We'd Be Favored v Iowa

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The Volunteers (7-6) took the momentum early Friday, scoring on their first four possessions and leading 28-0 before Iowa (7-6) managed 70 yards.
 
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Confidence is a powerful thing, and Iowa is obviously playing with a lot of it right now. I wouldn't anticipate the game mirroring the one played in January per se.....but superior talent and team speed is superior talent and team speed. We'd beat em again, likely by 14-17 points IMO not accounting for the Butch Jones "we have a 2 score lead in the third, can we start taking a knee yet?"factor.
 
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Iowa is a better team than most people think. I grew up pulling for Iowa & Tennessee, and its kinda funny that everyone is mad at little Iowa because their having a good season. Its like a lot of people are mad at Iowa because its not their team that's undefeated. I've never seen so much hate for a team like Iowa that's getting their chance to shine for once. I think its awesome that Iowa can throw a monkey wrench in the playoff system this season, if they take care of Nebraska tomorrow.
 
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It was clear that UT wanted to be there last year. If UT played Iowa this year it would be a different game. I still think UT wins.
 
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People realize we didn't play Iowa right, we played Iowa State.. Totally different team. Iowa is UT Iowa State is Vandy.
 
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Iowa is better than many are giving them credit. On any given Saturday, they'd beat a bunch of teams in the SEC. They're certainly capable of beating Tennessee, and the sad thing is even if they did, all you'd hear is how poorly UT coached and/or played and no one would recognize that they can play a littlle.

They're big, strong, experienced and disciplined. They have a good QB (Tennessee kid) and they're pretty well coached. They recruit Iowa kids. They do it right. I hope they win tomorrow.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
Iowa is better than many are giving them credit. On any given Saturday, they'd beat a bunch of teams in the SEC. They're certainly capable of beating Tennessee, and the sad thing is even if they did, all you'd hear is how poorly UT coached and/or played and no one would recognize that they can play a littlle.

They're big, strong, experienced and disciplined. They have a good QB (Tennessee kid) and they're pretty well coached. They recruit Iowa kids. They do it right. I hope they win tomorrow.
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Recruited talent predicts wins at an alarming rate. There are 6 SEC teams that recruit in the top 10. I believe there are 11 in the top 20, and all 14 in the top 40. The B1G has 2 teams in the top 20. None of them are Iowa, nor did Iowa play them. In fact, based on these numbers (if memory serves), if Iowa was in the SEC they would be the least talented team, and it wouldn't be close.

The odds that Iowa would even have a winning record if they swapped schedules with virtually any SEC team is extremely, prohibitively, low. What you're seeing with Iowa is a what I call the Utah State effect (fans ignore the weight of talent on wins and get too wrapped up in a mid tier talent team who has a schedule made up of typically lessor talented teams). The most misleading quote ever applied to CFB is that "you are what your record says you are". Nope. Not even close.
 
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SaintLouisVol said:
Iowa is better than many are giving them credit. On any given Saturday, they'd beat a bunch of teams in the SEC. They're certainly capable of beating Tennessee, and the sad thing is even if they did, all you'd hear is how poorly UT coached and/or played and no one would recognize that they can play a littlle.

They're big, strong, experienced and disciplined. They have a good QB (Tennessee kid) and they're pretty well coached. They recruit Iowa kids. They do it right. I hope they win tomorrow.
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I get that attitude, and partially agree... but surely you realize the reason why they get no respect here is because it was 42-7 in the bowl game last year before UT took the foot off the pedal. So our frame of reference is mostly limited to a game that Tennessee could have literally named the score, and that was only 10 1/2 months ago.
 
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daj2576 said:
Recruited talent predicts wins at an alarming rate. There are 6 SEC teams that recruit in the top 10. I believe there are 11 in the top 20, and all 14 in the top 40. The B1G has 2 teams in the top 20. None of them are Iowa, nor did Iowa play them. In fact, based on these numbers (if memory serves), if Iowa was in the SEC they would be the least talented team, and it wouldn't be close.

The odds that Iowa would even have a winning record if they swapped schedules with virtually any SEC team is extremely, prohibitively, low. What you're seeing with Iowa is a what I call the Utah State effect (fans ignore the weight of talent on wins and get too wrapped up in a mid tier talent team who has a schedule made up of typically lessor talented teams). The most misleading quote ever applied to CFB is that "you are what your record says you are". Nope. Not even close.
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That quote is true in the NFL. I see your point regarding CFB.
 
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