Future non conference opponents question.

[Grayhair1981]

I swear to God most of you could give a **** about Iowa Football. You want to complain about schedules? Look at Penn State, Nebraska, Indiana, Texas Tech and others. Iowa schedules similar to most other power 5 schools.

Some B1G teams' future opponents
OSU: home-and-homes with Bama and Georgia
Mich: Texas and ND
MSU: ND
Minn: Bama in 32 and 33
Illinois: 6 game series with Mizzou
Nebraska: Arizona, OK, ND
USC: ND
Washington: Tennessee

But you are right: none of those are as intriguing as UMass, Albany, and Clown College.

 

[KuwaitHawk]

Big Ten and SEC should not be scheduling FCS teams.

ESPECIALLY for game #11.

 

[KuwaitHawk]

What is a preseason game that some are mentioning. College football is not like the NFL, there are no preseason games, just NON-CONFERENCE games.

 

[airhawk]

Iowa is 32-17 against ISU since the series resumed 49 years ago

Who is this Robinson you speak of? Eddie?

 

[airhawk]

Like it or not I don't think we can count on a win against Iowa State every season based on what I watched Saturday night. Robinson flat outcoached us that first half and his team looked well prepared. He will have to tone things down with the bush league stuff and I suspect that will come. If he can recruit and attract players we will have some very competitive battles with them.

Robinson?

 

[7and5baby]

With ISU every year, I'm fine with an FCS each year. We need to be undefeated heading into conference play each year which probably allows us 2 losses and still a playoff birth.

There are MANY FCS schools 'ranked' ahead of FBS teams. I think Sagarin is one-such metric (that groups FBS & FCS together). In fact, I recall a few years ago one of the Dakota Schools (I think the one that beat us), ended up ranked like 22 in the final ratings, so ahead of MOST FBS teams.

 

[hawkeyemark18]

In response to Airhawk I changed my previous two posts from Robinson to Rogers. Senior moment Also I had no familiarity with Jimmy Rogers until he took the Iowa State job. I think he will do well there if he plays his cards right. I also found it interesting that he and Kirk had a friendly exchange after the game. Kirk seemed to take the behavior of his players in stride. I doubt that we will see that thuggish play moving forward.

 

[Fight4Iowa]

Like it or not I don't think we can count on a win against Iowa State every season based on what I watched Saturday night. Rogers flat outcoached us that first half and his team looked well prepared. He will have to tone things down with the bush league stuff and I suspect that will come. If he can recruit and attract players we will have some very competitive battles with them.

I'd be fine with 3 of every 4 against Iowa State.