Iowa up to #5 in the CFP rankings... can we beat Rutgers to set up a showdown?

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I guess to me, us losing more to Wisconsin doesn't negate them from being s rival.

What negates it to me is we had 1 hard fought game against them. To me, a rivalry is a long series of games that are hard fought. We've been blown out by Wisconsin 3 times and beat them once.

The Iowa games have also been close, but we've won 3 out of 4. A rivalry to me can't have lots of lopsided wins and an unbalanced win-loss record.

A rivalry can't be established over a period of 4-5 games, a true rivaly needs to be built over 10 - 20 years to get that balanced win/loss record and some history...IMHO

The ADs should have done everything possible to keep the Oklahoma rivalry. It would have been awesome to play Oklahoma every year as an out of conference game after leaving the Big 12.

Oklahoma didn't want to continue it when the Big 8 merged with the Texas teams to become the Big 12. Imo, when they took away the Thanksgiving Day game it signaled the end of a truly fine rivalry.

I agree, it seemed like they were tired of an annual beating. I still believe Oklahoma-Nebraska would be a great OOC game for both programs.

I guess to me, us losing more to Wisconsin doesn't negate them from being s rival.

What negates it to me is we had 1 hard fought game against them. To me, a rivalry is a long series of games that are hard fought. We've been blown out by Wisconsin 3 times and beat them once.

The Iowa games have also been close, but we've won 3 out of 4. A rivalry to me can't have lots of lopsided wins and an unbalanced win-loss record.

A rivalry can't be established over a period of 4-5 games, a true rivaly needs to be built over 10 - 20 years to get that balanced win/loss record and some history...IMHO

The ADs should have done everything possible to keep the Oklahoma rivalry. It would have been awesome to play Oklahoma every year as an out of conference game after leaving the Big 12.

Oklahoma didn't want to continue it when the Big 8 merged with the Texas teams to become the Big 12. Imo, when they took away the Thanksgiving Day game it signaled the end of a truly fine rivalry.

I agree, it seemed like they were tired of an annual beating. I still believe Oklahoma-Nebraska would be a great OOC game for both programs.

I think it would be also.