<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>In fairness, I think they're comparing bottom to bottom. They didn't list OSU playing Virginia Tech either. I read it as really meaning non-P5 teams, though that's not what they said. And while Illinois State is pretty good, a P5 will never get actual credit for playing an FCS team.</div><div><br>On Dec 8, 2015, at 5:59 PM, C King <<a href="mailto:kingherky@gmail.com">kingherky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>"While the Big Ten schedules were similar, Iowa played a cupcake non-conference set of teams (Illinois State, North Texas) while Ohio State’s non-conference opponents actually ended up being pretty good (Northern Illinois, Western Michigan)."</div><div> </div><div>Are they really comparing the worst of Iowa's non-conference schedule with two from tOSU? There is no mention of Pitt? </div><div> </div><div>I'm not saying we had the best OOC schedule, but this is lazy journalism in my opinion. I expected more from Yardbarker! </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Jim Monahan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimmonahan8@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimmonahan8@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://network.yardbarker.com/college_football/article_external/did_the_rose_bowl_get_it_right_choosing_iowa_over_ohio_state/s1_13156_20010322" target="_blank">http://network.yardbarker.com/college_football/article_external/did_the_rose_bowl_get_it_right_choosing_iowa_over_ohio_state/s1_13156_20010322</a></div>
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