ISU Bowl Projection

cyclone1209

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I think this is a massive issue that CFB is going to have to figure out. With the 12 team playoff and a totally meaningless bowl games, you have 90% of the CFB teams playing meaningless football right now. In prior years, as you've mentioned you were still fighting to get to a better bowl game. Now, it's just totally "meh".
Go to a 14 game regular season (or 16 game regular season).

Top 16 teams go to playoff. Higher seeds get home field.

Sound like the NFL? Sure, but that's what this is anymore, it's the NFL light.
 

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Honestly the conference titles don’t mean much anymore because you only play half the conference anyway.
Just ends up in tie breakers to decide who plays.
So why even have the conference championship?

Start one week sooner in the season, and ditch the title game and everyone plays another game
14 games and everyone plays 10 conference games.

Seed the teams and go to 16 team playoff.

As far as a bowl, Keep me away from playin another conference team. Give me Orlando
 
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Honestly the conference titles don’t mean much anymore because you only play half the conference anyway.
Just ends up in tie breakers to decide who plays.
So why even have the conference championship?

Start one week sooner in the season, and ditch the title game and everyone plays another game
14 games and everyone plays 10 conference games.

Seed the teams and go to 16 team playoff.

As far as a bowl, Keep me away from playin another conference team. Give me Orlando
I'm still upset that we don't get credit for the conference title in 2020. Played everyone, finished first, but had to do that fake conference title game because of an extra "data point" that talking heads were pushing.
 

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Not if the top players are all opt outs.
The more teams in the playoffs, the less Bowl opt outs. Sure there will be some teams with 1-2 or so, but most of the stacked teams will be in the playoffs. Most guys projected outside the first round still play for another chance to improve their stock.
 
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Thanks for your heartfelt response, obvious troll. Cheer on your Hawkeyes!
Not a hawk troll. Dormed in Helser, graduated in '08. In Campbell's (isu's best coach ever...love him) last 9 years, won 2 bowl games: liberty and fiesta. Virtually every other bowl played, straight up choke job. Look, the lights were too bright, the stage too big. We did NOT belong in the big 12 championship game today. Anyone from the state of Iowa would be embarrassed by today's performance 'clone fan or not. ISU has maybe been blown out in a game once or twice since Campbell's first year? Quite possibly Campbell's worst loss. If I was the other team playing whatever jag-off bowl game they play against isu, I'd be pumped. Easy win knowing we'll choke when all eyes are on us. Maybe Campbell's next hire should be a sports psychologist.
 

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Weird not seeing the posters who were confident only a month or two ago we'd be in Memphis, not saying that they expect us to be in Memphis.
 

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Weird not seeing the posters who were confident only a month or two ago we'd be in Memphis, not saying that they expect us to be in Memphis.

We won by the skin of our teeth against two teams with a combined four Big 12 wins this season. I wouldn't be crowing too much on that point.
 
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We won by the skin of our teeth against two teams with a combined four Big 12 wins this season. I wouldn't be crowing too much on that point.
But I booked my non refundable room after they said it in multiple game threads. I mean, they were pretty sure of it.
 

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But I booked my non refundable room after they said it in multiple game threads. I mean, they were pretty sure of it.
And I booked my non refundable room for the playoffs after reading the CF staff predictions for the Arizona State game. We gonna call them out too?
 

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And I booked my non refundable room for the playoffs after reading the CF staff predictions for the Arizona State game. We gonna call them out too?
You definitely can but I don't think they were continually posting all year that we were going to the playoffs because we were in the lead of a game like the Memphis folks did when we were down.
 

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Not a hawk troll. Dormed in Helser, graduated in '08. In Campbell's (isu's best coach ever...love him) last 9 years, won 2 bowl games: liberty and fiesta. Virtually every other bowl played, straight up choke job. Look, the lights were too bright, the stage too big. We did NOT belong in the big 12 championship game today. Anyone from the state of Iowa would be embarrassed by today's performance 'clone fan or not. ISU has maybe been blown out in a game once or twice since Campbell's first year? Quite possibly Campbell's worst loss. If I was the other team playing whatever jag-off bowl game they play against isu, I'd be pumped. Easy win knowing we'll choke when all eyes are on us. Maybe Campbell's next hire should be a sports psychologist.

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I am hoping for Alamo against Colorado but expecting Pop Tarts against Miami with BYU going to Alamo.

We have already been to the Orlando bowl twice since the last Alamo trip. While the weather is nice, just about everything else about the Orlando bowl is not good.
 
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I'm still upset that we don't get credit for the conference title in 2020. Played everyone, finished first, but had to do that fake conference title game because of an extra "data point" that talking heads were pushing.
that is how Iowa won all of the Big 10 titles and a lot of them were co-champs. They never have won on with the CCG in place. And we had to go round robin to win ours, Iowa never had to and in most years skipped the team they tied it with.
 

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