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After listening to one of Miller and Deace's podcasts, I think the recipe to getting back on track is to run run run. Simply put, it's what this roster is designed to do. It's easy to want to use the "shiny toy" that is CJ Beathard, but the receivers have not grown up enough yet and the...

There are only so many balls to go around and once again, only about 2 and half quarters of meaningful offensive snaps. I appreciate his skill set, but I personally think Wadley and Daniels are better RB's right now. I do think we'll see more of him directly producing as the season goes on and I...

I didn't have a problem with him naming Rudock the starter over CJ going into the 2014 season. What was frustrating was that Rudock didn't get off to a great start and then when CJ went in for Jake against Pitt, it looked like the entire team was rejuvenated. CJ was great in that game. I think...

ACC: Most of the teams here did what they were supposed to do. I'd be a little nervous about Clemson though. I didn't think much of it when they didn't look great at Auburn, but they did not look very crisp against Troy. This has me wondering where their heads are at right now. With that said...

Every reasonable defensive philosophy can work with ideal personnel and looks great when executed well. On the flip side, any defensive philosophy can look terrible without solid personnel and when it's not working. Overall I feel Iowa has a sound defensive philosophy in X's and O's although...

The flip side of this is blitzing too much and getting burned like Notre Dame did against Texas.

Hawkfnntn hit the nail on the head I think. I wouldn't know anything about Mitchell being in Ferentz's doghouse personally, but they did only have nine 3rd downs on offense. They also only ran about 45 or so 1st team snaps as well and considering Daniels and Wadley only combined for only 22...

ACC: I'd consider this week a positive overall for the ACC. The conferences two main giants came away with wins against challenging opponents. However, the big victory for the conference is that with the exception of Virginia, the conferences other teams avoided the ugly early season upsets that...

The SEC looked human, but not terrible today. LSU fell flat on the face and Mississippi State gave one away, but Bama rolled, Texas A&M beat one of the Pac 12's top 2-3 teams (maybe top team), and Georgia beat one of the ACC's best teams. This doesn't mention that Auburn (preseason picked to do...

Tommy is an interesting player. He isn't inconsistent from game to game or even half to half. He's inconsistent on a drive to drive or even play to play basis. I personally wouldn't feel great if he was Iowa's QB and I feel like Iowa's biggest edge vs. Nebraska is CJ over Tommy. Flip the QB's...

I'm going to try and play devils advocate here and talk from the Nebraska point of view which I'm not advocating for but I'm between classes and bored so here I go. 1) Riley is a pretty solid coach. He had a winning record at Oregon State in about a decade and a half period which is no small...

You can list a number of things but it can all be summed up as times have changed. They can't bank on facilities anymore because almost anybody who is anybody has high quality facilities. Coaching advantages have gone away in part because there are more great coaches at different places. The...

Great point Guffus. And when we need a miracle 3 minute stretch to beat Ball State at home, that win has almost no value. It actually felt like a loss after watching it.

And you still haven't answered the question about are all P5 teams equal. If Iowa State was even an average football program, I can start to see your point about maybe not being able to add another P5 opponent. But when you say playing 10-11 P5 teams vs. 9-10 P5 teams, you have to put that 10-11...

Clemson and Alabama "deserved" to be in the playoff because they played Notre Dame and Wisconsin respectively in their out of conference schedules and they got victories. Wanna go on the flip side of the Stanford vs. Northwestern matchup. A win over NW and Stanford boots Oklahoma from the...

Iowa also gets the benefit of playing in what will probably be he historically weaker division in the Big 10 as well. That to me is another reason why you could stomach adding another P5 team to the out of conference schedule along with Iowa State.

I know this has nothing to do with today, but in 10-15 years the last bit of expansion will be done and I think we'll see a college football landscape where the Power 5 (or Power 4) break away from the group of 5 and exclusively play each other. Scheduling complications will be a thing of the...

Going back to the question I asked earlier, are all P5 teams created equal? So with the Iowa State game, we will be playing 10 P5 games a year before scheduling anybody else. But Iowa State isn't even an average P5 school. Now I know they've had a pretty solid amount of success in the Ferentz...

I mentioned earlier that I felt the future conference TV money could off set the loss in revenue at the gate. Emphasis on the word could because I don't have the numbers in front of me so I'll concede that I could be wrong. But no, that is not a point I was missing and one that I had addressed.

Yeah I do know that. We've had a series with both Arizona schools and a couple of series with Pittsburgh in the past dozen years or so. My posts are regarding future schedules.