Imagine that.
If you think about it, this year is probably the best shot at it we have ever had?
If you think about it, this year is probably the best shot at it we have ever had?
What if Iowa won the national championship?
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I think 1985 was our best shot. We just had to beat tOSU just like probably this year and then win the Rose Bowl. Unlike this year though, I think we were favored in all of those games, maybe wrong about the tOSU game.
I'm not so sure. I love this team, but we've definitely had more talent in the past. With the way the Big Ten West is set up now, I can see us having more shots than ever before.
Would make the Fappening2015 look like a sewing circle. And I'm spent ...
Yeah, that year was awesome, although I was only 10, so the details on the season are a bitch sketchy to me.
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing for that FG win over Michigan though.
I suppose if we are counting basketball as well that final four team would have to be thrown into the conversation.
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing for that FG win over Michigan though.
I suppose if we are counting basketball as well that final four team would have to be thrown into the conversation.
If Iowa won the National Championship, they’d change the playoff system immediately.
If they win the national championship, I'll get a tattoo of the hawk head.
I am not buying the talent argument. How do you know? A lot of the kids producing are sophomores and juniors. I think CJ is the most talented QB we have had under Ferentz - that's a big one. Iowa is very deep and dare I say has a lot of talent at RB. There will be OL and DL drafted to the NFL JJ is a beast.. The LB position is looking very good and is very young. I think the secondary is the most talented under Ferentz. The fact that Iowa has done so well with all of the injuries doesn't back up talent assessment.
Open weeping and crying. In public, at work, you name it. I'd be a slobbering mess and happy as hell. Oh, probably alcohol infused as well. People would understand.
If Iowa wins the championship, ESPN will use the excuse that Iowa didn't play anyone all year so they were able to focus on the playoffs and didn't exert themselves week in and week out. Then a mythical ESPN national championship trophy would be created and given the SEC champion.
What's sad is that I don't doubt that the 'power' players would try to find a way to argue for SOS, without actually looking at our SOS.
NFL Talent on the D-line, and O-line. NFL potential in CJ, 4 pretty good RB's, a whole stable of talented TE's, a talented kicker, NFL talent all over the defense, decent enough talent at WR, we aren't bad by any means. Iowa has shown depth at multiple positions.
What would happen???? Massive riots in the Southeast US. 2016 "way too early poll comes out and we are ranked 24th....7 SEC teams and Memphis ahead of us.
Well, since Iowa won it in '58, I wouldn't say this year is the best shot Iowa's ever had at it.
Agreed. Everyone looks at the 2009 team and sees, with the advantage of perspective 6 years later, which guys made the NFL. Who would have argued in 2009 that Karl Klug would make the NFL, let alone be in his 5th year in 2015?
There are a lot of guys like Niemann, Jewell, Mabin, James Daniels, George Kittle, etc., who could end up in the NFL, when it may not be so obvious right now.
And a 15-0 season will make their NFL odds much better.
Agreed. Everyone looks at the 2009 team and sees, with the advantage of perspective 6 years later, which guys made the NFL. Who would have argued in 2009 that Karl Klug would make the NFL, let alone be in his 5th year in 2015?
There are a lot of guys like Niemann, Jewell, Mabin, James Daniels, George Kittle, etc., who could end up in the NFL, when it may not be so obvious right now.
And a 15-0 season will make their NFL odds much better.
I think its fair to say we don't have a lot of day 1 draft talent. We may have a lot of late-round, try-hard talent. The one thing this team has going for it is pretty good talent distribution throughout the roster. We don't have any really weak units. The LBs upped their game, the DL lacks depth but is hanging in there, the O-line came along, and our top WRs are pretty decent.
They won 1 poll out of about 12 taken. This year will be legit. This is no doubt the best Hawkeye team of my lifetime. Need to finally cash it in.
KFs contract extended until 2060. And I would be perfectly fine with that.
I was thinking specifically of the 2002 squad. CJ is amazing, but Banks was a Heisman runner-up! Our receivers were probably better in 2002, but that's maybe close. RB we're possibly better today, definitely deeper. But everywhere else, both lines, linebackers, and defensive backfield were hands down better in 2002. Take that squad and put it in this year, especially with the other talent I see in the top 10, I think we run the table with no questions asked.
Please don't take this as bad-mouthing this year's squad! They have a chance to do something amazing. But as a whole, I think the 2002 squad was the best in the Ferentz era.
I'd put the 2002 team as the best I've seen. They lost to ISU because they didn't realize yet how good they really were, and Banks with his thumb issue. They lost to USC because despite how good Iowa was, USC may in fact have just been better. Plus of what we heard from KF and how he felt he didn't practice well enough for the game. Despite that I think few teams could have beat Iowa as soundly as USC did, or even at all. Including thug U and the Ohio State that year.
Give 2004 team a running game, and they may be the best, or have Shonn Greene and a healthy Hampton come back in 2009 and they may have also been the best.......I'm confusing myself. Actually though, I'd say 2009 was still the best. Stanzi stays healthy and they probably win out.
I get your point, but It wasn't a poll -- it was the Grantland Rice trophy that the Football Writers of America give to their national champions. Pretty legit.
It's not like it was the Hills, Iowa Rotary Club outstanding achievement in the field of excellence award.
If Iowa won the national championship it would probably mean they beat Ohio State, and 2 other no loss or 1 loss highly ranked teams to end the season. If they won all 3 of those games they would deserve to be national champions and the world would see that at that point.
Our best shot IMO was 2002. Up 24-7 at half to a not great ISU team and we know how that played out. Also, couple that with OSU pulling freaking magical wins out of their ass all year to get the championship game. We win that game and OSU loses...which they should have 3-4 times. Still cant believe they got that 4th and whatever 50 yard play to win at Purdue. Here are their final games that year.
Those two things happen and we are at least playing for it.
October 19 3:30 PM at Wisconsin #4 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI ABC W 19–14 79,729
October 26 3:30 PM #17 Penn State #4 Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH (Rivalry) ABC W 13–7 105,103
November 2 3:30 PM #19 Minnesota #4 Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH ABC W 34–3 104,897
November 9 12:00 PM at Purdue #3 Ross–Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN ABC W 10–6 65,250
November 16 3:30 PM at Illinois #2 Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL (Illibuck Trophy) ABC W 23–16 OT 58,810
November 23 12:00 PM #12 Michigan #2 Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH (The Game) ABC W 14–9 105,539
January 3, 2003 8:00 PM vs. #1 Miami (FL)* #2 Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ (Fiesta Bowl/BCS National Championship Game) ABC W 31–24 2OT 77,502
Those two things happen and we are at least playing for it.
October 19 3:30 PM at Wisconsin #4 Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI ABC W 19–14 79,729
October 26 3:30 PM #17 Penn State #4 Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH (Rivalry) ABC W 13–7 105,103
November 2 3:30 PM #19 Minnesota #4 Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH ABC W 34–3 104,897
November 9 12:00 PM at Purdue #3 Ross–Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN ABC W 10–6 65,250
November 16 3:30 PM at Illinois #2 Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL (Illibuck Trophy) ABC W 23–16 OT 58,810
November 23 12:00 PM #12 Michigan #2 Ohio Stadium • Columbus, OH (The Game) ABC W 14–9 105,539
January 3, 2003 8:00 PM vs. #1 Miami (FL)* #2 Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ (Fiesta Bowl/BCS National Championship Game) ABC W 31–24 2OT 77,502
I am out on the defensive comparisons. The 2002 defense got lit up in several games. Several.
I love Rotary Club smack! I guess I didn't mean it wasn't a title, just that the AP, coaches and a bunch of others named LSU national champs (even though they only played against teams comprised of what George Jefferson would call "honkies"). Instead of 'legit' I should have written 'undisputed'.
1985 was Iowa's best shot at winning a national championship even after Ohio St. loss. Everything fell Iowa's way during the bowl season except Iowa lost to UCLA. Sporitng news had four helmets on its cover before the New Years bowl games saying one of these will be national champs. Iowa was one of the four. I still have that Sporting News.
They won the poll that was conducted after the bowl games. The AP and UPI polls were not. And I don't think any other poles had the legitimacy of those three.
I agree 1958 counts IMO. If Alabama and ND claim all of their NC, why can't Iowa claim their one?
1958 my mom was 16
1985 I was 16
2015 my kid is 16
QB16 leads us to a NC
It's a numbers game
1985 I was 16
2015 my kid is 16
QB16 leads us to a NC
It's a numbers game
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