When you are squeaking out come from behind wins at home against Drake and Kansas State, I think it is fair to question how good Iowa State was. The vast majority of computer metrics/rankings have Iowa substantially higher than Iowa State this season.
Also, LOL at Iowa and Iowa State being amazingly close in talent. That wasn’t true this season and hasn’t been true in quite some time, although it was closer this year than it has been over the past decade, and will probably be even closer next season with all the juniors Iowa had declare for the NFL Draft.