College Football Saturday
The Iowa State/Iowa football game doesn't mean as much to me as it did when I was a kid, or back when I was in college at Iowa State getting to broadcast some of the games on campus radio. Baseball has always been my sport, but once upon a harvest moon, I could get revved up for this annual game-- and do so with the best of 'em. Now I've carved out an almost 15-year professional career between the radio and student loan industries, and I understand better how profitable college football and the shaping of collegiate identities is for everybody other than the players actually risking livelihood and limb on the field. (Oh, will we ever see an end to this giant hypocrisy in our nation's educational system called the "student athlete"?)Also, the competition between the two schools is hardly fair. Not when you have the Iowa Board of Regents giving Iowa's football coach $3.65 million per year for 10 years. Not when you have members of the Board, who are supposed to oversee the health and well-being of both public institutions, voting last year to accept the move of the University of Nebraska into the Big Ten Conference, effectively destroying Iowa State's athletic conference and jeopardizing the future financial solvency of their entire athletic department. Then jumping in with the heavy promotion of the new Iowa/Nebraska rivalry. Therefore, there will be no recap of today's game. Not even the final score.
Instead, here are the predicted final scores of the game offered earlier this week by the Cedar Rapids Gazette "Pick 'ems" panel of 15 staff sportswriters and experts:
Iowa 27, Iowa State 14
Iowa 43, Iowa Sate 41 (3 OT)
Iowa 28, Iowa State 13
Iowa 28, Iowa State 10
Iowa 14, Iowa State 3
Iowa 14, Iowa State 3
Iowa 28, Iowa State 10
Iowa 21, Iowa State 17
Iowa 28, Iowa State 24
Iowa 20, Iowa State 10
Iowa 24, Iowa State 10
Iowa 27, Iowa State 13
Iowa 28, Iowa State 14
Iowa 27, Iowa State 13
Iowa 24, Iowa State 14
On second thought, here's the final score from today: Iowa State 44, Iowa 41. Suck it, Hawkeyes!
posted by CM @ 3:27 PM
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