Have your season expectations changed with the 0-2 start?
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The sdsu game is going to be made up anyway and will be a guaranteed win. It's one of those years where the season appears to have opened with IMO the two toughest opponents of the year. Both losses were hard-fought affairs in which isu definitely belonged on the field, so 0-2 changes very little unless of course the expectation going in was 11-1 or 12-0.
TCU did look fearsome for a while as threw everything and the kitchen sink at osu, and is a possible loss (but with the D playing as it is not unreasonable to view it a 50-50 matchup). Other than tcu, every other team is worse than ISU. Just have to keep the on field performance at current levels and it's realistic to go 9-3 or 10-2. Despite the record, this is the best isu team i've seen to date.
TCU did look fearsome for a while as threw everything and the kitchen sink at osu, and is a possible loss (but with the D playing as it is not unreasonable to view it a 50-50 matchup). Other than tcu, every other team is worse than ISU. Just have to keep the on field performance at current levels and it's realistic to go 9-3 or 10-2. Despite the record, this is the best isu team i've seen to date.
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I was blown away by Murray after the ISU and UCLA games. Obviously he is a great runner and outstanding at running the zone read. He's a better thrower than Grier, better deep ball and more accurate on the intermediate stuff. Plus Grier forces some bad throws.
That was the best offense ISU's going to face this regular season. While OU is not a great defense, so far this year they look to be quite a bit better than last year. I am confident that no one beats them this year until the playoff without being +2 in TOs.
So far OU and TCU have each been a bit better than I thought. OSU probably too, but that Boise St. game had a ton of things go their way that you probably can't ever count on to that extent again against a good team. I thought Baylor would be better and KU worse. TTU is about what I figured, have some huge scores, give up plenty of points, look really good at times, then get set up for the late Oct/November fold.
Game 1 vs. a good team playing game #2 is going to unpredictable at best, a mess at worst. Penn St. was lucky to beat a Sun Belt team in OT in week 1, and since hasn't looked like close to the same team. There are plenty of things to chalk the Iowa loss to - first game rust, bad matchup, not playing your best 5 OL, etc. No matter, I don't think that's a very good representation of how good ISU is.
I thought 7-5 at the start, and I still think that's the case. IW, Akron, KU, Baylor, TTech are wins. TCU a loss. Split KSU, WVU, OSU and Texas.
