If you could pick 1 guaranteed win...

[WooBadger18]

Iowa

There are other wins that are better, but there is no loss that’s worse than Iowa because of their fan base. If I can guarantee the win there, it’s going to make the rest of the season and year that much better.

 

[Cydkar]

Apparently @Cydkar doesn't have any hawkeye coworkers or family members. I'm surrounded by them. I don't want to just beat Iowa. I want to run up the score. I want their fans to feel despair. I want to see full cans of Swarm filling up dumpsters. I want vintage hawkeye football of the 60s & 70s.

If I could have 2 guaranteed wins, Kansas State would be my next pick. At least we got to host Snyder's retirement party. That was a good day.

Thanks for the tag. I've lived in Cedar Rapids for over 40 years. Try again...I'm just not soft.
Beating them once isn't going to change anything. It would be glorious, of course.

 

[CYCLNST8]

Thanks for the tag. I've lived in Cedar Rapids for over 40 years. Try again...I'm just not soft.
Beating them once isn't going to change anything. It would be glorious, of course.

Well congratulations on convincing yourself it doesn't matter. It's not a rivalry if you only win once every ten years.

 

[Cyforce]

I choose Brooklyn Decker.

 

[Cydkar]

Well congratulations on convincing yourself it doesn't matter. It's not a rivalry if you only win once every ten years.

Congrats on your lack of comprehension.

 

[awd4cy]

Any answer other than UTAH are people still stuck in the McCarney years.

Even if we beat Utah, we’d still manage to F the conference title up.

 

[PSYclone22]

North Dakota.

Can't go undefeated if we lose the first one.we lose that, it's an easy snowball into losing to Iowa, then to going 3-6 in Big 12 play.

 

[Cydkar]

North Dakota.

Can't go undefeated if we lose the first one.we lose that, it's an easy snowball into losing to Iowa, then to going 3-6 in Big 12 play.

That's not the question.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Iowa

**** them.

Nice to have the boost of the Big 12 perception over the Big Ten, too.

 

[Cardinal and Gold]

I'm going with Utah. May knock them out of contention and I think we have a better chance at beating KSU/KU twice or OSU once in the CCG. Plus would be a good feeling to be the ones to humble the Utes in their own house.

 

[Cloned4Life]

Iowa

Agree. Iowa, for me as well. It is extremely important that we beat them, just as it is extremely important for them to beat us.

 

[MushroomPinball]

I'll make the case for Iowa that doesn't involve them simply being a rival .Going forward the big 12 will be represented by the media as a lesser conference than the P2. It would be nice if the media wasn't biased but it is what it is. The only thing the big 12 teams can do about that right now is to win marquee non conference games. Since Iowa State only gets Iowa every year it's important for Iowa State to win this game to shove the perception problem up ESPN's ass. Hopefully the rest of the big 12 can win their games as well.

 

[g4ce]

Iowa. Not just because I have to live around them but because it makes our conference look better. We need every single one of our conference members to win their out of conference games. The more we win the stronger our conference looks.

 

[NickTheGreat]

This is the problem with the new Big 12. There's no big name program on the top of the mountain to knock off. Last year we'd have most all said Texa$.

We have no marquee team in Football in the Big 12.

 

[HFCS]

Utah.

I'd like to say it's because it will most help our chances for B12 CCG and CFP but really it's just because they're obviously the worst fans we'll face, maybe ever.

Iowa would be nice only because we have a losing streak, if we had beat them in the past couple years I wouldn't care as much.

 

[HFCS]

This is the problem with the new Big 12. There's no big name program on the top of the mountain to knock off. Last year we'd have most all said Texa$.

We have no marquee team in Football in the Big 12.

Read some Utah message boards or social media groups. You'll hate them worse than Texas within minutes, they're somehow MORE arrogant and condescending. It's actually worse than it seems and not just a few bad apples.

 

[ClonerJams]

Iowa just because we find the dumbest ways to lose to them.

 

[CyCrazy]

Read some Utah message boards or social media groups. You'll hate them worse than Texas within minutes, they're somehow MORE arrogant and condescending. It's actually worse than it seems and not just a few bad apples.

Ya I dont get why they think they are some superior super power. It is the new Texas. Its wierd.

 

[Farnsworth]

To not do this again....

 

[cydsho]

This year I would say Iowa. I think the conference is so open, I'm not sure I could nail down one conference team. So this year, get that out of conference rival game.