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What will next year's offense look like? Given the lack of returning studs on the OLine, I'm guessing lots of quick passes!

I haven't seen a 'BTen' team come into Kinnick in over 15 years with Special Teams as bad as Washington's were yesterday. The blocked FG never got more than 7 ft off the ground. Their punter's hang-time was terrible. Kickoffs were all short and returnable. Punt & kickoff coverage was subpar...

Like Iowa's offense, the in-game experience at Kinnick has gotten pretty stale. The same pregame rituals, the predictable intros of various sports teams during timeouts, the predictable interview with the Honorary Captain on the field, blah blah blah. They have added a few fireworks, I guess...

I have no idea what the coaches are thinking, but my guess is: 1) they feel McNamara is a better thrower than Sullivan; and 2) they've been able to successfully run the ball vs most teams thus far, and by adding a QB whose strength is running it may encourage defenses to crowd the LOS even...

...as it was last year, when the Hawks went 6-1 in one-score games. This year they're 0-1. How the rest of the close games remaining this season play out -- and I expect there to be many -- will define this season, as it did last season.

Lots of fans thought Ferentz would leave at the end of last season, after his son was fired. I was pretty confident he wouldn't be derailed by that -- his health was good and he still truly seemed to love the game. But I feel differently now. Going into this season expectations for this team...

Not to justify, but I think in this era of running up scores to impact national ranking -- especially now that rankings will determine your opponent in the 12-team playoff -- I think Iowa coaches quite probably were concerned if they didn't make the 1st down, the Buckeyes would continue to run...

Week 7: Army

Yeah, they absolutely killed themselves in their two losses. Vs Rutgers on the road they put up 550 yds of offense vs a solid D, but lost due to stupid penalties which cost them 7 pts and gave Rutgers 2 scores...AND, they collapsed in the red zone. All self-inflicted stuff, which they cleaned...

Crickets.

A great QB would help, but I'm not sure Chuck Long would be a standout running this offense -- the college game has changed so much. It's almost impossible to be an elite college team without a dual-threat QB who can extend plays with his feet or run efficiently. And this holds true for the...

What's odd about the whole thing is that, if I'm correct Iowa on a typical punt lines up 3 'blockers' between the LOS and the punter. In this case they lined up with just 1 'blocker', who was closer to the LOS than the usual 'blockers'. That seems like a rather obvious 'tip' that a fake is...

Nope. But my oldest son attended undergrad there, and my youngest graduated from UI med school.

Sparty's QB looked really, really bad last night. Held onto the ball long enough to have a sandwich back there...but it was Oregon's Dline who had him for lunch. I literally lost track of how many sacks he took. With 6 min remaining they brought in their backup QB, a transfer who had a very...

Cignetti reminds me of Hayden Fry -- no problem transferring success at a lower level to the highest level of competition. Confidence isn't cocky if you can back it up.

Week 6: Penn State

I thought I read somewhere that the media members picked the Hawks to finish 11th in the BTen this season.

Yeah, but the difference with out-of-bounds calls is the foot leaves a specific imprint that is viewable from views that don't have a straight line-of-sight. It would be different if out-of-bounds calls involved an arm or head extending past the plane of the out-of-bounds line -- as I believe...

Disagree with letting penalties go uncalled. I'm pretty sick of watching the amount of holding that goes on in college football every play, every game. They're not blocking, what they're doing is called sumo wrestling. If they want to sumo, fine, move to Japan. I realize it's not the players...

To Fry's original question, there's no good reason to not review onside kicks, other than they would need to have a camera looking directly across every 5 yd marker to get a completely accurate video picture. And you couldn't just have one camera looking across the 35 yd lines, in case of 5 or...