Cyclones ranked No. 7 in 247Sports’ first 2021 rankings
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Jack. Trice. Is. Going. To. Be. So. Lit.
Other notables: a$m and ND tied at #8, Iowa #15. So awesome to see. That match-up next year w Hawks will be insanely fun
Really...?
I am constantly informed in the ISR threads (from both sides) that there's really nothing interesting about that game when you think about it and we could find more interesting and higher-quality opponents super easily.
"Not." -Borat
Well
It is very interesting, because of the in-state rivalry.
It is NOT the most important game. Every conference game is the most important since we first have to win the conference to get to the CFP.
But because we aren't a blue-blood and don't have a conference that manipulates schedules to protect the potential CFP qualifier, we have to win every game so it will be much more important than it has been.
We could find higher quality opponent and that might be good for a news story but probably not for state economy.
Beating to be what is likely to be a very good Hawkeyes team will be a feather in our caps and one for the Big 12 over the Big Ten, too, both of which are going to be extremely valuable come committee time.
I agree that early losses are "better" than late ones and the focus should be on winning the Big 12, but think about it this way instead -- the Big 12 is just too brutal to expect to go 9-0. Even 8-1 is a tall mountain, and at both of those records you still have to defeat what will be an excellent Oklahoma team at least once in Arlington.
We need to beat Iowa... because it preserves our mulligan in the Big 12... because we'll likely need it if we are going to seriously make a push towards the college football playoff.
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We might agree To me the wish list is
1) Go 9-0 in Conference
2) Win CCG
3) Beat Iowa
I will go into the fall obsessed with doing all 3!
CCG > 9-0 > Iowa
We already won a phantom Big 12 regular season title. We need to bring home the hardware from Arlington next.
We do CCG and then 1/2 of the other two, and we're 12-1 with a Big 12 title... likely playoff. That assumes no other screwups, but if we're 12-1 with our only loss to a good Iowa or good Big 12 team, we're in fine shape.
And crazy as it seems, these are all reasonable expectations for this team.
The off-season is gonna be brutally long, but man it feels good to be optimistic about football during that time.
I hope to God this pandemic is under control by Fall. Hell, the atmosphere at any large sporting event/concert is going to be off the charts.
These are the guys who think army had an impressive win in their bowl game.
