Hawkeyes were 3-5 against these teams... however, most of those games were played with a combination of a rookie QB, inexperienced receivers and two FRESHMEN tackles. If they win their bowl game, objectively speaking, it will have been a good year! (OMG, that loss to Purdue sucked.)
Iowa played 8 bowl teams!
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I think that only lowly Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois did not get bowl bids. I think we played 9 bowl teams.
Again. If it weren’t for that pathetic Purdue game, and getting crushed by Wisconsin, this would have been a pretty solid season with some could, shoulda, woulda’s. Iowa has got to stop losing those games.
Not a big difference but we were 4-5 against bowl teams.
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"this would have been a pretty solid season with some could, shoulda, woulda’s. Iowa has got to stop losing those games."
This sums up alot of seasons of Iowa football.
This sums up alot of seasons of Iowa football.
I was worried about Purdue and posted as such here. The Boilermakers are going to be back. They are well coached.
ISU played 10 -- assuming you count UNI's participation in the second round of the BCS playoff a bowl game. Kansas and Baylor somehow didn't get invited. Everybody else on the schedule did. Good guys were 5-5 against them.
I'm going with one can't count FCS teams as "bowl" teams. That would make Iowa and ISU one of very few teams to play 9 bowl teams and go to a bowl themselves. Each was 4-5 against them. Even Notre Dame's much vaunted schedule had 9 (they went 6-3 against them).
So does Oklahoma they've lost eight games to double digit dogs in the last seven years, 2 have been 30+ point underdogs....
And yes that's football
Cool - until you factor in most mediocre teams go to a bowl game this day in age.
Does NOT count.
Agree - one of the more frustrating things about the Ferentz era. Looking back over the years, if the Hawks beat the teams they should (favored in) each season, they would be a consistent top 20 program every year with the occasional top 10 finish and bowling every season.
FWIW we were dogs in 5 games...and honestly what you just said encompasses pretty much every team to a degree.
As I said above about Ou, Clemson, etc...
Not at all, Iowa saves that for the bowl game.
I agree cmhawks99. Oh, wait....according to a couple dipshits on this site, I am cmhawks99, LOL.
LOL....well then you are in good company. Easy to gauge the quality of an individual by his enemies!
I do try to guard my brand image a little tighter than that....
Over one hundred other D1 college football teams would love to have this problem ... quit being a baby.
Half of them don't go 7-5 & beat two top five teams or go 9-4, 10-2, 9-3, 9-3, 11-2 & 12-1... that's exemplary! Anyway you slice it....
Who beat two top 5 teams? Also, who's records are you counting any why are you counting losses.
Iowa State, and you have the ability to go and look at Iowas schedule just like me....top 6 schedule, that's above and beyond even for a historical critic like you!
So there were 91 teams bowl eligible this year? I wish people did not exaggerate so much.
Like usual, you are a hyperbole spewing idiot. Do you know how to make a point intelligently and using facts? I would bet you are a Trumpster and you have listed that you went to the school of 'hard knocks' on your FB page. You certainly are no 'Aristotle' and if you paid for higher education, you should try to get your money back.
Quite the assumption. No. I do not consider teams that don't go to bowls as being bowl teams. Call me crazy.
Totally agree with you, but a Ferentz team has never been consistent, and never will be.
Minnesota and Nebraska both got placed in (wink, wink) "Bowl Games" with sub .500 records. 75 % of the teams in "Bowl Games" should be at home thinking of ways to be good enough to actually be in a real Bowl Game, with honest to goodness deserving teams. The ones that are rewarded for exemplary seasons.
A dozen Bowl Games would be plenty, and have most of the country actually give a damn about viewing them.
It's that 6-3 thing that gets us. After we win the bowl we will be .500 against bowl teams. "Good". (Good work outta you on the records.)
Hell getting in a bowl game is not what it once was, i have a bowl ring from a 6 win team, smh.
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