... and a No. 2 ranking among BCS computers, the Iowa Athletic Department has seen fit to produce a press release hyping Iowa football.

Lobbying for your team is a bit classless (you hear that, Mack Brown?), but not that unusual. After all, the SEC is basically a non-stop hype machine already talking about having a rematch of the SEC title game for the BCS title.

Determining an accurate schedule difficulty because a simple opponent win-loss total is misleading, given the large number of out-of-conference (OOC) games against FCS, MAC, and Sun Belt schools.

A better way is to look at opponents' wins, especially wins over BCS schools out-of-conference. That way, it is relatively easy to see that Iowa has played a schedule versu...

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