So we are on page five of this thread. An Iowa thread. And every time there is an Iowa thread on here it goes on for pages and pages and days and days.
But keep denying that they are indeed a rival. Keep saying we don't give a crap about a mediocre program like Iowa. Keep saying that it is insulting to our great "blue blood" tradition to even dare to compare Iowa to Nebraska. Keep saying that Iowa is just a momentary speed bump on our return to glory.
Or acknowledge the obvious. They are a border State with which we share a very common "prairie State" culture, who is in our conference, in our division, with a respectable football program, who has beaten us four years in a row and that they are, therefore, a very natural "rival". Any why shouldn't they be? Are we so haughty that we can't admit that they are a natural rival and that having a rivalry with them is not a bad thing but a good thing?
Many on here say that one of the things they miss about being in the old Big 8/12 were some of the natural rivalries we had with OU and Mizzou and KSU and CU, and that we don't have that yet in the B1G.
Well.... here you go.