then rankings are also opinions and not facts, because the weight placed on different criteria for determining what the 'rankings' are has elements of subjectivity--and not facts.
The rankings I used are facts not opinions. Total defense is the accumulation of your opponents total yards divided total games. Points per game is the total of your opponents total scores divided by games. No weight is placed on any of these stats. The only subjectivity is the stats that I chose to use. If you have stats you feel are better and can be researched please do.
Is Parker's defense very successful, since it is obvious it is not championship level, or the other teams offense bad? Why do you give Parker's defense credit rather than assume we is playing a bad offense? And of course when looking at Iowa's offense we should look at the defense they are playing. since often we are playing a defense as good or better than Iowa's.
2021 In 2021 we played Wisc #1 in total defense, Minn #4, ISU #10, Mich #12, Kentucky #26, Purdue #31, PSU #35, Illinois #50, and Neb #51. 9 of 14 games we played a top 51 defense. We played 1 defense in the bottom 26.
2022 Iowa played 7 top 15 defenses or over half our schedule and 3 more in the top 65 with the worst ranked at 100 of 131 in total defenses.
Why does the Big 12 have great offenses in 2022. This is the reason, ISU at #10 was the best defense in the Big 12 followed by #54 Texas. On the flip side the worst defense we played was Neb at #100 who allowed 414 YGP, while ISU played Texas Tech #108, Ohio #109, Okla St #115, Oklahoma #123, and Kansas #127. Oklahoma and Kansas both allowed over 460 yards per game.
