Iowa has played a tougher schedule than the following 1 loss teams ahead of them in the AP poll
Georgia
Florida
Ohio st
Kentucky
WV
Washington St
And 2 loss PSU
http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm
Texas number #6 in the AP Poll?
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Iowa has played a tougher schedule than the following 1 loss teams ahead of them in the AP poll
Georgia
Florida
Ohio st
Kentucky
WV
Washington St
And 2 loss PSU
http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm
Yeah but those teams were already top 25 before the season or have beaten top 25 opponents. Who have we beat so far? Who's our best win? Our loss is to a top 25 team that is only ranked right now because they beat us.
We are one special teams blunder from 7-0, top ten...kinda tough to take...i see enough Big 12 football to know they are barely better than the Pac, don’t see any of them as top ten...
The only teams OU has played with more than three wins so far are Army who the beat in OT and Texas they lost to...how is that schedule tougher than ours?
Sagarin has us with the 28th toughest schedule.. while it isn't murderer's row it isn't exactly a cakewalk either. Our SoS is better than a lot of teams that are ranked above us.
While the whole "who have we beat?" question is legit, the other thing I'd ask is aside from Wisconsin, who has even come close to beating Iowa?
ISU is probably the best answer, but they're a good team. I think they will be 7-5 or 8-4 this year. The latter probably has them ranked at the end of the season. Even still, they didn't do much on offense outside of that first drive.
ISU is probably the best answer, but they're a good team. I think they will be 7-5 or 8-4 this year. The latter probably has them ranked at the end of the season. Even still, they didn't do much on offense outside of that first drive.
The Purdue offense is a totally different animal with Blough at quarterback and over the past couple of weeks OSU has been exposed as a one dimensional, pass only team,... not hard to figure out....
End of the day minus 3 non conference games Iowa has no control on who they play in conference. But I always love when Iowa does well how clone fans try and discredit Iowa's schedule and the whole "you haven't beaten anyone good narrative" and then we hear how "tough" their Big 12 schedule is. End of the day Iowa is ranked and ISU is an after thought again at 3-3.
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But isn't that a little bit of an oddity? OSU arguably would have had a better game against the Hawks last season had they run the ball with Dobbins more. I still think that Hawks would have won ... but the game likely would have been closer.
Similarly, this year, OSU has excellent RBs in Weber and Dobbins ... and yet I'm perplexed at how the RBs are utilized. Perhaps they rely so much on the short game, passing the ball ... that it makes it easier to defend the run? But, for whatever reason, you're right ... despite the talent-level they have ... they've rendered themselves mostly 1-dimensional offensively.
This is where the rankings are flawed imo ...what you describe above should actually be taken into consideration.
Example
Team A (ranked #22) beats Team B (ranked #9) in week 2...so Team A jumps to #12, while Team B drops to #17 the following week.
Skip ahead 4 weeks, Team A has won all their following games against unranked opponents and now sits at #7 (because of some teams ranked higher than them losing), while Team B has gone on to lose a 2-3 more games and are no longer even receiving votes.
Tell me, should Team A still benefit from that early season "upset"??
Same thing; play a weaker schedule, win more games. Not rocket science.
Congrats on the Clones #1 strength of schedule. I’m sure the commemorative coins are being minted as we speak.
Why rip on an Iowa team? Seriously it’s your opinion and your right but if Iowa beats a good team as Iowa Sate ... wouldn’t you want them to win out? It only makes Iowa’s win over them better .. and style points may come to play at the end of the season ... you just never kn the U OF IOWA.. very proud of it but not born and raised in Iowa so I can understand the animosity towards them but for me I like Iowa State, I don’t like them when they play Iowa of course but still.. again, to each his own.... not knocking your post I guess I just don’t get it
OU doesn’t exactly have a tougher schedule this year
OU is just glad they have an interim DC!
I still don’t think okie st is that great. Look at their 3 losses. Congrats had a good win yesterday. Look at last year we beat Osu and 2 years ago Michigan and we were average. Upsets happen but still think they are average at best. Will see how Texas fares rest of year too
Okie State has a very good offense, especially if a team isn't accustomed to seeing that kind of thing. Their defense was better last night than it's been all year.
Texas is an interesting case. I've said here before that they're overrated.....but you could say that about half the teams in the top 25 this season. They lost by less than a TD to two decent but not great teams in Maryland and Okie State and they barely scraped past some weaker teams (Tulsa by 7, Kansas State by 5, Baylor by 6). On the other hand, they dominated Oklahoma until the final 10 minutes or so before damned near losing it, and they handled USC fairly well.
Herman is a good coach, the facilities are unmatched, and I would imagine they have as many four and five star players on the roster as any team in the country. If they aren't really back this year, they will be very soon, IMHO.
We will know more about Texas after the next three games: West Virginia, Texas Tech and Iowa State.
