Forest 1960 ---- Hayden 1981
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May have to lower the bar a bit and be happy with division titles. Granted, this probably isn't the best Wisconsin team ever (much like I don't think Iowa's best-ever team was 2015) but they couldn't even get past 2-loss OSU. The West champ will probably nab 2 CCG wins a decade - maybe 3 if we're lucky.
Not exactly sure what you're trying to say, but I'd say it is now decidedly EASIER for Iowa to win a conference championship now that the conference has been split into divisions, and Iowa is now in the West. Instead of competing against the entire conference, they're only competing against the other members of their own weaker division and just whoever come out on top of the East. Obviously there will be crossover games that will make some seasons tougher than others, but it will be a common theme for the B1G West champ to be the 3rd-4th best team in the conference and yet have a shot at the title.
It's easier for Iowa to win a division title, but not easier to win the entire conference. Yes, Iowa came damn close to winning the B1G in 2015 (and probably could, maybe even should have won in Indy, but that's water under the bridge) but most years Sparty is 3rd or 4th banana in its own division. It won 10 games this year but still came behind OSU and PSU. Iowa and Wisconsin are Sparty's peers in the pecking order.
Yes, upsets do happen, but most - if not all - seasons going forward, the West champ will find itself a sizable underdog to the East champ.
Agreed. No tying for conference titles anymore. Winning a division is about the equivalent of tying for a conference title in previous years. Winner of the West will almost always be playing a giant in the conference title game.
So, basically you're asking if Iowa fans feel it will be longer than 8 years before we win another conference title? 
When I hear that Eve was Iowa's all time great coach it makes me cringe. I lived through those years and if the coaches today were allowed to recruit the same kind of student athletes they could also win. Those late fifties teams had great football players that shouldn't have been on campus. As I've said before the best job some had after pro ball was bouncer at the Call ballroom.
True but it was undefeated can’t out it in Kirk if he goes undefeated in league
random factoid
Iowa had at least one title in the
50s
60s
80s
90s
00s
whiff in the 70s and probably the current decade
that 2015 CCG stings
Iowa had at least one title in the
50s
60s
80s
90s
00s
whiff in the 70s and probably the current decade
that 2015 CCG stings
Yep, really need to get one between 18 and 19. If next years LB's step up, with a somewhat easier schedule, next season could be the Hawks shot.
