Ok, enough is enough...
Quit crying. Quit your jealousy. I'm sorry you can't ever win and won't ever win.
And I'm going to let you in on a secret...
You won't ever win and haven't ever won because you don't have talent. Not because your schedule is so tough. Your schedule is so tough because you don't have to play yourself every year. Crappy teams have tough schedules because they replace a game with a crappy team with a game against a good team, since they can't play themselves. For example, Oklahoma would likely play a weaker schedule than Iowa State because in one of the games on their schedule, Oklahoma plays Iowa State, while Iowa State plays Oklahoma.
Here's the thing...
Iowa is better than Iowa State darn near every year because, well.... Iowa has better players. Sorry, it's true. And your jealousy of Iowa is pathetic. This constant nonsense about the Big-10 is a joke. You guys have an inferiority complex, and threads like this only prove my point.
Is the Big-10 weak this year? Is water wet? I don't think anyone in their right mind could argue otherwise. Is Iowa going to take advantage of that? I hope so. We will know as the season progresses.
Would ISU fare better over the past decade in the Big-10 than Big-12? No. Sorry, but you wouldn't have. A bad team is a bad team. Conference strength doesn't change that. The Big-12 North has been horrible for a decade and ISU still couldn't manage to find their way into the conference championship game once. You had 4-5 easy conference games every year, 3 weak OOC opponents, and the best you could do was 7 wins in any of those years. So what makes you think joining the Big-10 would have changed anything? If your argument is "well, the Big-10 has tons of bad teams", here's my rebuttal.... the Big-12 also has bad teams AND ISU has consistently lost to MANY of those (i.e. Baylor, Okie State and Mizzou before they got good, Kansas, etc.). You are only a toss-up against most bad teams. So how does joining an alleged weaker conference make your record any better?
As for this year...
The Big-12 isn't any good either. You have 2 great teams in the conference (OU, Okie State) and the rest is nothing special, mostly mediocre. Wow, congrats on having so many ranked teams. Too bad most of them are actually lousy. Texas is horrible. And that's an understatement. Iowa would beat Texas by 17........in Austin. K-State is terrible. Baylor is a 1-man team. A&M is pretty good, but they are basically this year's version of 2010 Iowa - a bunch of chokers. Who else is ANY good? Mizzou? I laughed. Taco Tech? lol? Kansas? haha! Iowa State? Never have been.
You have 2 games against great teams in a 12 game schedule and you're whining about the schedule? This is why you are, and always will be Iowa State.
Now, ISU did beat Iowa on the field. And they were most certainly better on that day. Is ISU the better team? No. But they're close enough in talent to beat Iowa at home in a rivalry game the 2nd week of the season. You won a game by 3 points in 3 OT's at home the 2nd week of the year. Iowa will end up winning more games than Iowa State.... many more games. Not because of the schedule. Because they have a lot more upside than Iowa State due to a boatload more talent. And because of that upside, Iowa will improve as the season progresses, while ISU will remain the same mediocre team they were when the 2 teams faced. You have no upside. You have no hope for the future. You will never be good. You could join ANY conference and you would still be a bottom feeder. Why? Because you have no talent. You have no potential to recruit decent players or good enough coaching staffs to stay for the long-haul. You never send anyone to the NFL. Iowa does...consistently.
I know this is going to p*ss you guys off, but the fact remains...it's all true. And you cannot dispute it.
Iowa traditionally improves throughout the season more than ISU because they have more talent. Not because the schedule is weaker. I mean, I know that Big-12 North was always sooooo difficult. Wow, K-State, Kansas, Colorado, Mizzou......ooooooeeeeeeyyyy!! MEATGRINDER!!!
Look at the NFL and compare Iowa and ISU's talent. Where are your draft picks? Where are your impact NFL players? Iowa's got tons of them. And if you don't think having NFL talent matters in college, you're a moron. Go look at the teams that contend for national titles and tell me how many of them don't have rosters full of NFL caliber players. You never have any, and that's why you never win. Your quarterback is terrible and fluked his way to success in 1 game. And what a shock....it just so happened to be against Iowa. Kind of like Brett Culbertson making probably the only 5 kicks he made in his career.....against Iowa. Amazing how that happens, hu?
Enjoy your annual 4-8 records and continued jealousy of Iowa. I'll just continue to enjoy not being Iowa State. Keep up that inferiority complex/loser mentality. That's why you are and always will be Iowa State. Sucks to be you.