Most surprising road win
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Dont think this compares to any of those. We played well, BYU is not a good team.
Maybe the 1998 win at Iowa to end the streak.
Agreed. It's all about expectations. The circumstances - night game, western road trip, fresh opponent that plays well at home - had us primed to expect a difficult game. Instead we got what we'd probably have seen had the game been in Ames. Probably helped that we seized momentum early so they didn't get confidence.
OU 2017 and it's not very close.
The line was 33 points or something and that OU team was a legit playoff team that was a horribly coached defense from playing in the title game.
The line was 33 points or something and that OU team was a legit playoff team that was a horribly coached defense from playing in the title game.
I mean even the local news is killing them. So not really surprised
"That BYU’s current roster has been overmatched has been apparent since the 44-11 shellacking at TCU a month ago. It was masked somewhat by the 27-14 win over Texas Tech, which was playing with a third-string quarterback who gift-wrapped BYU a couple touchdowns.
Since then, BYU has been outscored 117–26 and been exposed as easily the worst 5-5 team in America."
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"That BYU’s current roster has been overmatched has been apparent since the 44-11 shellacking at TCU a month ago. It was masked somewhat by the 27-14 win over Texas Tech, which was playing with a third-string quarterback who gift-wrapped BYU a couple touchdowns.
Since then, BYU has been outscored 117–26 and been exposed as easily the worst 5-5 team in America."
Analysis: BYU again shows it isn’t ready for Power Five football, gets embarrassed at home by Iowa State
Cougars’ brand as a solid, competitive football program is being damaged by blowout after blowout in the Big 12.
KidSilverhair
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I think this has to be the answer. Absolutely nobody saw Kyle Kempt leading the Cyclones into Norman and coming back from 14 points down to beat the 4-0 Sooners.
This, nothing will be more shocking. I was surprised how much we dominated BYU, but expected to win still. Byu is a 5-7 team this year.
That’s the worst team we’ve played since UNI, in my opinion - them and Baylor. We played like **** against Baylor, played almost perfectly last night.
2011. Barnett's first game. Tech wasn't ready for ISU's new offense. They had beaten OU a week earlier and couldn't get traction.
Agreed except for that 2005 A&M team stunk too. They were 5-6 and lost their last 4 in a row.
Awesome game last night. One thought I’ve had is that can we ever just say Iowa state played a great game without diminishing their performance by saying oh team x is terrible or not good. I get BYU isn’t great, but it’s definitely been a trend this year when we play well. Take the Win and celebrate their efforts!
This was unique in that, in the first 3 minutes...seemed we were gifted everything, but then BYU tore through our defense.
But, we asserted ourselves and absolutely was in the driver's seat (and far behind the gimmes in the first few minutes).
Definitely feels good to go into an away venue and dominate, but as others have shared, not sure I'd put this on an " all timer" list as id hope it'd be the norm to be able to go beat a team you should beat
But, we asserted ourselves and absolutely was in the driver's seat (and far behind the gimmes in the first few minutes).
Definitely feels good to go into an away venue and dominate, but as others have shared, not sure I'd put this on an " all timer" list as id hope it'd be the norm to be able to go beat a team you should beat
There is variance with the topic -- it can encompass major upsets, of course, but also margin of victory compared to expectation and yes, in some cases the opponent wasn't "all that good" but at the time the game was played, we weren't aware. (example of that is 2010 at Texas).
