{"id":2486,"date":"2012-10-29T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2012-10-29T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T17:07:45","slug":"the-impossible-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-impossible-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The impossible dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGzqbEeVWhs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They are the yin and yang of college football. One is in the top 10 of BCS teams for all-time wins, the other in the bottom 10 for all-time losses. From before the Great Depression until the mid-1990s, they played every year, and now they are again.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa State has beaten Oklahoma five times out of 76 attempts \u2014 the most lopsided 50-game-plus series in Division I-A. The Cyclones&#8217; record in the past half-century is 1-40-1.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s historical record means its fanbase sincerely asks questions like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landthieves.com\/board\/showthread.php?43534-Would-you-consider-11-2-to-be-a-failure-this-season\">Would you consider 11-2 to be a failure this season?<\/a>&#8221; and says &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimsonandcreammachine.com\/2012\/10\/28\/3565554\/exposed-what-all-this-should-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-2012-season\">The season is lost<\/a>&#8221; after losing to two teams in the BCS top five.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa State&#8217;s history of futility is too big for a blog post, so I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/oklahoma.html\">much longer piece here, picking out a handful of games<\/a> that were notable points in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Rhoads has done many things as Iowa State&#8217;s coach, but beating Oklahoma is not one of them \u2014 yet.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the windmill.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: It already wasn&#8217;t likely to happen, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20121029\/SPORTS020602\/121029006\/Iowa-State-football-Jake-Knott-expected-to-miss-rest-of-regular-season?Frontpage\">Jake Knott being out for the season<\/a> doesn&#8217;t help matters any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are the yin and yang of college football. One is in the top 10 of BCS teams for all-time wins, the other in the bottom 10 for all-time losses. From before the Great Depression until the mid-1990s, they played &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-impossible-dream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}