The series can end after we beat Iowa 15 times in a row.
Plus, anyone who voted no is either:
A) Lying
B) An idiot
C) An Iowa fan
D) All of the above
For understanding there are more important things in football than playing Iowa?
I literally cannot understand the people in here saying that we should not schedule Iowa for some reason, particularly to play some cupcake.
I, as a fan, would rather a competitive game played over one of the best rivalries in college football instead of a boring "auto-win," even if Iowa State has a rather poor history of even winning those automatic games that we are supposed to have.
Say our win expectation against a cupcake is 0.8 and against Iowa it is 0.4 or so. I would gladly pay what damage that 0.4 win expectation downgrade does to our bowl chances for the fun of playing Iowa. Come on, people, it is good for the state.
Playing another MAC school or Tulsa again in some lame bowl just does not compare.
There have been countless traditional, glorious rivalries disrupted and ruined by the shifting of conferences -- Pitt and West Virginia, Texas and Texas A&M and/or Arkansas, Florida and Miami, Oklahoma and Nebraska, Utah and BYU, Cincinnati and Louisville, to just name a few. There are dozens of them. It is a huge stain on the sport, to me.
That somebody would voluntarily want to do the same to ISU and Iowa is just terrible.
, I like the Iowa game but the 1 big game doesn't outweigh what an easy W every single year could do for the program.
Whenever asked this question, I always go back to Baylors schedule. Look at how they started scheduling in 2012. They bought wins when they were a terrible program trying to get easy wins and build confidence. SOS is irrelevant in college football unless you are a top 10 team trying to make the BCS playoff picture. We aren't even close that conversation, so might as well go and schedule the 3 easiest teams money can find.
Both Iowa and Iowa State face the same prospect. 9 game conference schedule and a need to play 7 home games for revenue purposes. Because we play each other, 10 games are set every year, with each of us playing 5 home and 5 away. So we each need to come up with 2home games, which limits us to mid major schools.
From Iowa State standpoint, not playing Iowa allows us to either schedule wins and help our bowl status or get some P5 variety which would be fun and possibly help recruiting.
From Iowa standpoint, not playing Iowa State allows them to go home and home with another P5 school. Fans get some variety and the national perception is helped. While we all believe our program is headed the right direction, the perception is Iowa plays 2 mid majors and one of the weakest P5 schools every year.
I think we play 2 on and two off. Every player that plays 4 years has one game against the other at each location. It's a win-win in my view.
Arguably, we need our team to make a lot more of those mediocre bowls in order to get good enough to beat UI like a drum.Well I'm old school and really don't get fired up about a 6-6 team making the Boise bowl. Congrats to the team but I'm not going to travel to support that. Iowa is P5 and think way too much of themselves so keep them on the schedule and get good enough to beat them like a drum and enjoy the hawkeye tears. Hell we haven't been all that good in FB and we are basically .500 against them in the last 15 years. It gives the casual fans something to get excited about for a week and have some fun. Plus it makes a boatload of money for whichever town is hosting that year. It also makes some extra money for whatever towns host RVTV that week. If CMC gets to where he is consistently at .500 or better in the B12 we'll be beating Iowa 2/3rds of the time or more anyway.
This is funny in a sad and pathetic way given we've won 8 games in 3 years and just lost to UI by more than 5 touchdowns.I'm guessing that right now Iowa fans feel this way because they know darn well what is coming with CMC program. The tide is about to turn..bit time.
If so, I can live with it, assuming the "easy game" is vs. the worst possible Sun Belt or C-USA team available. Not home-and-home series vs. MAC or MWC teams that occasionally have a pulse.
A poll over on Hawkeye Nation has an 81-19 vote right now on dropping Iowa State! Seems insane to me. Wanted to get this fan base point of view.
https://www.hawkeyenation.com/football/vote-give-isu-game-play-different-power-5-school