Iowa is probably LAST on my list. Losing @ Iowa is a good loss, with no bearing on big 12 champ and playoffs.
Utah is the answer.
Utah is the answer.
If you could pick 1 guaranteed win...
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I think just wanting to beat a new-comer to the league is more little brother than wanting to win the National Championship game which was my answer.
Any ISU fan that doesn’t say Iowa is either lying or they don’t live in Iowa.
or they want ISU to win a B12 championship...
Seriously though, if it is a guaranteed win for this year and this year only, then its Utah. If its forever, then its Iowa
Do you live in Iowa? If so…. you’re lying.
I get people not wanting to give Iowa fans the satisfaction of us wanting to beat them more than anyone…. but deep down you know you want to beat these a-holes more than anyone.
If we had been beating them fairly often recently I could see it…. but CMC has sucked bad against them and it gets really old.
It would probably be Iowa this year for me. ISU hasn't beat Iowa in a while, it's at Iowa, and there are fewer big dogs (not really any) on the schedule anymore in OU or UT to make up some good will and boost our rankings. Utah or K State or someone else may end up being more important, but as we sit right now, winning at Iowa seems most important for ISU this year.
Also for the credibility of the conference, I hope ISU beats UI, WVU beats Pitt and Penn State (you've got two good opportunities at big non-con wins!) Houston wins at Oklahoma, Okie State beats Arkansas, Kansas beats Illinois, and ASU beats Mississippi State at home. Those appear to be the biggest games I see for the conference after a quick look at the noncon. Maybe throw CU winning at NU on there, but we know NU's not great lately. Still, it would be a road win over a BIG opponent. Not a lot of great opportunities at resume builders beyond those, so hopefully the conference can win these games to set us up for getting two into the CFP and building more respect to carry through the whole remainder of the year.
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Oh I hate them. But I also hate K-state and Kansas and TCU and . . .
But on a National Stage, it'll be interesting to see who's on top of the mountain.
We’re capable of beating everyone in the current Big XII every year on our own. Don’t need the guarantee.
Even the one year we won, it seemed like we did everything possible to lose outside of one great drive. They just did even more.
I guess I'm not sure how people come to this conclusion.
ISU's had their chances to beat them, but it's not like ISU has gone on to do much of anything to really show that they were better. Please don't bring up the '20* season as proof.
Anyway, this year give me Kansas or Utah.
Except that the OP said “regular season”.I think just wanting to beat a new-comer to the league is more little brother than wanting to win the National Championship game which was my answer.
Yeah, this would probably be the best argument for Iowa.
It doesn't help our standings, but there's a bigger picture at play.
And conversely, if we were to lose to Iowa and do great in the big 12 it would likely be held against the conference. Given Iowa is likely to be the 5th best team at best in the big 10, if we were to win the conference the media would be all like "The big 12's best team lost to a team that was nowhere near the big 10's best. That just shows you how much tougher the big 10 is"
If saddens me how many fans do not understand how critical the Iowa game is every year.
And yeah, fans are reminded 50+ times per day what "conference" we play in...
Basketball K State rules all while that psycho is coaching them. I even found myself just watching all their other Big 12 games and enjoying them lose.
For fball I kind of feel like we extinguished a bit of the KSU demons down there last year in the snow.
