Ok. For the billionth time. The horse is dead...stop hitting it.
Iowa's Easy Schedule
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Iowa plays 4 trophy games every season.
You know teams like ISU and Minny are able to summon up some extra juice for the Iowa game. Meanwhile it's not realistic to expect Iowa to bring extra juice 4 different times in a season.
This dynamic alone disqualifies Iowa from ever having an easy schedule
You know teams like ISU and Minny are able to summon up some extra juice for the Iowa game. Meanwhile it's not realistic to expect Iowa to bring extra juice 4 different times in a season.
This dynamic alone disqualifies Iowa from ever having an easy schedule
Minnesota has 4 official and 1 unofficial trophy games.
The easy schedule is a joke argument. Yes the Big 3 in the East are better. Let's take Michigan, one could easily argue they play 2 tough games this year and then cupcake city.
As weak as we think put opponents are, we some have a top 20 SOS
Wonder if OP would like Iowa to play Bowling Green, Western Ky, Delaware. U--Mass. East Carolina Ind st, Towson among others Big ten teams have on their schedules.
Nothing wrong with leaning on a tough defense. It's a solid model. But your offense should at least be around average. Iowa's is dead...last. Dead. Last. In what job do you survive...when you are Dead...Last... in measurable performance.
Barry Alvarez had a very big hand in the Wisconsin footprint.
When he retired that all started to go away to the point of where they are now.
I think Iowa is one of the best average teams. It is not on the level of Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State or Oklahoma etc. Once in a while it puts together a magical season and competes with the big boys. I still think the offense needs some very major improvements.
Iowa is around .500 against the mighty SEC all time. This same bullshit argument has always been around and it is as nonsense now as it has ever been.
Auger you are a tool. Whatever connection you are claiming to have to the program I would guess those in the program and around the program historically roll their eyes when you walk in the room. Assuming you are telling the truth.
Kirk wins games. He beats teams regularly that everyone states are light-years better than Iowa. We have more players in the NFL than most of the teams you seem to think are better than us.
We are not and never will be a national champion unless the stars truly align. It isn't going to ever happen and if that is your standard then go cheer for one of 8 or so teams in the country that can reasonably compete for that every year. Same for the big ten championship. The idea that Iowa should be a regularly competitive for the big ten championship is pure nonsense. There is a reason Ohio state, Michigan, and Penn state are the top three schools normally just like Alabama, LSU, and Georgia are usually tough. Those schools have tangible benefits that cannot be replicated elsewhere. Truthfully Texas should be in the national championship every year and they aren't.
Auger you are a tool. Whatever connection you are claiming to have to the program I would guess those in the program and around the program historically roll their eyes when you walk in the room. Assuming you are telling the truth.
Kirk wins games. He beats teams regularly that everyone states are light-years better than Iowa. We have more players in the NFL than most of the teams you seem to think are better than us.
We are not and never will be a national champion unless the stars truly align. It isn't going to ever happen and if that is your standard then go cheer for one of 8 or so teams in the country that can reasonably compete for that every year. Same for the big ten championship. The idea that Iowa should be a regularly competitive for the big ten championship is pure nonsense. There is a reason Ohio state, Michigan, and Penn state are the top three schools normally just like Alabama, LSU, and Georgia are usually tough. Those schools have tangible benefits that cannot be replicated elsewhere. Truthfully Texas should be in the national championship every year and they aren't.
I don't buy the easy schedule argument ask the players if they think they have an easy schedule. The BIG teams have some of the best players in the country.
This is all so freaking sad.
We’re fans of a 6–1 program but our offense is so horribly embarrassing.. it’s all we think about.
But it makes sense though, the constant frustration…Right? Because we know with certainty, that once a good program takes the field against us (title game) we have little-to-zero chance. We might not even be competitive.
That’s not fun.
We’re fans of a 6–1 program but our offense is so horribly embarrassing.. it’s all we think about.
But it makes sense though, the constant frustration…Right? Because we know with certainty, that once a good program takes the field against us (title game) we have little-to-zero chance. We might not even be competitive.
That’s not fun.
Yes the schedule is crap, but this season Iowa is winning the games they should. This team could lose any game remaining and they’ll be exposed in the BTCG and if they play in a major bowl they’ll be exposed there as well, depending on how many of the opponents players sit out.
This is another fake ID season just like 2015.
This is another fake ID season just like 2015.
So wrong. You might think this. Penn State was the imperfect storm. You need to stop losing that game and move on
I'd argue the b10 has 3 really good teams this year and 4-14 are mostly interchangeable.
See above - analytics would disagree with the weak schedule argument. ISU in particular has rebounded nicely the last few weeks and now looks like a much better W than it did after they lost to Ohio.
If you look at other conferences there are a lot of teams that have fairly easy schedules. See the Pac 12 for instance
Damn I'm just not that worried about it. Maybe one of the other 15 posters on this thread might be as worried as you.
I expect weekly updates on staying relevant.
So who is worse? The guy that does mulitpile threads on similar thing or the guy that spends some time researching another poster's posts while not addressing the content.
We've never played the best SEC team. Those Florida teams were good but there was a reason they were in the Outback Bowl.
The guy that does multiple threads about the same thing.
I don’t totally disagree with Auger, but Christ, give it up. We get it.
So Auger, what do you think the fans of Minnesota, Purdue, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern and Wisconsin should think? PSU certainly does not dominate Iowa when they play. This year’s game was an anomaly and the final score was no where indicative of the game’s competitiveness. ( If Iowa scores early...even a FG, on All’s fumble, Iowa takes a lead and with a PS rookie QB, it’s a different game.)
The only thing that matters is what the UIowa coaches and players are doing. Phuque the naysayers.
Based on discussion here, next season’s schedule isn’t THAT much different.
Good chance to win: Ill St., Iowa St, Troy, Neb, Northwestern, @MSU, @Min
Tougher games: Washington, Wisconsin, @Maryland, @OSU, @ UCLA
It’s not crazy to think Iowa could go 6-1 against the first group and potentially 3-2 against the 2nd. That would put Iowa 8-4/9-3 as they usually are. The big difference is that a 9-3 doesn’t walk them to the CCG.
If Iowa goes 9-3 next year would that be “being protected by a weak schedule”? No USC, no Michigan, no PSU, no Oregon.
I stopped reading at "Iowa is 6-1".
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I thought we'd lose to PSU and Wisconsin and be 5-2 at this point; I had no idea the Badgers would look that bad at home.
And now? Iowa should finish the regular season 11-1.
Iowa's remaining regular season schedule and what ESPN calculates as Iowa's chances of wining each game:
73.0%...Oct 21 vs Minny.................(3-3, 1-2)
..............Oct 28 BYE WEEK
83.5%...Nov 4 at N'western..........(3-3, 1-2)
70.4%...Nov 11 vs Rutgers.............(5-2, 2-2)
75.6%...Nov 18 vs Illinois...............(3-4, 1-3)
67.4%...Nov 24 at Little Debbie...(3-3, 1-2)
In spite of how bad the offense is, this team could still easily win 9-10+ games due to the easy schedule. As others have said, the schedule is what it is, so.. Whatever.
Iowa is finding ways to win against mediocre teams, but I don't see them having much chance in the Big 10 title game (assuming they get there) against whoever comes out of the east, though. Not gonna be able to beat Michigan, OSU, etc. in an ugly, low-scoring contest IMO. We saw what happened in Happy Valley.
The running game had some success Saturday, but Iowa MUST find a way to get the passing game going somewhat to have a chance against whoever wins the east IMO, but I'm not holding my breath.
Iowa is finding ways to win against mediocre teams, but I don't see them having much chance in the Big 10 title game (assuming they get there) against whoever comes out of the east, though. Not gonna be able to beat Michigan, OSU, etc. in an ugly, low-scoring contest IMO. We saw what happened in Happy Valley.
The running game had some success Saturday, but Iowa MUST find a way to get the passing game going somewhat to have a chance against whoever wins the east IMO, but I'm not holding my breath.
Me too. "Should" being the key word. They could lose any of these games as well, should the defense have a less than stellar day or if the offense turns it over. Shouldn't surprise anyone if they are all one score games.
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I'm just curious what is propping up Iowa's SOS over a team like Ohio State? Since Ohio State has Penn State, Michigan and ND and @Wisconsin. Is Youngstown St and Western KY taking them down that much?
I honestly don't follow SOS that much
It's who you've played, not who you're going to play.
Iowa appears to be ranked 16 in SOS per ESPN.
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You can call it a fake ID season all you want lil' bro butthurt.
At least Iowa is getting into the bar
Nebraska? Meh....not so much.
Bwaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaha!!!!
Schedule is what it is. I'll admit I'm a total Brian hater and I think he's embarrassing us but here we are today at 6-1 and honestly we physically just beat the shit out of Wisconsin in Madison, especially on defense. Nothing is going to change on offense. I hate it. I've come to terms w/it however. Our defense is fun as hell to watch. Could we compete w/any of the top 10 teams in looking at the AP poll? Definitely not, possibly North Carolina but they've got some good team speed. Bama 11, Ole Miss 13, Utah 14. I think the problem in playing any top 25 team in general is you probably can't punt 10 times and continue to put that kind of pressure on your defense when the other team has damn good players on offense. Which is what happened in the PSU game. There's such bad QB play in the Big Ten in general and when your defense is as disciplined as ours is it works, and works well. It won't work against the elite teams as they are going to put points on the board. Never thought I'd miss the days of Stanley at QB.
I demand that we go 11-1, win the B1G Championship and then win the next 2 games to deliver @EvilMonkeyInTheCloset a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!
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Whatever team from the West gets to the CCG will lose by 35+.
The East winner will be playing for a #2 seed and won't take the foot off the gas, so to speak.
The State of Iowa could not handle this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There'd be riots all over the state. Tractors overturned, hogs running loose, cats and dogs playing together .......................................
And in that natty title game I would want it to be like a 6 - 3 kind of game.
Cowherd is having a field day. Say's Iowa is just another fraud. He is right. Say what you want but Barta saved these dog crap teams. No chance vs the big boys. See PennSt game and they have a qb that cant complete a over 10 yd pass.
