I could see early season disappointments and some late season surprises.
"If this team's got a pulse on offense, they have every right to compete for a College Football Playoff spot."
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If the offense improves from horrendous to mediocre this year we're in business. Phil will have the defense ready to hold up it's end of the bargain.
I'm confident we'll see improvement under Lester...how much improvement is the question.
Well, yeah. I've been saying this for years and years. With the defense Iowa typically has, give it a competent offense, and many years could be more like 2002. And now that the CFP is expanding to 12 teams, that definitely is not a stretch.
That is the question. I think we could lose a close one to OSU and get in, any more then that and it is going to come down to who else lose's to whom. Basically expanding the playoffs made it so a 1 loss team can still get in. How many end up undefeated or with 1 loss?? (then as I said it comes down to who that loss was against and how bad it was)
10 - 2 at worst. I don't think any teams get in with 3 losses. Losses need to be earlier rather than later and no bloodbath losses.
So you might be better off not qualifying for the B1G play off. If you would have two losses and have to play OS or MICH. then some other team behind you could pass you by not playing!!
You get what I’m trying to say!
Maybe time to drop the B1G playoff??????
You get what I’m trying to say!
Maybe time to drop the B1G playoff??????
Problem with 10-2 is how many 2 loss teams were there last year? Figure there are probably always going to be a couple that have 0 loss's. So now you are down to 10 spots left. There will probably be 6?? or so 1 loss teams, so now you are down to 4 spots left. Then how many teams will have 2 loss's??? The only way it doesn't go like that is if a team has 1 loss and a super weak schedule and gets jumped by a 2 loss ream with a really strong sos. But if you had the 50th ranked sos and 2 loss's, I doubt you get in, because there will be enough teams with less loss's or a better sos and 2 loss's.
You might be on to something. Pick a champ like they did before the champ game, add another conference game and that doesn’t sound to bad!
Always agreed with Bob Knight that conference tourneys are not a good thing
This guy from 24/7 thinks Iowa has a chance to be playing in the B1G Championship game. If so, Iowa is probably in the CFP.
Would love to go back to Indy to visit.
More CFP talk surrounding IOWA; this is from this afternoon.
Check this out & watch:
Check this out & watch:
Something tells me the tiebreaker is likely to come into play. I wonder what it is? Could get messy. Head-to-head is out with no divisions.
i propose tenure of hc as the criterion to resolve all cfb related tiebreakers
Full text of the tweet:
Jay Higgins at the Iowa Swarm event in Walcott last night:
“If we keep the same goals, I think the playoff is a realistic thing for us. I think we understand that. Especially with the way our team’s looking, how we’re moving, the leadership we’re bringing back. I think that’s a realistic goal for us.
We’re out here to win. I wouldn’t sugarcoat it and be like ‘oh, we hope we make it to the playoffs.’ That’s a realistic goal for us.”
Jay Higgins at the Iowa Swarm event in Walcott last night:
“If we keep the same goals, I think the playoff is a realistic thing for us. I think we understand that. Especially with the way our team’s looking, how we’re moving, the leadership we’re bringing back. I think that’s a realistic goal for us.
We’re out here to win. I wouldn’t sugarcoat it and be like ‘oh, we hope we make it to the playoffs.’ That’s a realistic goal for us.”
There were five teams with 2 losses in the top 12 CFP after conference championship games last year. The only 2 loss team that would have been left out would have been SMU (#24), which wouldn't have had an argument to get in. That being said, a 2 loss B1G team is probably in the playoff.
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There were plenty of one loss teams that got in the 4 team playoff every year. There will be a few two loss teams in the playoff with 12 teams. An Iowa loss at OSU would not be an issue. A second loss would depend on who and where it was, and probably at what point in the season.....
If you look at the above, 5 teams would have made it. Of course, the records would be different with the PAC teams playing teh B1G teams. You want to go down the rabbit hole...grab a cold one (or three) and start to project this.There were five teams with 2 losses in the top 12 CFP after conference championship games last year. The only 2 loss team that would have been left out would have been SMU (#24), which wouldn't have had an argument to get in. That being said, a 2 loss B1G team is probably in the playoff.
https://www.1011now.com/2023/11/02/big-ten-announces-2024-conference-football-schedule/
And there were 7 no loss or 1 loss teams. So Last year, all 5 of the 2 loss teams may have gotten in. However as I have said before I wonder how much harder it is going to be now to be a no loss or 1 loss team, because the big 10 now has 5 teams who had 2 or less loss's and they all have to play each other. So my point is if more teams like OSU, Michigan, Oregon and such start losing 2 games a year, my thought is there could be more teams with 2 loss's because not having any loss's just got harder in the B10. So they are going to have to lean hard on the SOS in deciding and not so much on wins and loss's, because you will still have teams in other conferences that have the same path (pretty much) as they have always had in trying to go undefeated or suffer 1 loss.There were five teams with 2 losses in the top 12 CFP after conference championship games last year. The only 2 loss team that would have been left out would have been SMU (#24), which wouldn't have had an argument to get in. That being said, a 2 loss B1G team is probably in the playoff.
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And airline miles for all his “laughs” which is bot like in quantity.
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And if Deacon were still here would be the starter
I don't think Lester would have taken the job if he knew KF wasn't going to give up micro managing control of the offense
Just my opinion....
If we have just an average offense this year....
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Yeah it was kind of tongue in cheek. You are right but it took heaven and earth to switch it up!
Nebraska, lolz.
Tough task for Bert to turn that sinking ship around in Champaign. Wouldn't have guessed they were nearly dead last.
This writer predicts that Iowa will be the #10 seed in the college football playoff
www.saturdaydownsouth.com
Predicting the Playoff: No. 10 seed Iowa
How will the Hawkeyes fare in 2024? By getting to that all-important 10 wins.
www.saturdaydownsouth.com
With those odds, I might bet $10.
It wasn't that long ago when teams played a maximum of 12 games.
What's interesting is that a team now could play 17 games this season.
12 reg season games
+ Conf Championship game
+ Round of 12
+ Elite 8
+ Final 4
+ National Championship game
......................................
17 games
Will be fun to see what Dinardo and Howard G say on the Big Ten tour this August. They have more teams to go to now.
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