Week 11 Other Games Thread

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BigTenGuy said:
Iowa has not beaten a team that ended the season ranked since 2019 Minnesota. Not impressed with Iowa’s direction as a program.
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True, but using our own RTB vernacular, they are rowing a steady course and are willing to throw excess ballast overboard if needed (see you later Brian).

That said, the hand on the tiller is getting up there so interesting to see if a course correction is in the future.
 

BigTenGuy said:
Iowa has not beaten a team that ended the season ranked since 2019 Minnesota. Not impressed with Iowa’s direction as a program.
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On average you only get about 2 chances per year to do that. There's only two schools who have won more B1G games over that period than Iowa, Ohio St and Michigan. This has been Ferentz's best 6 year run in the 27 years he's been there.
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
On average you only get about 2 chances per year to do that. There's only two schools who have won more B1G games over that period than Iowa, Ohio St and Michigan. This has been Ferentz's best 6 year run in the 27 years he's been there.
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Honestly if Ferentz retires it’s going to be wild times. Hopefully they hire frost
 


Panthadad2 said:
I see the excuses about Washington and Oregon being limited by bad weather and just shake my head.
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Are you saying playing in a downpour in one game and a rain/snow mix in another didn't have any sort of impact in keeping the score low?

Doesn't matter where a team is located, no team does well in crap conditions like that. Huge advantage for the defenses when it is raining/snowing......
 

GopherWeatherGuy said:
On average you only get about 2 chances per year to do that. There's only two schools who have won more B1G games over that period than Iowa, Ohio St and Michigan. This has been Ferentz's best 6 year run in the 27 years he's been there.
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From 2015-21, Iowa beat at least 1 ranked team every year, including # 2 Michigan in 2016 (finished # 10), # 3 OSU in 2017 (finished # 5), and # 7 Minnesota in 2019 (finished # 10). Iowa beat no ranked teams in 2022-24, and has yet to beat a ranked team this year. Seems like a trend.
 


Should be last time it happens. It was bush league. Suspension or fines in future. No way the officials on the field can catch this during a game.


 
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stocker08 said:
We better beat the hell out of this dork Cal QB next year. Total dork.
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Cal isn't on the schedule next year. Eastern Illinois, Mississippi State, and Akron - all at home.

I suppose there is a chance we could go to the Las Vegas Bowl this postseason and meet them there since I think the assigned opponent to that bowl is a former PAC 12 team.
 

BigTenGuy said:
Not impressed with Iowa’s direction as a program.
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Iowa hasn't had a losing season since 2012. They've had four seasons of 10 or more wins since that time. They've been ranked 5 times at the end of the season since then and have a pretty fair chance of finishing the season ranked this year.

Just how impressive did you expect Iowa to be? I think very few, if any, have thought of them as a top tier team nationally.
 

TwistingMyMelon said:
Iowa hasn't had a losing season since 2012. They've had four seasons of 10 or more wins since that time. They've been ranked 5 times at the end of the season since then and have a pretty fair chance of finishing the season ranked this year.

Just how impressive did you expect Iowa to be? I think very few, if any, have thought of them as a top tier team nationally.
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Their dominance over us skews how some locally look at them. They had a 12-0 season but it resulted in losses in BTTG and their bowl and 12-2 finish. That was 10 years ago. Ferentz has never had a season with fewer than 2 losses. Iowa has averaged 4 losses per season over the last 10 years. Still better than us.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Should be last time it happens. It was bush league. Suspension or fines in future. No way the officials on the field can catch this during a game.


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So the play itself wasn’t a penalty actually. Since it was the first time the punt team was on the field.

The penalty actually would’ve been when the second #80 lined up as punter (who happened to be the real punter)
 



TwistingMyMelon said:
Iowa hasn't had a losing season since 2012. They've had four seasons of 10 or more wins since that time. They've been ranked 5 times at the end of the season since then and have a pretty fair chance of finishing the season ranked this year.

Just how impressive did you expect Iowa to be? I think very few, if any, have thought of them as a top tier team nationally.
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Iowa has 6 AP top 15 finishes under Ferentz: 2002 (#8), 2003 (#8), 2004 (#8), 2009 (#7), 2015 (#9), 2019 (#15). Top 15 is a more than realistic goal for Iowa.
 

TwistingMyMelon said:
Iowa hasn't had a losing season since 2012. They've had four seasons of 10 or more wins since that time. They've been ranked 5 times at the end of the season since then and have a pretty fair chance of finishing the season ranked this year.

Just how impressive did you expect Iowa to be? I think very few, if any, have thought of them as a top tier team nationally.
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He’s saying they took a step back. Which, to be fair, they’ve gone to zero BCS/NY6/playoff games since 2019 where as 2012-2016 they went to two.

I don’t agree with his intensity of opinion, but Iowas Highs have been lower. I don’t agree because in the stretch he said they took a step back from they also finished unranked more often by losing more games to unranked teams
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
This whole taunting the crowd thing is really dumb.


We saw Purdue doing it too.

Show some sportsmanship.
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Well, that's not going to happen unless AAU and sports clubs start emphasizing it. Sportsmanship doesn't put money in your pocket, and that is the prevalent mentality.
 

Some guy said:
He’s saying they took a step back. Which, to be fair, they’ve gone to zero BCS/NY6/playoff games since 2019 where as 2012-2016 they went to two.

I don’t agree with his intensity of opinion, but Iowas Highs have been lower. I don’t agree because in the stretch he said they took a step back from they also finished unranked more often by losing more games to unranked teams
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This still underscores how pathetic the Gophers failures against Iowa are. You are arguing about whether Iowa is better or not, and we are 1-10 against them in the last eleven seasons.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
Their dominance over us skews how some locally look at them. They had a 12-0 season but it resulted in losses in BTTG and their bowl and 12-2 finish. That was 10 years ago. Ferentz has never had a season with fewer than 2 losses. Iowa has averaged 4 losses per season over the last 10 years. Still better than us.
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As I mentioned before, I have never thought of them as a top tier national team. What I think they are is a very solid and consistent second tier team that is rarely impressive offensively but is consistently strong defensively (and also with special teams). Iowa is a program that consistently does what it is expected to do by those other than its most optimistic fans. It very rarely reaches the highest peaks but a favorable consistency can be impressive too.
 


BigTenGuy said:
Iowa has 6 AP top 15 finishes under Ferentz: 2002 (#8), 2003 (#8), 2004 (#8), 2009 (#7), 2015 (#9), 2019 (#15). Top 15 is a more than realistic goal for Iowa.
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Yes, and by your own data, they've done that 6 times this century. That doesn't mean they will reach that goal every season or even most seasons. If a student gets two A grades, two B grades and one C grade, that doesn't mean he's an "A" student. Even during Ferentz's earlier period, they had some mediocre years.
 


TwistingMyMelon said:
Iowa hasn't had a losing season since 2012. They've had four seasons of 10 or more wins since that time. They've been ranked 5 times at the end of the season since then and have a pretty fair chance of finishing the season ranked this year.

Just how impressive did you expect Iowa to be? I think very few, if any, have thought of them as a top tier team nationally.
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I know it’s simplistic, but I measure almost everything from a success perspective based upon the type of bowl game at the end of the year. Iowa has run circles around us for the better part of 40 years and it’s no different the last 10 or the last 5.
 

Ewert86PC said:
Well, that's not going to happen unless AAU and sports clubs start emphasizing it. Sportsmanship doesn't put money in your pocket, and that is the prevalent mentality.
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It used to be a flag ...

Taunting the crowd didn't get Purdue shit either, Rutgers ...
 







MaxyJR1 said:
It’s stated wonky but I believe they’re saying it should have been penalized on the second punt.
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That is how I read it as well.

You can bet coaches around the country will be paying a lot more attention to duplicate numbers on future gameday rosters since I guess USC made this change on that roster for the past few weeks but never on their website.
 

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