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Week 1: Texas Week 2: Arkansas Week 3: Iowa Week 4: Miami (Florida) Week 5: Oklahoma (sorry Cyclone fans)

Sparty is going to provide a tougher test that most folks think. Their defense harrassed one of the best offenses in the BTen last Saturday, and despite Maryland getting 5 turnovers they only put 31 pts on the board. Sparty's offense put up 26 First Downs (!) vs a BTen defense & outgained the...

In answer to the original question: Hell yeah!

I too thought Wisky looked shaky enough at the start of the season to lose perhaps 3 BTen games this year. But watching them dismantle Purdue last week changed my mind...they're starting to get the hang of their new offense, and I don't see them losing to any West Division teams this year. The...

Agreed. When we have the opponent in 3rd and 6, have to stop giving 8-10 yds of cushion to 3 of 4 WRs. I know Phil desperately didn't want to give up a home-run TD pass in that game, but man, that 2nd half was painful to watch. Most disturbing was when Penn State's 2nd Team offense entered...

Oh, I think it will happen, likely sooner rather than later. I doubt that it will expand beyond position groups, but there's no reason to think an OLine, or DLine, or WR group of recruits won't get together to make some serious cash. A lot of the best players know each other from camps over the...

Week 1: Texas Week 2: Arkansas Week 3: Iowa Week 4: Miami (Florida)

Ha. For some reason I didn't attend that game in-person, but vividly remember watching it on the tube. I'd already given up on the Hawks that year, I think. Christensen was indeed terrible that day, and I still have images of him in my mind during that game throwing a number of passes into...

Like I said, I don't necessarily believe in conspiracies. But it IS a helluva coincidence. I don't know that firing a sexist, irresponsible coach is that bad of a look for a university. And if Tucker's buyout is close to $80 million, you can do a helluva media campaign to polish your...

Yeah, Western Michigan delivered probably the most disheartening blow to the Hawks I can remember, I think it was back in 2000. My friend and rabid Hawk fan came out from Hawaii to catch two consecutive home games vs Iowa St. and W.Michigan. The Hawks lost both. Completely dispiriting, and...

This week's an easy one... Week 3: Iowa

I'm not typically a conspiracy kind of guy, but is it coincidence that two BTen coaches -- Fitzgerald and Tucker -- have abuse allegations suddenly appear out of nowhere when it's obvious the higher-ups in their administrations want to get rid of them for poor on-field performance, without...

Anybody hear about the status of starting CB Harris?? Was it ever official that he had a 2-game gambling suspension? I never heard anything publicly. Is he expected back to W.Michigan?

Yanda's block would be a clear 'targeting' call these days, cause ya can't do blind-side blocks like that anymore.

Agreed, if the run game fails as it did vs a smallish Utah St. defense at Ames and vs Western Michigan, there's no use bashing our heads against the wall. Let a QB who has some skills sit back in the pocket and throw the ball 80% of the snaps -- running just enough to keep the defense honest...

Week 1: Texas Week 2: Arkansas

It certainly showed up in total yards gained in the 2nd half. Before Iowa put in their 2nd team offense and defense 1/2 way through the 4th quarter, the Aggies outgained Iowa's offense roughly 140-110 in the 3rd qtr and first 1/2 of the 4th. And that wasn't because Iowa's playcalling got...

"There's just no way the O-line is 2.4 ypc bad. 3.something maybe. But not 2.4." I was there in person. It's that bad. They weren't missing assignments as much as just not having the strength or push to move anybody -- even tho they were bigger and taller than Utah St's DLine across the...

I was disappointed to see Iowa's defense being out-schemed in the 2nd half. The Aggies figured out if they came out with a 1 back set with their WRs set out wide, and Iowa was in their 4-2-5 defense, if they sent their lone RB in motion toward a sideline, 1 of Iowa's 2 LBs would run toward the...

My seat at Kinnick is in Row 15, and I can tell you, the Utah St. D-line was shorter and probably 30 lbs lighter per man than Iowa's OLine, yet the Hawks were getting absolutely ZERO push off the LOS. It didn't matter if it was 1st down or 4th down -- on nearly every run play the LOS was...