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Parker has a pattern of playing the 1st halves of games pretty vanilla, then making adjustments and bringing more blitzes the 2nd half. I've always assumed he does that to prevent opponents from being able to make halftime adjustments to Iowa's blitz schemes. But Saturday's game is one of...

I suspect that's not a coincidence -- if you remember the Hawks were in their rare gray uniforms when they thumped the Bucks 55-24 at Kinnick.

A couple nights ago I dreampt Iowa won this game 13-10. Of course I have a lot of really good sex dreams too, and none of those come true either.

Fickell's seat has got to be getting warm over in Madison. Up 24-21, 4th and 1/2 yd on the USC 34 mid-3rd quarter, he foregoes a 50 yd FG and lines up in a shotgun formation and they get stuffed. The Trojans never looked back after that, and won going away. USC's WRs have to be one of the Top...

OUCH!

Watching that game, all I could think of is what Washington players and coaches have thought as they prepared for NW and Rutgers' offenses, with Iowa on deck: "Are ALL BTen offenses this predictable and boring??" I honestly think Iowa would find it easier sledding vs Rutgers than the Huskies...

Not so sure about Washington. They put up nearly 500 yds vs a solid Rutgers defense and pretty much moved the ball at will. They've got some guys who can't tackle in their secondary -- which hopefully bodes well for Kaleb and the Hawks -- but if not for 3-4 stupid personal foul penalties which...

Hard to believe just 10 years after that I caught Springsteen at Winterland in SF in Dec. at the end of his 'Darkness on the Edge of Night' tour. That old place was literally shakin'!

Man, I hadn't heard that band in a LONG time!

Week 5: Iowa State

Colby is the biggest surprise to me, in a negative way. He came out of h.s. with all the tools to be an exceptional OLineman. To be fair, he was thrust into a starting role at guard, then tackle I believe as a Fr, far before he was ready. But as a 3-4 year starter, the time for excuses is...

Rhule is quickly becoming a coach that is easy to dislike. Every second a camera is on him during a game he is ENDLESSLY chirping into a ref's ear, complaining, badgering, complaining, badgering, complaining. God, give it a REST. Annoying beyond belief. Perhaps that Jr. High stuff worked in...

Minny is still a run-first team, and they've got a good RB...again. Look for them to chew up the clock, and have a number of long drives vs Iowa's renewed 'bend but don't break' defense. MN's defense will slow down Iowa's run game, but Lester will keep probing until he finds something that...

Week 4: Indiana

Week 3: Miami (FL)

I noticed this as well. For about the last 45 minutes, Trump was allowed to have the last word on just about every question asked, except for one, that I can think of. He figured out the moderators (or whoever was controlling the mics) wouldn't shut his mic down when Harris got done speaking...

This. Even just lining up with trips near one sideline removes 3 defenders from the LOS box and improves the chances for a successful run.

It absolutely was a factor. I haven't really liked the new 2 min timeout, both watching games on TV and in-person at Kinnick. If both teams hold onto their 3 second half timeouts until the end -- as Iowa and ISU did -- that basically means fans are likely to be subjected to 7, that's correct...

Going for the 2pt conversion with over 4 min remaining in the 3rd quarter made no sense. Iowa had run what, 7 plays from that place on the field up to that point, and 6 of them had been unsuccessful. The odds of a successful 2 pt conversion were 1 in 7 at best. I turned to my neighbor at...

When you have an elite-level defense returning, your entire OLine returning, perhaps the best RB room in program history -- I don't think expectations were unrealistic given the lightness of Iowa's schedule. "Cade knows he can play better" is an odd think to suggest. In his head, maybe. In...