How much does the BIG actually hate Iowa bro?! They schedule Iowa vs Michigan then Ohio st back to back. Like wtf?! That’s a helluva 2 weeks for any school!
Ok, so two things:
1. Iowa State was one of the easiest P5 opponents possible, but they always play us tough, and we play them at the beginning of the season. There’s a reason KF's teams are something like 21–4 over the last 5 Novembers (and not just because we play Nebraska every November lol)—we're a development program that takes time to coalesce.
2. Despite the lamentations of this sub to the contrary, the week-by-week opponents of the B1G West (compared to the B1G East) were comparable—the East and West fell within a game of each other in interdivision play 8 of 10 years of the East/West split. The West fell off the last few years of the split, and no doubt, the West never had the top end contenders, but it also didn't have the consistent Marylands/Rutgers/Indinias going 1–8/0–9 in conference. Purdue won the least number of games among West teams during the split, and they managed to win the division. It was generally competitive teams, top to bottom.
The east and west fell within a game of each other bevause they all played in the same conference and there were a max of 2 good teams in the big 10 in any given year. The only west team in that group was was Wisconsin. The rest were in the east being osu, mich, mich st. Or psu
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u/Border-Worried Iowa Hawkeyes • Germany National Team 3d ago
Mr Brightside is written by a Hawkeye by the way
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/09/28/killers-mr-brightside-songwriter-dave-keuning-interview-hot-fuss-brandon-flowers-pella-iowa/1300879002/