Iowa excuses if/when they lose
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They forfeited vs the best ISU team ever (so far at least).
- Petras was playing his first road game with fans
-Charlie Jones didn't play
-LaPorta was only 98% healthy
-Charlie Jones didn't play
-LaPorta was only 98% healthy
I saw his first game with zero fans, it couldn't be much worse with fans.
They'd have ran the table in their shortened B10W-Ohio-State-Iowa-State-free season if they had an average QB last year.
The standard "your super bowl" mantra thing will come out, for sure.
As if both teams don't want to win this game.
As if both teams don't want to win this game.
Can we just win first before these threads?
This is the one I think they will go with. It's funny too considering they played an actual conference game against a ranked opponent and won handedly and we played a MVC team and squeaked it out.
I prefer we just win by a large enough margin that no excuse holds any water. Just a good old fashioned curb stomping with zero question of who the better team was.
I am expecting to hear this a ton, even though the last time we won was a 2-10 team beating their 8 win team in Kinnick.
The 'Super Bowl' thing will certainly be ringing loud and clear.
Some how, some way, the narrative that ISU only plays well vs. Iowa will be there despite even recent seasons proving that as a fallacy.
Others:
-grass field.
-played a conference game last week and the B1G 'beats each other up'.
-something about realignment. How that would be an excuse is beyond me, but they'll find a way.
Some how, some way, the narrative that ISU only plays well vs. Iowa will be there despite even recent seasons proving that as a fallacy.
Others:
-grass field.
-played a conference game last week and the B1G 'beats each other up'.
-something about realignment. How that would be an excuse is beyond me, but they'll find a way.
It's the 20th anniversary of the year we actually did play the game at the end of the year.
The program and coach that always improves somehow still lost to ISU even though they finally got their dream of playing it at the end of the year.
I mean I get that it's a thing, ISU under Campbell seems to always be way better in Oct/Nov than Sept. The crazy thing is that Iowa fans really believe other teams don't improve, only they do.
The superbowl thing is also so great with ISU coming off Big 12 Championship game and Fiesta Bowl win. I mean that was 8 months ago. Short of the CFP championship game that's as close to "superbowl" as possible in college football.
I'm pretty convinced that ISU could literally hold up the National Championship trophy going through Alabama and Ohio State in the 4 team playoff...and 8 months later Iowa fans and players would be trotting out the Superbowl thing.
Slight hijack: A close loss is a win-win for either team… if the narrative is that “this isn’t even the most important game of the year.”
If you win, great. You just beat a top 10 team. You should surge ahead in the rankings.
If ISU loses closely: well we have a quality loss against a top 10 opponent. We can still run the table in Big 12 and play for a conference title.
If Iowa loses closely: well we have a quality loss against a top 10 opponent. We can still run the table in Big 10 and play for a conference title.
Am I wrong to say that the stakes have never been higher, yet a close loss (while painful) wouldn’t be a be-all, end-all for either team?
Don’t get me wrong. I want to crush those turds. This is just a rationalization that I think is fair for either side once the final whistle blows Saturday.
If you win, great. You just beat a top 10 team. You should surge ahead in the rankings.
If ISU loses closely: well we have a quality loss against a top 10 opponent. We can still run the table in Big 12 and play for a conference title.
If Iowa loses closely: well we have a quality loss against a top 10 opponent. We can still run the table in Big 10 and play for a conference title.
Am I wrong to say that the stakes have never been higher, yet a close loss (while painful) wouldn’t be a be-all, end-all for either team?
Don’t get me wrong. I want to crush those turds. This is just a rationalization that I think is fair for either side once the final whistle blows Saturday.
I had this exact convo with a colleague yesterday, posted about it in another thread. He said whoever loses it really wrecks their season. I was like, dude, the loser can still play for a shot at their CCG, wtf are you talking about? He hadn't even thought about that, just assumed if ISU loses then they must suck, and if Iowa loses they must suck because ISU sucks. He's actually smart about football, but just is locked in the late 80s early 90s paradigm wrt ISU.
Still traumatized by how badly our band was treated
Worried that an ISU fan would break in and steal all their stuff during the game
Worried that an ISU fan would break in and steal all their stuff during the game
Man, I remember the aftermath of 2019 when many Hawk fans were basically saying, “We escaped that one. You guys had our number.” We will find out if the tide turns this year.
This is very much a prove it type of game for ISU, especially in the minds of Hawk fans. I think they’re predisposed to hold ISU down and assume we are glorified UNI. We know we are rising; they don’t want to believe it.
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