{"id":7911,"date":"2016-09-16T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2016-09-16T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:13:07","slug":"early-start-to-big-12-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/early-start-to-big-12-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Early start to Big 12 schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thatcutesite.com\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kitten_needs_hug-600x449.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"359\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 17, 2016 (projected):<\/strong> An angry TCU team, coming off a double-overtime loss to Arkansas, took out its frustrations on the hapless Iowa State Cyclones to start Big 12 play&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Iowa State game at TCU means an early start to Big 12 play. ISU has played TCU twice in September before, in 1995 and 1998 as non-conference games (both losses). This year, the early date is for Big 12 TV scheduling purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In the Big Eight era and the 11-game schedule, Iowa State never started conference play before Oct. 1, and didn&#8217;t even start the season until the second Saturday in September through the mid-1980s. After that, the number of conference games played before Sept. 23 can be counted on one hand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aug. 30, 1997 \u2014 loss to Oklahoma State<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 31, 2002* \u2014 win over Kansas<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 18, 2010 \u2014 loss to Kansas State at Arrowhead Stadium<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 6, 2014 \u2014 loss to Kansas State. This was originally supposed to be the Toledo game but for TV purposes, the K-State and Toledo dates were swapped and ISU hosted Toledo for Homecoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*The 2002 schedule is especially weird. ISU played 14 games that season, with the Eddie Robinson Classic, a special allowance game against UConn (which was transitioning to D-IA and beat ISU), and the Humanitarian Bowl. The fifth game of the 2002 season was Sept. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m not opposed to starting the season with a conference game as some SEC teams do \u2014 say what you will about Cupcake Saturday in November, but it serves its purpose. Then again, ISU&#8217;s alleged cupcakes <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-thought-about-indigestion-from-an-alleged-cupcake\/\">give us indigestion anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5><em>Photo via thatcutesite.com<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2016 (projected): An angry TCU team, coming off a double-overtime loss to Arkansas, took out its frustrations on the hapless Iowa State Cyclones to start Big 12 play&#8230; This week&#8217;s Iowa State game at TCU means an early &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/early-start-to-big-12-schedule\/\">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-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","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=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}