{"id":12366,"date":"2020-10-21T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2020-10-18T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T02:24:16","slug":"updated-spreadsheet-isu-vs-ap-top-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/updated-spreadsheet-isu-vs-ap-top-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated spreadsheet: ISU vs. AP Top 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a plug for a page I&#8217;ve had around but, since it doesn&#8217;t fit in the highway-related stuff, just kind of floats. I set up a sortable HTML table of Iowa State football&#8217;s record both against teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 and as a team ranked in the Associated Press Top 25. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/isuvsaptop25.html\">It now goes through the end of the 2019 season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple notes with the update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wins against Oklahoma State and West Virginia in 2018 made for the second time in ISU history that the Cyclones defeated ranked teams in consecutive weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, 2018 tied five other years for beating two ranked opponents in a regular season. The 2017 Liberty Bowl defeat of Memphis is the only way to get to three in a year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/collegepollarchive.com\">College Poll Archive<\/a> is an indispensable resource, and I used its data to flesh out the BCS and College Football Playoff ranking situations when ISU was in there but not AP.<\/li>\n<li>It takes talent to drop out of the poll in an idle week, but ISU figured out how to do it last year. But see the next item!<\/li>\n<li>In October 2020, ISU had some of its best poll vaults: Four spots with a home win against Texas Tech (24 to 20) and three spots (20 to 17)\u00a0<em>without playing anybody<\/em>.\n<ul>\n<li>The best jump is\u00a0five (20 to 15) after a home win against Kansas State in 1972<\/li>\n<li>ISU rose four spots in 2002 after beating Nebraska at home and then four more in an off week. Cumulatively, that&#8217;s eight spots in two weeks, seconded only by the seven in 2020, also involving an off week.<\/li>\n<li>ISU also rose three spots (20 to 17) after a road win against Iowa in 1978.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iowa State is 2-2 all-time against Oklahoma State when the Cowboys are ranked in the top 10. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-view-from-section-o\/\">You might have heard about one of those.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a plug for a page I&#8217;ve had around but, since it doesn&#8217;t fit in the highway-related stuff, just kind of floats. I set up a sortable HTML table of Iowa State football&#8217;s record both against teams ranked in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/updated-spreadsheet-isu-vs-ap-top-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions\/12446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}