{"id":2858,"date":"2013-01-14T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2013-01-14T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T20:39:32","slug":"the-three-game-ot-loss-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/the-three-game-ot-loss-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The three-game OT loss club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of SB Nation&#8217;s college football writers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2013\/1\/14\/3859894\/2012-college-football-best-games\">ranked the year&#8217;s games with this stretch in the middle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>52. Michigan State 16, Wisconsin 13 (OT) (October 27).<br \/>\n51. Ohio State 21, Wisconsin 14 (OT) (November 17).<br \/>\n50. Penn State 24, Wisconsin 21 (OT) (November 24)<\/strong>. Wisconsin: the best 8-6 team of all-time. I am confident in saying that. The Badgers were close to much, much more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Iowa State went 7-5 with the following:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nebraska 27, Iowa State 20 (2OT) (October 1).<br \/>\nMissouri 27, Iowa State 24 (OT) (October 15).<br \/>\nKansas 24, Iowa State 21 (OT) (November 26).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If ISU had won any of those three, the Cyclones, instead of Colorado, would have had the chance to be steamrolled 70-3 by Texas in the Big 12 Championship. That probably\u00a0means they wouldn&#8217;t have been called the best 8-5 team ever, though.<\/p>\n<p>The 1971 ISU team, which only lost to 1-2-3 poll finishers Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado in the regular season and then lost to LSU in the Sun Bowl, arguably holds the &#8220;best&#8221; distinction among 8-4 teams. (CU was #5 at the time of the game.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of SB Nation&#8217;s college football writers ranked the year&#8217;s games with this stretch in the middle: 52. Michigan State 16, Wisconsin 13 (OT) (October 27). 51. Ohio State 21, Wisconsin 14 (OT) (November 17). 50. Penn State 24, Wisconsin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/the-three-game-ot-loss-club\/\">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-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","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=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}