Will we upgrade our schedule in 2019?

[cidsports]

Fry played a home and home with both Colorado and Oregon. I believe the record was 0-4. The Oregon opener in 1989 was an ugly 44-6 game at Kinnick.

 

[iahawkeyes17]

Playing 9 BIG games a year and having ISU on the schedule limits who else we can play. When we play 4 BIG home games we need to play 3 non-conf games at home to keep our 7 home game revenue. When we play 5 BIG home games we will play at ISU. Any P5 team won't agree to anything but a two game home/away series. This will limit us to non P5 games. The moral of this story is we need to get little step brother off the schedule.

^^^^^^This. Some of our fans can not just understand and grasp this concept. With AD already saying its a priority keeping 7 home games going into 9 conference games next year along with having ISU on the schedule for the foreseeable future we aren't going to see any P5 conference team on the schedule anytime soon besides the clones. Not even the bottom of the barrel teams like Kansas or Wake Forest will agree to come Kinnick with out expecting us to head to their place for a home and home.

 

[RIGHTWINGHAWK]

Getting rid of ISU is a non-issue. It's not happening. Iowa moves into a 9 game B10 schedule. Looking at the current strength of schedule controversy, do we need to upgrade who we play?

2016-ISU, Miami-OH, North Dakota St.
2017-ISU, Wyoming, North Texas
2018-ISU, N Illinois, UNI
2019-ISU, Miami-OH, ????

Miami-OH (3rd from last MAC), North Texas (last CUSA), and Wyoming (bottom of MWC) have all been in ESPN Bottom 10 on and off all season.

With a 9 game rotation in the B10 and ISU on the schedule, I don't necessarily need to see another power 5 on there. Again it saddens me that it is ISU because they do nothing for us. However, I think we can't continue to play FCS schools. I also think we could upgrade our competition from the MAC, CUSA, and MWC. It reminds me of when IA Basketball did an upgrade. I don't think we have to face murder's row, but at the same time we really are scheduling the worst of the worst.

I wound't mind seeing the Hawks schedule K-State. We used to play them back in the 80's

 

[Urohawk]

^^^^^^This. Some of our fans can not just understand and grasp this concept. With AD already saying its a priority keeping 7 home games going into 9 conference games next year along with having ISU on the schedule for the foreseeable future we aren't going to see any P5 conference team on the schedule anytime soon besides the clones. Not even the bottom of the barrel teams like Kansas or Wake Forest will agree to come Kinnick with out expecting us to head to their place for a home and home.

I agree with this. I didn't want to bring up the ISU game because it is there whether I like it or not. I don't mind the other two games being mid majors and they won't be a power five because you can't get to 7 home games. However, my point of this is that we don't have to schedule the bottom feeders of the mid majors. Northern Ill is good and reasonable example of people we could play. Miami-OH was great with Ben Roethelsgber but is bad. North Texas is horrible. How about the Marshalls, Boise State, Bowling Green, Air Force, Hawaii (in a better year), La Tech, etc. We don't have to get the worst of the worst.

I think it is a little bit like Mcaffrey changing the basketball schedule to avoid playing top 300 teams and instead getting top 150 teams to improve the RPI.