It hasn't been funny or relevant for many years now. Neither team treats this game as their super bowl.
Can the "Super Bowl" crap please stop
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You are posting that message on the wrong team's board. That whole line of ******** was invented by idiot HAwk shills like Jon Miller who couldn't handle the fact that Iowa lost to ISU. Now, ISU people sometimes throw it around because it is so damn stupid and yet reflective of the Hawkeye psychology.
I've heard it 10 to 1 hawk fans to cyclone fans, but you're right, it's gotten under the skin of some cyclone fans. Every thread on this board it's been mentioned about once every 10 posts. smh
And I don't post on an Iowa board but there's more than enough that read here on CyFan.
I don't think this is either team's favorite game to win but it is clearly the game both teams hate to lose the most.
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I agree that it is no Super Bowl for either team, but most years it is the biggest nonconference game played by both teams. Often it is our only P5 nonconference game.
I'll bet for both Pitt and Penn State, their game this week is the "game they hate to lose the most" too.
Biggest game might be when you have 5 wins and playing for #6. Or conference championship game. Or for undefeated...you never know.
It's the ******* Bubble Bowl to Jon Miller & his 4+ aliases on here, so **** him & the other 3 or more.
Back In 97 to 00 Iowa fans would always use the lame excuse that they only lost because it was early in the season and their teams improved always. Then in 01 they played late in the year and behold...it was another pathetic excuse like "super bowl".
CycloneErik
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False. It's clearly Iowa's Super Bowl.
Who's performing at halftime? I hope it's not Bruno Mars everyone says he's so "entertaining" but I think he's trash. I don't buy hype and I don't buy major media/record label created garbage either. So **** the super bowl. **** Bruno mars. And **** Iowa. Out.
As long as we play Iowa, there will always be that excuse. Iowa fans think they have a far superior team every year. Regardless, both teams play a little harder this week because they have kids from the state. It gives the game more meaning to them.
Win or lose, we will hear bs from hawk fans.
Win or lose, we will hear bs from hawk fans.
It has become a real sore point game for a lot of Iowa fans, because they are always sure that Iowa is light years better than ISU, which obviously is not always the case. DMac always made the game a top priority, but Cizik, and CPR treated it as just another game. Campbell definitely is more concerned about what his team is doing than what any other team is doing. He understands that if you get better, winning games, even the Iowa game will happen. There is no secret super power that ISU congers up for this week. The main reason that ISU sometimes tanked after beating a decent Iowa team is decades of teams with no depth. Once 5 or 6 starters get hurt or dinged up the quality of the team goes down fast.
You want to know the truth behind the "superbowl" excuse? Hayden Fry treated the ISU game as the most important game of the year (Don't defend it Hawk trolls, you know it's true). He knew that beating the living crap out of ISU meant they would never compete against ISU for in-state recruits. Dan McCarney coached under Hayden Fry and likely bought into the same philosophy. When McCarney went to ISU, he used the same philosophy but reversed it against Iowa. So yes, I will give Hawk fans that the Iowa game meant more to ISU in the McCarney years. Any time since McCarney left, if Iowa fans makes the "it's ISU's superbowl" excuse it is just a lazy and convenient way to protect their precious Hawkeyes.
