Northwestern and Nebraska, but Nebraska has at least given Purdue, Minnesota and Wisconsin a game.
Must be nice….
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As much as I hate EIU, I will admit they win, because they do the little things that add up to big things which means wins in the end. Their special teams year after year are a strength, while ours is a huge weakness. They make field goals, and they have a freshman kicker also, their punts are not 38 yards but pushing 50, and they return punts instead of fair catching them and thereby setting up their horrible offense to get easier opportunities to score.
As great as our defense has played this year, we do not get turnovers, and way to often give up cheap touchdowns, EIU makes you earn every yard that they give up. They stunt in passing situations, blitz when necessary, keeping the offense guessing what they are going to do.
As great as our defense has played this year, we do not get turnovers, and way to often give up cheap touchdowns, EIU makes you earn every yard that they give up. They stunt in passing situations, blitz when necessary, keeping the offense guessing what they are going to do.
Agree - Iowa is actually the epitome of ”win in the margins”. They do the little things that matter and win while having a horrible offense. That shows in the fact that they’re actually finding ways to win when their offense can’t do much.
I hope you are using copy/paste. I’m worried you’re going to get carpal tunnel syndrome.
Although Iowa has a very good defense this is a function of the terrible quarterback play in the Big 10. Mertz at Wisconsin, Morgan and Kaliakmanis at Minnesota, NW and Rutger’s QBs, none would sniff the field for any team in the Big 12. Casey Thompson left Texas because he had no chance of beating out Ewers. He wouldn’t start in the Big 12 either. This is a big reason why Big 10 football is so hard to watch.
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I really want to believe this but then I see, missed kicks, dropped passes, poor oline play, etc. and I’m not so sure.
Minnesota was 1 of 8 in the second half for passing against Iowa. All they can do is run the ball. We would bury that offense. Wisconsin is not good.
ISU is not good either.
ISU's front 7 would struggle with Minnesota and WI's Olines.
They would likely still be close games and ISU has a hard time in that scenario.
F—- Iowa
We are “IOWA STATE”! Older State fans have watched this for decades. After a while one just has to admit that life isn’t fair.
We are “IOWA STATE”! Older State fans have watched this for decades. After a while one just has to admit that life isn’t fair.
Feels like you’re giving some of those west teams a little too much credit with those comparisons but the fact remains that if you go 1 of 5 in the red zone or turn the ball over 5 times you would be lucky to beat Coe College.
Justice would be served if the B1G West wins the B1G Championship game. Would say volumes about the B1G and put the CFP committee into a lather.
No. Then it would just create a level of Hok arrogance (assuming it would be Iowa) heading into next season that would be insufferable and even more nauseating than usual because they wouuld end on a huge win streak.
You would think ISU handles like NW and Purdue but then again you would think they'd have scored pretty easily on KU, OSU, Tech, etc.
They're such a baffling team that it's hard to feel confident in a lot of match ups.
Be interesting to see if Case IH still wants to be a sponsor next year.
Iowa makes FG's, get TO's for td's, doesn't turn it over and finds away to win in the "margins". ISU doesn't do any of those and that's why we lose. For a man that preaches margins, we have to be one of the worst in the country.
I don't think ISU beats Minny, Purdue, or Wisconsin.
I don't think ISU beats Minny, Purdue, or Wisconsin.
I totally agree that our defense would dominate the entire Big 10 West. But our defense has pretty much dominated the entire Big 12, and we have a single win, so.....
Like Hok fans aren't going to arrogant no matter what.
OSU and UM aren't exactly looking like world beaters as of late.
I'd guess it's at least close for a lot of the B1G game.
I think ISU would beat Rutgers and NW and would have been blown out against Michigan and OSU. The other games would have been close, but outside of the Iowa game ironically they haven’t won close games this year or really ever under Campbell. So they would probably have 5 wins with Iowa’s schedule.
Yep, it's largely the "find ways to lose regardless of opponent" aspect that keeps me from declaring ISU would be something like 7-4 right now vs. Iowa's schedule.
I think 6-6 would be reaslistic, though, even with our flaws. Northwestern is horrible, we'd have to try really hard to lose that. And if ISU played Frost-version Nebraska (that is, in September-ish) that's probably a win.
RU, UW, Minnesota, those could depend on what point in the season it occurred, maybe we'd eke out one of them, or we'd have it within grasp and not finish the job (more likely)
