Play a team from another conference that finished in the same place you did. For example, If you're the #8 SEC team, you play the #8 P12 team to kickoff the season the following year. (Rotate the conferences that play each other each year, also, so you would play a team from each conference every five years.) That should make for some lively #1 vs. #1 conference matchups every year.
Dear Florida: Jamie Pollard is savage
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After reading through the twitter responses, I'm totally ready for Pollard to schedule Florida to a home and home.
Might be unpopular with some, but I'm in favor of schedule Iowa H&H for 2 years and then 2 years off. In the 2 years off, schedule UNI to keep an instate game that sells tickets. We could also then schedule more interesting Power5 schools, lets start with Florida.
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Why not play Florida AND Iowa? I have no issue with that.
Not sure why they are playing two FCS schools and definitely not kosher. That being said, their other two OOC opponents are Miami (Fla.) @ Orlando (W) and Florida State, so that kind of evens out + they do have to play Auburn (W), @ LSU (L) and Georgia @ Jax in SEC play, and if they win the East, they will have to play LSU (again), Alabama or Auburn (again) @ Atlanta. So, the Gators will be tested! Compare that to say Oklahoma who plays...Texas @ Dallas (W), Iowa State and @ Baylor as their top 3 toughest teams.
Yeah, and the Hok fans who attend (they’re the ones sport’n black and gold from head to toe) will bring their knock-off Gator chomp. Home field advantage, baby!
You don’t want your schedule too tough. Remember 2002 with Seneca? That was one of the toughest schedules I have ever seen and ISU ran out of gas by the end.
From some of the Twitter replies by Florida fans you would thing that the Mcelwain era was a tremendous success for them, and they in no way had any down years.
That was due to conference games, which ISU had no control over. Four road games against top-20 teams in a 5-week span.
The Big Xii was much tougher in 2002 than it is now. For goodness sake, ISU has been favored in EVERY Big Xii Game so far in 2019! lol. Adding Florida would make it more interesting. Plus, if adding home and home with Florida would be too tough, Jamie would be better off keeping his mouth / fingers shut.
Also Florida State neutral and at Iowa
Also UCONN when they were decent with an NFL QB Dan Orlovsky. That schedule was rough
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Iowa is also not an "optional" opponent. FSU, Tennessee Tech, Troy State, and UConn were the 4 variables in that schedule.
6-1, then at #2, at #7, home, at #12, at #17. That's what made that schedule so tough.
When we scheduled UConn they were barely FBS- 2002 was their first season.
One of the many times we've tried to schedule an easier game and by the time we got it we got ******.
13 regular season games didn't help but that team was a house of cards anyway. Most ISU teams were with the lack of depth.
Off the top of my head we have faced Carson Wentz, David Johnson, Dan Orlovsky, and Julian Edelman for our “easy” opponents.
Utah was ****** when scheduled them too. Well they came to Ames and pushed our **** in.
At some point we will need to schedule a game like Florida to raise our name on a national level. Maybe schedule now for 4 or 5 years from now and hope CMC is still here and continues to raise the program to higher levels.
