Rankings Drop?
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Okay on us, but Iowa 5? Wow. They have a great defense, but you would think they will play much better executing offenses than what ours is right now. But what they've done the first two weeks beating two ranked teams convincingly, I guess they deserve it. That's what we would say if it were us anyway. Besides, who you going to rank? Clemson already lost, A&M only won 10-7 vs. unranked Colorado, and Ohio State bit the dust. As hard as it is to swallow, I'm glad at least that there isn't 4 Alabama types at the top every year.
How could anyone watch that and say we were the better team?
Iowa to 5 to is insane to me. Offensively haven’t seen anything that’s impressed me and they’ve really been gifted both their wins. But the only ranking that matters is the last one
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This is exactly what I was afraid of and mentioned before our game yesterday.
Iowa wins and they will be a "fools gold" Top 5 team with 2 easy games in front of them. They just keep getting turnovers.
I would argue Iowa is worse offensively than isu (which is hard to do), and defensively not as good. They just force turnovers. Iowa state has outstanding defense, just doesn't force TO's.
Iowa wins and they will be a "fools gold" Top 5 team with 2 easy games in front of them. They just keep getting turnovers.
I would argue Iowa is worse offensively than isu (which is hard to do), and defensively not as good. They just force turnovers. Iowa state has outstanding defense, just doesn't force TO's.
They will get embarrassed. Probably a couple times.
For those at home. How were the announcers to ISU? Fair? Hard on us? Positive? What angle did we get from them? Sometimes that feeds into the rankings.
FWIW, latest Palm projection still has ISU in the Shoog-uh Bowl (Iowa — Fiesta).
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College football bowl projections: Oregon ousts Ohio State for playoff spot, UCLA and Iowa in New Year's Six
Jerry Palm's College Football Playoff projection has changed twice in as many weeks
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They were fine and fair as far as I remember.
- Jan 26, 2019
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We should not be 14. Rankings should have nothing to do with last year and only on this year. We don't deserve to be ranked right now and Iowa deserves to be 5th. I still believe we can turn this into a 2002 Iowa year and be ranked high at the end of the year but we don't deserve anything right now
If ISU is not worthy of being ranked then iowa should be nowhere near the top 10.
I figured we'd drop to #18 or #19.
After thinking about it, #14 seems fair after what down across the country yesterday.
After thinking about it, #14 seems fair after what down across the country yesterday.
A good year to have an average team. Very few teams are really good this year.
Iowa is not worthy of #5. ISU is not worthy of #14. Yet. But, after victories over UNLV, Baylor, and KU, the voters will be impressed.
Iowa is not worthy of #5. ISU is not worthy of #14. Yet. But, after victories over UNLV, Baylor, and KU, the voters will be impressed.
Maybe should have said that like 3 weeks ago.
SP+ has Iowa at #15 (#2 defense, #63 offense, #11 special teams). Last week they were at #12 (#1/#51/#13) so they dropped 3 spots in the victory.
ISU is at #18 (#22/#18/#119), moving up one spot from #19 (#27/#16/#73) after last week.
The SP+ rankings come from opponent-adjusted play-by-play data. It rewards teams for playing well against good opponents and punishes teams for playing poorly against bad opponents. It also tries to normalize "luck," whether good or bad, to be better at predicting outcomes (it had Iowa by 2, 26-24, so before the TOs I'd say it was pretty dialed in). Before the UNI game they had us at #7 (#22/#7/N/A).
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ISU is at #18 (#22/#18/#119), moving up one spot from #19 (#27/#16/#73) after last week.
The SP+ rankings come from opponent-adjusted play-by-play data. It rewards teams for playing well against good opponents and punishes teams for playing poorly against bad opponents. It also tries to normalize "luck," whether good or bad, to be better at predicting outcomes (it had Iowa by 2, 26-24, so before the TOs I'd say it was pretty dialed in). Before the UNI game they had us at #7 (#22/#7/N/A).
College football SP+ rankings after Week 2
After Week 2, it's all about the SEC West and the Big Ten East at the top of the SP+ rankings.
