What gets fans of college football teams like USC and Florida excited? They go into the season knowing they should win all of their games. They get pushed a couple times a year but normally manage to pull out the win in the end. They get any recruit they want so they know going into the season that they are more talented than all of the teams on their schedule.
Rooting for the Iowa Hawkeyes is another thing altogether.
They win a fair number of games but also regularly lose to teams like Iowa State, Indiana, and Northwestern. They frequently lose out on big recruits. They regularly have walk ons end up playing as starters.
All of which is part of the fun of rooting for a team like the Hawkeyes. Sure losing to ISU 7 out of the last 10 times sucks but it makes it all that much sweeter when the team goes crazy and wins every other game like back in 2002. It makes it that much more fun when the top 5 recruits from Illinois come to Iowa in one year. It makes winning games at Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State something to actually cheer about rather than just being happy they didn’t lose.
So when Iowa falls apart against a team they should easily handle handle, don’t stress for more than a couple hours. They are just setting us up for a special memory somewhere down the line.
Let’s hope they are planning one of those memories for this Saturday against Wisconsin.
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