{"id":7477,"date":"2016-05-18T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2016-05-16T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:51:53","slug":"sooner-or-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/sooner-or-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Sooner or never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got ahead of the game this time and updated my <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/oklahoma.html\">in-depth study of the Iowa State-Oklahoma football series<\/a> in the off-season. One thing I discovered while adjusting the numbers:<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Bob Stoops era, Iowa State has been tied with Oklahoma at 0-0 for more aggregate game time than it has held a lead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The main update part is about the charts, below. Now that Indiana is playing Michigan and Ohio State on an annual basis, I threw the Hoosiers&#8217; futility against the Buckeyes into the home\/away winless lists. I think that&#8217;ll be there a while. (Meanwhile, this year Kentucky will be playing Alabama for only the eighth time in the past quarter-century, and at Tuscaloosa for the only time between 2008 and <em>at least<\/em> 2026 unless the SEC goes to nine conference games.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/winlesshome.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/winlessaway.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/winlessattempts.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iowa State could beat Oklahoma in three out of every four matchups and still be more than 20 games behind in the record at the turn of the next century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got ahead of the game this time and updated my in-depth study of the Iowa State-Oklahoma football series in the off-season. One thing I discovered while adjusting the numbers: In the Bob Stoops era, Iowa State has been tied &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/sooner-or-never\/\">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-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","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=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}