If Iowa State lost to TCU and OU, then beat TTU, KU, BU and were sitting at 3-2 and ranked, Iowa fans would be howling at us saying we haven't beaten anyone. And then if our next two games were against the likes of another TTU and BU, they'd be hammering us for our schedule and our 5-2 record being a joke.
The proof is in the pudding.
The SOS metric that is universally accepted around here by ISU fans has Iowa playing a much tougher schedule than ISU to this point.