Some coach voted Iowa #1
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Isn’t that what they should base the votes on? Am I missing something? These aren’t power rankings. Wins and losses have to count for almost everything.
I’m not saying Iowa is better than (insert team in top ten), but Texas A&M and Oregon are the only teams with better wins than us.
This paper tiger knocked your QB out of the game with a clean hit -that 's what happens when you take on a 6'5" 243 Lb all american LB and lose
The answer was named Jack Campbell 6'5" 243 junior LB and will be 1st team B1G Ten if not all American
Ketchup and Mustard shows up just in time for another injury timeout for Penn State.
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He’ll make all of you feel better about your lives in Pennsylvania!
Yes, in the Coaches Poll. That's why they call it the Coaches poll.....
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I believe if Clifford does not get hurt and plays the whole game that PSU would have won by 2 TD's. And with the hostile crowd impacting the game in Iowa's favor at that.
And on a neutral field I believe PSU is a 2-3 TD better team.
But we will see if a team in the weaker B10 West can beat them, or if we'll have to wait until the B10 championship game to see them get stomped.
They don't vote
If the voter didn't watch the game to see that Iowa isn't really that good and they just look at the fact that Iowa just beat #4 and their stats on defense (although inflated) are really good, why wouldn't you vote them #1?
If Iowa isn’t really that good, wouldn’t PSU losing to them knock them out of the top 10-15?
If they would have lost straight up, that probably would have happened, but they lost with a backup QB.
That loss could be soon….they have a history of losing to teams they shouldn’t.
Why does everyone assume that Iowa wouldn't/couldn't make adjustments at halftime if Clifford wasn't hurt. They got 4 interceptions because their defense was in the right position and are fast. Our lack of any form of running attack is what cost us the game.
They do at this point. The problem with Iowa is that their best records have always been mirages - they crumble when facing an opponent of a similar record later in the year.
1986 - #13 UCLA 45, #4 Iowa 28
2002 - #5 USC 38, #3 Iowa 17
2015 - #6 Stanfiord 45, #5 Iowa 15 (lost 17-14 to MSU, which lost 38-0 to Alabama in CFP)
It's hard to take Iowa seriously as a national title contender with that track record. I wasn't impressed with what I saw yesterday. They did get the W, but they needed a QB knockout to do it.
Are you new to cfb?? Many of them delegate their voting to assistants. That is pretty common knowledge
Right, that’s part of the team, correct? If Iowa loses their starting CB who leads the nation in INTs (which they did) and they lose, do they get to claim they should be ranked higher? Depth is a huge factor and has to be factored in. You don’t get to pick and choose.
Because even if they made adjustments, PSU went 37 minutes of play with 46 yards of offense. At the very least if we mustered a measly 100 more yards in those 37 minutes (they had 155 in one quarter mind you) that it would effect everything from time of possession to field position to likely more than the 3 points Roberson had (mind you Clifford had 17 in 17 minutes). To think they wouldn’t have won is highly unlikely I mean Iowa only won be 3 and had 23 points despite those offensive numbers for 2.5 quarters. How many do they score if we add another TD in the final 37 minutes, had the ball less, or weren’t in a position to pin us that much, also not take 8 penalties due to cadence issues…
I’d argue they were better than the other top 5 team they beat just yesterday.
The difference is we know that we were ranked too high. You really think those were two of the 4 best teams in the sport yesterday?
Your argument would be weak as you were getting curb stomped til our QB went out.
They don’t base ranking on woulda coulda shoulda’s. Just what was. This board is starting to sound a lot like the Husker board.
Just ignore the reality of my comment. I’ll say it again, you were getting curb stomped until our starting QB went out. Hard stop.
And you are ignoring the reality of reality in that it doesn’t matter who the QB was and rankings will reflect that.
2004, as in ancient history.
Even in the woefully weak west you need to go all the way back to 2004 to find any semblance of relevance for Iowa
You lost him when you used the word “semblance”….he’s an Iowa fan, keep it simple.
Which is the whole point. The rankings will belie the fact that this Iowa team is mediocre. Possibly the worst top 5 team in decades. Whether you will acknowledge it or not.
Jeff Brohm and Pat Fitzgerald usually own Kirk Ferentz, but probably not this year. If Iowa loses either of those Ferentz should retire mid-season.
I wouldn’t ever sell Fitz short for a one game situation especially against a team that has no offense.
It’s a top 5 team that beat a top 5 Penn St team. It’s not even the worst top 5 team in the past 24 hours.
Actually, we were up 14-3 when he took the hit and went up 17-3 on the next play.
Most likely a grad assistant at most schools, or in the case at Penn State, the Assistant AD in Charge of Polling.
