You definitely don’t see May in April. These feel like a lightning strike. It sucks.Every program gets crappy season ending injuries to starters. Some just have more depth to deal with it.
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I'm thinking it's actually CyTown. Once they started building it, we've had some bad stretch of luck. Maybe construction disturbed the burial ground.
There are more teams and a lot of those teams are mediocre or bad. And you don't have to play OU. With the unbalanced schedules, there are just more games that are tossups. The Big 12 is a fine league, especially for Iowa State, but it's definitely not what it used to be.
Yeah, sounds good in theory until you're down 24-3 at Kinnick and this board is calling for the coach's head. There's a significant part of the fanbase that's unfamiliar with no expectations.
LOL @ the thinking Iowa will score 24 points
I still have flashbacks to 42-3. Woof, that team was so bad at that time in the season.
To be fair, a long term reversion back to the Iowa State football of old would be a catastrophic failure. No expectations is fine for one year, but not five
I think it's a realistic hope going into the season, but hard to see even 7-5.
My 30 second breakdown.
Wins: SE Missouri and BG
Losses: @iowa, @BYU, @Arizona, Utah
Can they go 4-2 in other 6 games???
4 of the 6 are also over/under 5.5, with 3 of those at home (WV, OSU, Cincy, @ UCF)
@Baylor 6.5
KSU 7.5
My heart says 6-6. My brain says my heart is still relying too much on the recent program history. I think they lose a game or two that feel right now like they should be wins. I'd probably bet the under and go with 5-7.
Can someone explain to me why we are penciling Iowa in as an L already? This TOE team especially doesn't scare me in the slightest
There is just way too much unknown with our team to try to mark W's and L's. We could go 4-8 or 8-4 and neither would surprise me.
Cheezdyk beat Iowa year one. Not going down that road again.
Fair point. The benefit ISU has is there are unknowns for 80% of their schedule
They know exactly who they are, ISU will still be feeling it out.
Do they though? Defense will have a lot of question marks, and their QB and OL situation got significantly worse.
Im not saying ISU will have it figured out either, but it seems aggressive to assume TOE will
Why anyone is trying to figure out the record before we actually know who is going to take the field is beyond me. We don't know and many of the others don't either for their own squads. At least several of our staff has been through this before.
A team showing growth that’s also competitive is what will satisfy me this year.
Exact win loss record is less important, so long as it’s at least 4-5 wins.
Exact win loss record is less important, so long as it’s at least 4-5 wins.
I'll go with 4-8, portal was not kind.
