Fans know that the Iowa football team and Iowa State are rivals. The week leading up to the game is called Hate Week.
Maybe adding more to the inferiority complex of our friends to the West, Iowa State is just generic ‘State’, probably from the Dr. Pepper Fansville commercials, without Iowa.
One of the more entertaining parts about this rivalry (and all rivalries for that matter) are the talking points that follow the game itself. Sometimes these form into the losing party’s excuses. Other times, the conversation is a mere continuation of rivalry trash talk.
I love some good trash talk.