** 2018 Opponent Previews: Iowa (Game 12) **

Redux said:
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Wow, it must be most impressive being the fifth winningest coach in the B1G with a 59.6 winning percentage.  Apparently, you must coach in the B1G for at least 20 years in order to even qualify for this honor.  Heck, Bo won over 70% of his games.  Urban Meyer has won over 90% of his games while in the B1G.  Dantonio has coached in the B1G for 11 years, and his winning percentage is almost 10 points higher than Ferentz.  It appears to me that Ferentz made the list simply by putting 20 years in the B1G. 

 
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It’s time for Iowa and Nebraska to embrace their football rivalry





By Scott Dochterman  







CHICAGO — The Missouri River carves a natural border between Iowa and Nebraska and two football programs that largely ignored each other for 100 years.

When the Big Ten expanded to include Nebraska in 2011, the teams were stapled together as each other’s finales. Their inaugural meeting as Big Ten foes had all the sizzle of flat champagne. That gray day in Lincoln taught everyone one important lesson: Rivalries are organic. They’re built over time with moments and events that shape and define a sport’s history.

Iowa and Nebraska didn’t have that in 2011. They almost have that today. Over the past seven years, their fans’ disdain for one another has grown exponentially and their competition has soared off the field. So have their similarities.

Omaha native and Iowa tight end Noah Fant was named to the Big Ten’s preseason players to watch list. Iowa high school defensive end Mosai Newsom committed to Nebraska concurrent with Fant’s announcement. Cornhuskers defensive coordinator Erik Chinander played football at Iowa and remains good friends with Hawkeyes offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz. Nebraska coach Scott Frost started his coaching career at Northern Iowa. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz’s first game as an assistant in 1981 and as a head coach in 1999 came in nonconference games against the Cornhuskers.

This month, an Iowa fan sent 70 cookies to a company corporate office in Nebraska with 56 frosted in gold and 14 pasted in red. The gesture commemorated the 5,614 hours since the Hawkeyes’ 56-14 win in Lincoln. On Twitter, Iowa fans regularly point out the 96-24 combined score in wins over the past two seasons. Nebraska fans flaunt the school’s five national titles, including three in the 1990s. Hawkeyes fans retort that it’s no longer the 1990s, which Huskers fans respond that at least they had the 1990s.
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Wonder what the details are behind this.  I have a hard time seeing how you make this mistake unless it wasn't a clearly marked cop car (I know some are like that).

 
Riley was so bad we went from beating Iowa being insufficient to keep one's job to having doubts we can stay on the field with them.

Frankly, unless injuries have taken their toll by then, I think we resume the historical one sided nature of this series this year. Iowa is still Iowa....we changed, not them.

 
brophog said:
Riley was so bad we went from beating Iowa being insufficient to keep one's job to having doubts we can stay on the field with them.

Frankly, unless injuries have taken their toll by then, I think we resume the historical one sided nature of this series this year. Iowa is still Iowa....we changed, not them.
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Their record will be dictated by if Ferentz is in a contract year.  

 
Dilly Dilly said:
Their record will be dictated by if Ferentz is in a contract year.  
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his contract runs through jan 31, 2026 and if they were to fire him without cause they'd owe him like 22.5 mil. (according to the usa today article from 2017. buyout is probably less now)

 
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