What will it take?

[jegbomb52]

Re: What will it take?

"Outside of beating the #2 team in the nation.."

I'd argue that winning the Outback Bowl qualifies as a "big game."

Iowa didn't play the "Outback Bowl" they played in the Outback Bowl against South Carolina, which was not a "big game."


The only big game the Iowa Hawkeyes have played in over the last ten years was the Orange bowl. You all know how that turned out.

Coincedentally the only big game UNI has played in is the National Title game, and we also know how that turned out.

Secondly, Penn State was not the number 2 team in the country in 2008. I don't even remember if they finished in the top ten. The only rankings that matter are the ones that come out at the end of they year. Deleware didn't beat the #1 team in the country in 2007. They lost to them when they lost to Appy State.

[jegbomb52]

Re: What will it take?

Back to the subject.

We should not win this football game. We have no business winnning this football game. If we do it will be for a couple of reasons.

1. We put the ball in the end zone at least 3 times in the first half on OFFENSE.

2. We will need a big special teams play. Block, Return for TD, Long Field Goal, bad snap, something in our favor over the course of the game.

3. We need Iowa to make some un-forced errors, something like tipping a ball that should be caught into the hands of a defender for a pick, then get points. Or, fumble a center / qb exchange.

4. We need to play FLAWLESS football.

If all of these things happen we might, maybe, just a little bit, stand a shot at leaving IA City with a W.

It is possible, not probable. Please understand the difference my friends.

[Silent Earl]

Re: What will it take?

610's point stands. There used to be 8 teams playing on New Years Day and those were the last college games of the year. Now there must be at least 30 teams playing on or after the first of the year. There is no prestige to it outside of the BCS bowls.

[UNIAlum95]

Re: What will it take?

Back to the subject.

We should not win this football game. We have no business winnning this football game. If we do it will be for a couple of reasons.

1. We put the ball in the end zone at least 3 times in the first half on OFFENSE.

2. We will need a big special teams play. Block, Return for TD, Long Field Goal, bad snap, something in our favor over the course of the game.

3. We need Iowa to make some un-forced errors, something like tipping a ball that should be caught into the hands of a defender for a pick, then get points. Or, fumble a center / qb exchange.

4. We need to play FLAWLESS football.

If all of these things happen we might, maybe, just a little bit, stand a shot at leaving IA City with a W.

It is possible, not probable. Please understand the difference my friends.

Perfect explanation of the game at hand. Everything has to go in our favor to win. Let's hope the stars align. If not we move on with the hopes that we come out healthy.

[panthertrack]

Re: What will it take?

Back to the subject.

We should not win this football game. We have no business winnning this football game. If we do it will be for a couple of reasons.

1. We put the ball in the end zone at least 3 times in the first half on OFFENSE.

2. We will need a big special teams play. Block, Return for TD, Long Field Goal, bad snap, something in our favor over the course of the game.

3. We need Iowa to make some un-forced errors, something like tipping a ball that should be caught into the hands of a defender for a pick, then get points. Or, fumble a center / qb exchange.

4. We need to play FLAWLESS football.

If all of these things happen we might, maybe, just a little bit, stand a shot at leaving IA City with a W.

It is possible, not probable. Please understand the difference my friends.

Great post.

[ubuntuCAT]

Re: What will it take?

Perfect explanation of the game at hand. Everything has to go in our favor to win. Let's hope the stars align. If not we move on with the hopes that we come out healthy.

I'm not sure if you meant it that way but I don't understand why people seem to always mention the "I hope we come out healthy" when we play against FBS....... Are we some how more likely to get injured playing against Iowa than SIU?

[UNIAlum95]

Re: What will it take?

I'm not sure if you meant it that way but I don't understand why people seem to always mention the "I hope we come out healthy" when we play against FBS....... Are we some how more likely to get injured playing against Iowa than SIU?

Has nothing against playing against big bad Iowa. It's just, I want a healthy team when the games actually count.

[Roy Fleming]

Re: What will it take?

What will it take to beat Iowa?

I will probably take the Iowa players thinking that they have the game won before the kickoff. It's the same when UNI plays a good Division II team.

[9YRPLAN]

Re: What will it take?

610's point stands. There used to be 8 teams playing on New Years Day and those were the last college games of the year. Now there must be at least 30 teams playing on or after the first of the year. There is no prestige to it outside of the BCS bowls.

then explain why only 5 teams currently fall into this category? i understand your point but you are looking at it from the wrong perspective

[Big_Al]

Re: What will it take?

Killjoy.

Back to the subject.

We should not win this football game. We have no business winnning this football game. If we do it will be for a couple of reasons.

1. We put the ball in the end zone at least 3 times in the first half on OFFENSE.

2. We will need a big special teams play. Block, Return for TD, Long Field Goal, bad snap, something in our favor over the course of the game.

3. We need Iowa to make some un-forced errors, something like tipping a ball that should be caught into the hands of a defender for a pick, then get points. Or, fumble a center / qb exchange.

4. We need to play FLAWLESS football.

If all of these things happen we might, maybe, just a little bit, stand a shot at leaving IA City with a W.

It is possible, not probable. Please understand the difference my friends.

[TheMacHouse]

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then explain why only 5 teams currently fall into this category? i understand your point but you are looking at it from the wrong perspective

The Big 10 and SEC get to send 4-5 teams to 'New Years Day" bowls while the other BCS conferences send 2-3 teams so it is easier for the Big 10 and SEC.

I don't know who the 5 teams are but if either Texas or Oklahoma are not 1 of the 5 it would still be hard to say Iowa was better than those 2 during that 7 year period. It still is a good honor for Iowa.

[SteinPizza]

Re: What will it take?

I don't know who the 5 teams are but if either Texas or Oklahoma are not 1 of the 5 it would still be hard to say Iowa was better than those 2 during that 7 year period. It still is a good honor for Iowa.

I'm an Iowa fan, but anyone comparing Iowa to Texas and Oklahoma is seriously delusional. Iowa has a good, solid program. Texas and Oklahoma are elite.

It is nice that Iowa has played in some meaningful bowl games, but the New Years Day concept is soooo watered down compared to 15 years ago. It's lost a lot of it's meaning, to the point where bringing it up as a sales point sounds like Kool Aid drenched BS.

[9YRPLAN]

Re: What will it take?

there are no more new years day bowls now than there have been in the past. i dont understand you guys' argument at all here. sure, there are some new bowls played after jan 1, but they are not considered "new years day bowls" from a historic or prestige standpoint.

[ubuntuCAT]

Re: What will it take?

It is nice that Iowa has played in some meaningful bowl games, but the New Years Day concept is soooo watered down compared to 15 years ago. It's lost a lot of it's meaning, to the point where bringing it up as a sales point sounds like Kool Aid drenched BS.

Especially when in several of them the major qualification Iowa had was how many fans they would bring and not how good their team was.

[06panther10]

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Especially when in several of them the major qualification Iowa had was how many fans they would bring and not how good their team was.

That is also a great point. That really demeans the prestige of a bowl when one of the factors for choosing teams is picking the ones that will make the most money, rather than who deserves it most.

Man, that bowl system is a mess.