You beat over ranked ISU and Indiana that season, you are trying to have it both ways here, saying ISU does not get credit for beating a ranked KSU team, but then turning around and taking credit for beating two similar teams that were over ranked in the preseason polls that year.
Exactly my point, but we still have people thinking that the B12 is going to get two teams into the playoff if the records are close. The powers that be and the strength behind those conferences only care about their conference, and are never going to help the B12, the last thing they want to see is the conference be successful.
Not really. I don't think it should be considered a ranked win unless the team you beat maintains a rankinig and finishes ranked. I don't count any of those 2021 Ws for Iowa as ranked wins.
Don’t you know the Hawks are in the CFP hunt after their big wins over U. Mass and Rutgers?
Hard to disagree with you there. My opinion is that if a team is ranked when they play, that’s a ranked win. After the season you can call it out for being fraudulent like KSU and all of iowas since 2019. Iowa should get credit for beating a top 10 ISU team in Ames and ISU should get credit for beating a top 25 KSU team in Ireland
That's cool. I'd have a hard time calling a week 0 win over a now 1-3 KSU team a ranked win but to each his own.
Good question. They're notoriously bad, especially when ranking 10-25. Really bad.
It’s why preseason rankings are garbage lol. My biggest gripe is how SEC homers will switch the narrative so it favors their resume and then flip it to hurt another conference’s team.
I'm really not trolling. I've been pretty clear, if the team you beat is no longer ranked and/or doesn't finish the season ranked, I wouldn't count it as a ranked win. I mean, yes it was what everyone on here said about Iowa's wins over PSU and others who were ranked at the time. But it's a position I also agree with. I'm just calling out the inconsistency of opinions.I think the accepted practice is to use the result of the game at the time as to whether a win or loss occured against a ranked team. That is why Nebraska is cited as having lost 28 straight games to ranked teams. No one goes back at the end of the year and adjusts these results based on final rankings.
I can tell @Gonzo is basing his position on some point in the past that this board probably discounted an Iowa victory because the team they beat ended up sucking and unranked. He is just trolling us. And he is probably correct that posters here moved the goalposts against an Iowa achievement. But that is our right to present the hokroaches in the worst possible light.
