John Walters just posted this on Twitter. If they aren't watching us, it's because they've chosen not to. All the more reason to strip them of their voting.
ISU unranked in AP poll
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They are the SEC'e state run media outlet.
They actively tried to kill the B12.
Never forget.
Everyone in the B12 needs to know that ESPN is the enemy.
They are the SEC'e state run media outlet.
They actively tried to kill the B12.
Never forget.
My freshman year late 90s I would listen to road games while doing homework because totally normal for a Big 12 game to have no TV at all. It was like the last choice wasn't on TV and before we turned it around that was often us.
I just heard this morning that Franklin is 4-21 against the top ten at Penn State for a comparison.
You mean like 3 out of the last 4 against Iowa and Miami in the Pop Tarts Bowl?
I remember early 2000s having to follow scores online if I couldn’t listen to the game. Whenever there was a long gap between updates it was usually a bad sign. Like “catch by ISU receiver, fumble, recovered by defense, returned for a touchdown “
oh yeah definitely PTSD memory on those
When I moved out of state in 2003 I actually paid $5 a month for a few years to get the radio broadcasts online, it was through Yahoo for just a handful of years and I think that might've been how Cuban got rich selling those broadcast rights.
Fun fact and maybe someone has already made the point in the past 28 pages of rage. If so I apologize. ISU has more points (830) now than they have had all year in the poll. They had 820 when ranked 12th two weeks ago. They gained 51 points from last week which was about 1 point per voter (66 voters). In looking at the results from Saturday it was pretty easy to see we wouldn't be moving up.
Nobody gave Iowa State a shot at beating Miami with or without Cam Ward. Then they said only reason ISU won was Cam Ward didn't play in the second half.
They can't win.
If it was my poll I might have had us at 14-16 the entire season and only thought about moving them up from such a convincing win over AZ. I think it was super dumb KSU was ever ranked in front of ISU to begin with. ASU and maybe Tech are the only teams that ever had some kind of rational reason to be ranked higher than ISU going into the year. ASU on last year and bringing back QB, Tech on the limitless infusion of money/talent.
What is the reason for KSU to have ever been above ISU or for that matter above Tech, BYU, TCU, ASU, Utah and Baylor? It can't be the QB because ISU's QB is/was clearly better.
It's a start, but critics could argue Iowa has been down the last few years and, as I said, the non-playoff bowls have lost their luster with so much emphasis on the playoff. More players are opting out decreasing the bowls' credibility as yardsticks of the strength of conferences. As I said, P2 schools have automatic credibility for the reasons I listed. In today's world, it will likely take a playoff win or a win against a Top 5 non-conference opponent to change the narrative.
If I went home for the weekend I would listen to a Missouri AM station because no southeastern Iowa stations carried them.
There was one year I was back in Sioux City for weekend from college and none of the Iowa cable companies carried our Big 12 game so I drove across the river over to South Sioux to watch the game at a hotel bar in Nebraska. Younger fans will never understand how atrocious our TV situation was...this was like 2001, not the 60s or something.
Yeah, it's tough. On one hand, I don't want to give ESPN more page views for its leadership's part in building up the SEC / BIG (but particularly the SEC). On the other hand, I have to believe the powers that be at ESPN still like a good story and respond to clicks / views. Thus, more people clicking on ISU stories, theoretically, then the more they will focus on us.
I will say I like to give Heartland College Sports clicks. I've just discovered them and they cover Big 12 and are doing a good job pumping out content: https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/.
Also, this reporter just finally moved ISU into his "Power Rankings" this week at 24: https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...o-top-five-lsu-plummets-amid-massive-shakeup/
Just crazy ISU gets that little respect. The columnist puts us behind 4-1 Tennessee, 4-1 Michigan, 2-2 Notre Dame, 4-1 Arizona State..... sigh. Ridiculous.
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85% of it, ISU's top two receivers were drafted, lowly Iowa State can't possibly have returning (and added) contributors who are "that good," enough to remain a top contender for the Big 12 title.
Probably the only one who isn't jerking himself off to a Notre Dame logo at night?
