EstronHawk
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Penn St and Iowa, the two best teams in the Big 10 right now?
Let me ask you this?
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ibahawkeye
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I wouldn't want to play OSU. We just never match up well with the Buckeyes.
PSU deserves to be on the list but I'd still love another shot at these guys. I bet our guys would love to have another shot too.
PSU deserves to be on the list but I'd still love another shot at these guys. I bet our guys would love to have another shot too.
Iowa's lack of a good passing game, not a great passing game, but just a good passing game does not make them one of the top two. The OLine cant protect the qb very well, receivers dont consistently get open, and CJ is off and on.
But the way the Hawks are playing now they can beat anyone in the league.
But the way the Hawks are playing now they can beat anyone in the league.
IAHAWK1982
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I would like to play Ohio State. I know they have great athletes, but they are not physical at all. Not much of a running game and their passing game isn't very good either. If you don't turn the ball over you can play with them. With the way Iowa is playing defense and running the football right now I think we could beat them.
proudhawkfan21
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I think 5th is RIGHT on the money.
HawkeyeDenis
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I don't think Iowa could repeat their win against Michigan. It was Iowa catching Michigan on a bad day. Ohio State would be a big problem for Iowa.
WinOneThisCentury
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Remember guys, we beat Michigan. OSU isn't a great team...yet. I'm positive the Committee is going to get them in somehow, and they are going to get matched up with Alabama and they are going to get torched. Their offensive line gave up 8 sacks to Michigan...they better have an ambulance ready for Barrett if they play Alabama. They are so young...that I think you can run the ball on them also. We are as physical right now as both OSU and Michigan in the trenches and we have BETTER running backs than both of them. We are going to run the ball on anyone. We have found our identity. Funny, if your advantage is running the ball and you then commit to doing it...well it helps you win. God damn Greg Davis. We were more interested in being balanced with a shitty passing game. Nice work there.
Now, at WR, we are no where close to Michigan or OSU...we aren't even in the league with their WR. We would have been able to run the ball on OSU yesterday.
Now, at WR, we are no where close to Michigan or OSU...we aren't even in the league with their WR. We would have been able to run the ball on OSU yesterday.
HawkeyeWalker
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um. no. One of them might be, maybe.
HawkeyeWalker
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Even an Average passing game has us at 10-2, maybe 11-1.
HawkeyeWalker
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We have a lease on 5th in the conference, with an option to buy 4th.
HomerChampless
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Realize an average Iowa offensive line with average pass protection or an exceptional Iowa defense (a Wisconsin-like, lights out defense) would've gotten a 10 or 11 win season this year.
Yes it is incredible how the passing game went from average before Vandy's injury to poor. The pass protection was pretty anemic all season and I still cant understand how on many pass plays we have almost all the receivers the same distance downfield. I have 3 receivers on go routes, 3 going 20 yards or , all of them going 5 yards causing a lot of congestion and hardly ever an easy dump off safety valve pass for CJ.
And as poorly as Wadley and Leshun pass block sometimes it would be better to send them out toward the sideline to take a defender with them or create a mistake and a big play dump off.
blubberhawk
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do not put us in a group with Nebraska. 40-10 puts us in a different group than Little Red.
It was a dominating win but Nebraska's QB was hurt. He was no running threat and missed wide open WRs down field which was a likely result of hurrying throws. Plus Nebraska didn't lose to NDSU and NW type teams at home. They lost to two really good/great teams on the road and good team on the road.
Iowa won, they're the better team but Nebraska its much closer to Iowa than the 40-10 result. Much like Iowa is closer to PSU than the result of 41-14.
