First Annual Big Ten Dislike Standings

As a Hawkeye fan, these are the teams that I dislike in order. I will start with the teams that don't bother me and go down to my #1.

11. PENN STATE: As a Hawk fan, Penn State is the team that is furthest away from Iowa, has great tradition along with a legendary coach. Iowa pretty much owns Penn State. We knocked them out of National Title contention in 2008, we then went to Happy Valley and beat them in 2009 with an unbelievable punt block by Adrian Clayborn, and then again in 2010. Iowa has a nice record of late on PSU.

10. MICHIGAN STATE: Sparty doesn't bother me much, and we took them to the wood shed last year and they were a pretty good team coming into Kinnick. I think Kirk Cousins thought he was a Hawkeye that day, because he threw some nice passes to the black jerseys. McNutt came up huge in 2009 at MSU on last second TD. MSU fans don't bother me, seem respectable.

9. PURDUE: This is our new cross over rival, whoop-to-do. Iowa and Purdue have had some slug matches, and the game is usually close between the 2. Purdue doesn't bother me, and I actually look forward to them bringing their band as they have the largest bass drum in the land. I think who ever wins the game should get the drum, that would be a cool trophy.

8. INDIANA: Does anybody in Indiana care about Hoosier football? They pass like crazy, and their band plays a very annoying song when they get a first down, but I'm not ranking the bands. Their fans don't care, so I don't care.

7. ILLINOIS: They are suppose to kind of be a rival to the Hawks do to geography, but the Hawks hardly play them despite the closeness in proximity. Playing Illinois to me is no different than playing Indiana, other than Illinois has the Zooker running up and down the sideline.

6. MICHIGAN: Oh big Blue. You love to beat them, and if you lose to them, well they are the winningest program in college football, so what can you do. Iowa plays Michigan tough, and Michigan fans have respect for the Iowa program. 

5. MINNESOTA: This is where we start to turn the heat up a bit. Minnesota's fan base talks a lot of smack, but then when you go up to the Twin Cities, they are pretty quiet. Then again in my history of invading the Twin Cities the games were always at Kinnick North, people in Minnesota call it the metrodome. Hawk fans would fill the upper deck in black and gold, and most likely outnumbered the gopher fans, but they pumped crowd noise in so it would appear that they actually were the home team. Minnesota is a lot like Iowa State, the Hawks should win, and if they don't, it looks very poorly as Iowa is typically the better team.  

4. OHIO STATE: Look, we know that you are good, we know that you  know that you are good. OSU fans come to town, and you can't tell the difference between OSU fans or car dealers. The all look like snakes, talk like snakes, and think they are the best thing ever to walk onto your campus.Very arrogant fanbase, but when you win the conference almost every year, maybe that is what happens.

3. WISCONSIN: I have always disliked Wisconsin. The students of Wisconsin come to Kinnick, march around the stadium like they own it. They think they can just bring in their 250 pond running backs every year and just run down your throat. They play very similar to Iowa, and makes it a good old fashion smash mouth football. Its a great rivalry, and its even better when Iowa wins. I can't tell you how disappointed I was last year when the Hawks stopped them and they ran a fake punt for what seemed like 50 yard gain.That is the one play that replays in my head all off season and stung for quite some time.The Hawks had them, and let them off the hook, and they go on to win the B10 and got the Rose Bowl berth. If the State of Wisconsin decided to join Canada, I would be all for it, they can take those stinkin Badgers and those cheesehead Packers in Green Bay too.

2. NORTHWESTERN: Yes, the little school from Northern Chicago. This team annoys me like no other. There dink and dump passing game drive me crazy and gets my blood pressure going as they march up and down the field on the bend but don't break defense of Iowa. For whatever reason, Iowa struggles to beat Northwestern. They beat Iowa back to back years at Kinnick, and then last year at their place. They have our number like we have Penn State's. They remind me of when Iowa State started to beat Iowa, and it was so frustrating because you know that we are a better program. Northwestern can't fill their stadium unless they play Iowa, Michigan or Ohio State. Nobody cares in Chicago about the wildcats.    

and No shock here,
1. NEBRASKA: They are the new kid that comes to your school, thinks he is better than you, tries to steal your girlfriend, take your starting position on the football team, everybody adores them, but you can't stand the sight of them. Welcome Nebraska. The most arrogant fan base in all of the land. I can't even imagine what a Nebraska vs. Ohio State game would be like. The fans will miss the game because they will be arguing out in the parking lot about who has more trophies than the other. Nebraska has won some National titles, it has been over a decade, but they will make you believe they have won ever title ever known to man. They only buy red cars in Nebraska, they feel that every thing has to be the color red or its no good. They invented football if you didn't know(Rutgers is the birthplace of college football for the people who actually know what they are talking about), and they will beat your team solely because they are just too good, and if you do beat Nebraska, well to them they beat themselves therefore they really never lost.