regardless of how you spin it, we'll end up with 7 one year, 6 in another.
Even if we flipped the 5/4 model it would still come out the same, unless they changed when we're on the road and when we're hosting an SEC team......then it could be 5 and 8!
Iowa is not getting rid of the ISU game, so that's how it'll have to be.
