A look ahead at Nebraska's 2014 schedule

hskrfan4life said:
BigRedBuster said:
Caven said:
LukeinNE said:
BoKnowsD said:
I just started paying attention to this series. Do they play on a neutral field or do they go home&home
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Home and home, and yes, you should. Iowa's season seems to track pretty nicely with the outcome of that game. If they beat the Cyclones, they've typically turned out to have decent to good teams the last 5 or so years. If they lose that game, they're sweating bullets over the 6 wins necessary to make a bowl. I suspect this is because Paul Rhodes does a very nice job of maintaining a perfectly mediocre team in Ames. His only big failure on paper was his 3-9 team last year...that went 1-5 in one score games. Iowa on the other hand jumps all over the place from good to crappy with no apparent reason, so the ISU game is usually a pretty good harbinger of how the season is going to go for them.
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Except for 2001 where ISU kept Iowa from having a shot at the National Title. I still can't believe we let down in the 2nd half and let them beat us like that.
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I'm confused on this comment.
I didn't ever remember Iowa being that close to an NC so I went back and looked. In 2001, you ended up 7-5 and tied for 4th in the Big Ten. Are you talking about 2002?
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He must be, But if Iowa wins that game, Ohio State is still undefeated and I don't see a Iowa-Ohio State national title game. It would have been Miami again.
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2002 was a nice year for them, but they got pantsed by (a really good) USC team in the Orange Bowl, so I guess I never really considered them a NC contender, loss to ISU or no.

 
UNI will decide Iowa's fate this year lol. As to them I wish them the best until we meet them than I hope they are destroyed. I also hope they are highly ranked when we do this.

 
Iowa's winning percentages under Ferentz:

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If the trend continues they're due for another climb, but heaven knows there aren't many schools that wouldn't go at least 10-2 against THAT schedule.

 
papersun87 said:
If the trend continues they're due for another climb, but heaven knows there aren't many schools that wouldn't go at least 10-2 against THAT schedule.
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True, but is there another coach currently employed in FBS that has done less with more than Ferentz?

A 10-2 Iowa doesn't concern me, as Nebraska should be one of their two losses...

 
^That's more or less what I meant, although you articulated it better. Iowa could be wholly mediocre and still go 10-2.

Edit: CUTEST SIG GIF EVER

 
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In regards to the Iowa/Iowa State MNC conversation - yes I meant 2002. If Iowa wins that game we are undefeated and playing in the Rose Bowl against a crap Washington (I think it was) team instead of USC in the Orange Bowl while Ohio State and Miami play in the MNC game. Given that matchup, you likely have both Iowa and OSU undefeated at the end of the season. Of course USC proved that we had some holes in our game, but that was just before USC went on their tear through college football so I think we were better than USC made us look in that bowl game. We were ranked number 4 going in to that USC game so we might have made the playoffs if that was the format back then
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I know many of you look down on Iowa but I think that given how things are in today's football landscape, Iowa and Nebraska will be playing for the Big Ten West title many times on the day after Thanksgiving.

 
McNeese State opens up at number nine in FCS: http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs

RANK SCHOOL RECORD POINTS PREV

1 North Dakota State (18) 15-0 636 1

2 Eastern Washington (6) 12-3 615 3

3 Southeastern Louisiana (1) 11-3 542 6

4 New Hampshire 10-5 510 5

5 Montana 10-3 505 8

6 Coastal Carolina 12-3 447 7

7 Towson (1) 13-3 438 2

8 Jacksonville State 12-2 425 12

9 McNeese State 10-3 424 9

10 South Dakota State 9-5 332 14

11 Eastern Illinois 12-2 314 4

12 Fordham 12-2 305 10

13 Villanova 6-5 287 NR

14 Sam Houston State 9-5 277 13

15 Northern Iowa 7-5 263 NR

16 Chattanooga 8-4 238 25

17 Tennessee State 10-4 237 17

18 Furman 8-6 188 21

19 Montana State 7-5 170 20

20 Maine 10-3 169 11

21 Youngstown State 8-4 162 19

22 William & Mary 7-5 159 NR

23 Bethune-Cookman 10-3 136 16

24 Richmond 6-6 118 NR

25 Northern Arizona 9-3 116 15

(wow, copy/paste made that ugly. reformatted. still ugly.)

 
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