Only in the Big 10

[M3MEPLEASE]

But a .500 record in the Big 12 means you're competing for a Big Ten championship this year. 90% of the Big 12 is as good or better than CCG Wisconsin. Fans in Iowa compare the two leagues and records and it's stupid. It's apples to oranges now. There aren't 3-4 easy wins in the Big 12 like there used to be, the league is stacked.

Comical that you are trying to make a point by using Wisconsin as a conference championship contender.

Are you still claiming the Big 12 is going to be a better basketball conference going forward too?

[michaelrr1]

If Iowa State beat half the NFL teams they wouldn't be this Iowa State team, but since you think record is all that matters and who you play is meaningless, I guess they could hang in the NFL.

There are 4-5 easy wins to be had in the Big Ten and an extra non-conf game that can be an easy win. Going 6-6 with Minnesota or Iowa's schedule isn't remotely like going 6-6 with a top 10 schedule.

But go on thinking it's exactly the same to be 6-6 playing in the MAC and 6-6 with a top 10 schedule.

If we lose to all the good teams (the ones that inflate the SOS), it's still a loss. Name a good team we defeated this season.

[cyclones500]

Well if we get paired with them we better beat them, amiright?

Exactly.

This theme feels like shooting ourselves in the foot with a karma gun.

All the chest-thumping last season about the schedule brutality, then Iowa State couldn't beat Rutgers in a bowl game — some of us would've claimed RU would have been lucky to finish 4-8 vs. last season's ISU schedule (and common opponent UConn — Iowa State W; Rutgers L)