This probably won't be popular but ISU needs to drop the Iowa game

[GTO]

Drop Iowa? Quit being such a bunch of pu**ies!

 

[CycloneErik]

I don't see the Patriots dropping the Super Bowl. Why should we drop Iowa?



That's my gift for lurkers from Hawkeye country.

 

[Wesley]

Play Colorado.

 

[demoncore1031]

It sucks losing to Iowa, but I love the cy hawk game. It's the one day a year I get to see certain friends and it's a fun game to watch.

 

[trevn]

Not. Gonna. Happen.

 

[BigLame]

Well, Michigan just finished 1-1 opening the season against Utah & Oregon State - if I can recall, those are 2 PAC-12 teams. They follow that up with a game vs UNLV. While not a P5 still not an FCS school. All of the hype ahead of the Oregon-Michigan State game was wanting to be the best you play the best & have P5 matchups early in the season and not cupcakes.

If we want to be a P5 school & program we better start acting like it. Our poor coaching-staff situations (self-inflicted decision) and the near implosion of the Big-12 (out of our control issue) was a near perfect ****-storm against us - not really a program already in 'catch-up' mode needs dumped upon them but it is what it is. Suffering thru two of these storms in my life time (this and the decisions the admin made in the late 70's/early 80's) sucks in a lot of ways, but complaining about playing P5 teams outside the conference schedule is so much weak sauce it makes me want to **** myself. That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger - Cyclone For Life!!!

 

[alarson]

Logically, OP has a point. Other schools are able to schedule 3 creampuffs and have more home games due to not having an ongoing inter-conference rivalry.

However, the likelihood of the situation changing is minimal. Its the biggest drawing game of the year for both teams, and the biggest sporting event in the state of Iowa.

I would have been fine with a compromise solution that went home-off-away-off as well.

As far as the 'teams everywhere are going to have to play 10 p5 games soon'.. ok, but that still brings up another point.. thats other games we could be playing in that might add some variety. Maybe get Minnesota or Nebraska in there. Right now our schedule is pretty much identical every year- UNI, Iowa, the big 12, and some team from the MAC\CUSA\MWC\Sun Belt

 

[VeloClone]

ISU is .500 vs Iowa the last 20 years. What other team ISU plays can you say that about.

Just for ***** and giggles:

ISU .500 or better against opponent since 1995
(min 2 games)
Army…..2-0
Baylor...6-6
UConn...1-1
KU?..Nope..9-11
Minny..1-1
NDSU…1-1 :-(
NIU….…2-1
UNI…...8-2
Ohio…..4-0
Toledo..2-1
Tulsa….2-1
UNLV...4-1

That’s not a lot of teams with only one in conference and not the one everyone would expect.

 

[isulive2train]

In before outrageous thread title.

 

[MartyFine]

If we're not going to play anyone why not simply drop the program?

 

[CyCloned]

Where the heck do we get all these moronic posts. ISU was tied with Iowa with 2 minutes left in the game. Yes the wheels fell off at the end, but it isn't like Iowa was kicking ISU all over the field for 60 minutes. If we need to drop anyone it is UNI. That is an absolute no win game against a highly motivated team that is usually at the top of their division.

 

[Luth4Cy]

After the 2011 and 2012 wins I was hoping our 2013 team would make a bowl and begin the season by pounding Iowa into submission. I figured if we beat them by multiple scores a few years in a row they'd pull out of the series. Obviously that did not happen.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

This is a stupid thread. Just like Iowa fans should feel stupid when they make threads like this, you should feel stupid when making threads like this.

 

[NEICyFan]

Can we beat any of these more than Iowa?

Not really the issue, IMHO. I prefer to keep Iowa but I think in the next 10 years or so the series will change from an every year event. I bought those schools up because they would give us exposure in areas where we do/will/should recruit. They also have the benefit of being a P5 and in reasonable driving distance for our fans.

 

[kingcy]

Not really the issue, IMHO. I prefer to keep Iowa but I think in the next 10 years or so the series will change from an every year event. I bought those schools up because they would give us exposure in areas where we do/will/should recruit. They also have the benefit of being a P5 and in reasonable driving distance for our fans.

10 years from now the landscape have changed again. They could be in the same conference or region or division

 

[SenorCy]

Very few schools play 10 power 5 opponents a year. For a coaching staff trying to build a program that is a steep hill to climb.

I know it is a rivalry and sells out the stadium but going to bowl games consistently would do more for the program.

If you need to drop a P5 school that you have beat three out of the last five years and is a rival no less, and replace them with a cupcake just to get to six wins, there are much bigger problems with your program than the schedule.

 

[Knownothing]

Dumbest idea ever. Guarenteed a sell out. Brings money to the area. We win 50 percent of them which is better than we do against fcs schools. Its always a great game. Plus they allow us to wear jerseys at work the friday before and we have a killer food day.

 

[CyFan61]

Almost every team in the B1G, Pac-12, ACC, and Big 12 will be playing 10 games against Power 5 opponents in the very near future, so... well, you're just wrong

 

[ISUcyclones11]

I would prefer if all 12 games were P5 games at every school (unless there's a rivalry). I don't see how playing Purdue or Vanderbilt would be any more difficult than the top FCS program every other year and a really good FCS program on odd years. Our other non-P5 opponent this year is favored by a touchdown.

I'd rather play Vanderbilt than any non-P5 we have scheduled in the next few years.

Here's the OOC schedule for the next several seasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_State_Cyclones_football

 

[nickcyv]

Who are we going to schedule that is worse than Iowa? We lose to the UNI's and Kent States of the world as often as Iowa.