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Excuses, excuses. Please, spare me the time. Iowa proved what it was worth against Northwestern.
A poor Northwestern team, I might add. Northwestern is so bad, the Wildcats lost to a Duke point guard named Greg Paulus in Syracuse, who’s 0-4 in the Big East for Syracuse.
The Little 11 is a joke. The Little 11 is not worthy of being better than Mountain West.
Three teams in the Mountain West would win the Little 11. TCU, Utah, and BYU. All three of them would roll through the Little 11.
Iowa was a fraud and it will be proven again this weekend when it faces Ohio State and Terrelle Pryor. An Ohio State team, mind you, that beat an overrated Penn State team mercifully last Saturday.
Ohio State will beat Iowa handily, putting the Hawkeyes back in its little place amongst the paper tigers of college football. Texas A&M, Missouri, Michigan State, you know the drill.
Iowa has done nothing ever. Iowa fans attack me and tell me two different years where they won a mythical national championship. Which is it, Iowa fans? 1957 or 1958?
According to the United Press International and the Associated Press polls—the only truly recognized national championship deciders at the time—Iowa did not win a national championship.
In 1957, Iowa finished sixth in the AP poll and fifth in the UPI poll. In 1958, again, Iowa finished second in both polls. There were no Sagarin Ratings, no BCS, and no computers.
Iowa beat a ranked Arizona team this season. Big deal. Somebody has to be ranked in the top 25.
Then Iowa fans want to claim a win over Wisconsin? Maybe in 1998, fine. But not since Barry Alvarez left the head coaching job in Madison have the Badgers mattered.
Three-loss teams are starting to creep into the polls in 2009 (Virginia Tech, Oregon State, Stanford). It is not out of the equation that a four-loss Nebraska team could theoretically finish in the Top 25.
Nebraska is horrible on offense, but the Huskers might have the best defense in major college football. Ndamukong Suh—Nebraska’s unblockable defensive tackle—is the best defender in the college game right now. Suh is worthy of an invite to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
Suh should not win the Heisman; they have trophies for interior linemen. If Suh doesn’t sweep all of them, there is something gravely wrong with the system.
Every word uttered about Iowa football was true. Iowa proved it for me on the field of play at home. No goal posts to tear down this time, Hawkeyes.
You are too busy losing to Northwestern. In a battle of four-loss teams between Oklahoma and Northwestern, Oklahoma would beat Northwestern by 40. Landry Jones would have a field day in the Little 11.
Such is life in the Big 12. You play poorly and a Nebraska or a Kansas State sneaks up on you and beats you. All except for Texas, but for the Longhorns watch out for Texas A&M.
Texas Tech and Oklahoma State would win the Big Ten with ease. Nobody in the Little 11 could stop either offense, even Oklahoma State without the best receiver in college football in Dez Bryant. Bryant is a star, a man in a child’s game.
Texas Tech would round up some quarterback from Texas high school football and he’ll hang seven touchdown passes on you in his first start. Texas Tech lost at Houston, not a bad loss at all. Oklahoma State lost to Houston at home.
Iowa fans completely baffle me. An unbiased opinion—nothing but the truth—and I am attacked for being completely right.
Not kind of right, 100 percent plain correct. There are five teams in college football that are worth a damn: Florida, Texas, Alabama, TCU, and Boise State. It’s a three-horse race for the BCS National Championship realistically because of the “logo on the helmet of the BCS Conference rule.”
Everybody else—due to scholarship reductions by the joke known as the NCAA—would lose to an average team on any given day. Which is why a USC and an Arizona can both lose at Washington. Which is why Texas Tech can pound Nebraska, but the Huskers then turn around and beat the best four-loss team in the history of college football in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s four losses—to BYU, Miami (FL), Texas, and Nebraska—have come by a total of 12 points. Oklahoma is literally four or five plays away from being unbeaten without it’s Heisman quarterback in Sam Bradford and the best college football tight end since former Sooner Keith Jackson, Jermaine Gresham.
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