University of Albany Great Danes

[ANYCHawk]

OP has no clue there is a world outside the state of Iowa.

 

[kceasthawk]

I just looked up this highly competitive rivalry between Drake and Iowa in football. From a Fandom website I found the last time Iowa played Drake was 1985. That is 40 years ago so your statement is hazy at best.

Prior to that the game was in 1941. I didnt think Iowa played Drake very much in modern day history.

I would say there are several reasons for playing these lower level teams, 1) it is hard to find teams to schedule sometimes especially when another team drops it scheduled game agaisnt you 2) you want an easier team usually for that very first game as you want to start positive and get video of your issues and 3) it was good to play N Iowa for instance to keep the money in the state and help their program which also goes for N Illinois etc

I Just remembered that we played Drake back when Fry was coaching before they dropped all the way down to D3 I believe. Obviously they didn't have an interest in spending the $$ in playing at that level, in a small state with 2 P5 teams. I just find in funny that people rarely call out SEC teams for playing these games in Nov, so they get an easy win, and can rest starters who are dinged up if needed. One of the main reasons they stayed at 8 conference games instead of going to 9 like the B1G....

 

[kceasthawk]

I mean I could be wrong here but didn’t the university of Chicago used to be a power house back then? They don’t even have a football team anymore.

I believe they were an original charter member of the Big 10 conference and MSU was added in 1950 when U of Chicago gave up football....

 

[uihawk82]

I Just remembered that we played Drake back when Fry was coaching before they dropped all the way down to D3 I believe. Obviously they didn't have an interest in spending the $$ in playing at that level, in a small state with 2 P5 teams. I just find in funny that people rarely call out SEC teams for playing these games in Nov, so they get an easy win, and can rest starters who are dinged up if needed. One of the main reasons they stayed at 8 conference games instead of going to 9 like the B1G....

Oh I squawk about the SEC playing total cupcakes in mid-november all the time on this board and to friends when talking college sports. It is like Bama having an extra bye week before the last game of the season as you say so it is a competitive advantage