I'll toss in the 2010 Hawkeyes as another fizzle example.
Everybody back after their Orange Bowl win and we way way underformed on the way to an 8-5 record.
https://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/Iowa.htm
Hell, we gave away the Indy game. They only had 13 pts until that last debacle TD. And they're blowing people away also.
I think Iowa puts a defensive lock-hold on the Ducks and they won't have an answer.
https://youtu.be/3kx24YtwPKA
So many "best vocalist in rock music" nominees to choose from.
Plant, Jagger, Rose, Tyler, Presley, Dio, Morrison, Seger, Grohl, Osbourne, Daltrey
This is mine.
If Iowa wins out...
Iowa will have played 3/4 of last year's B1G CFP teams (granted, all at home)
And beaten 2/3...and if the QB isn't injured late in the 4th quarter, we'd have beaten Indy (national commenators have mentioned this).
And will have won two tough road games (@ USC and...
Reminds me a great deal of Chuck Long.
Both had all the tools, all the confidence, all the pedigree, all the good college coaching.
Both were drafted by loser organizations. Long was doomed when Detroit went to the "run and shoot" offense that was about a 3 year flash in the pan offense...
Gone baby gone
PSU
LSU
Florida
Okie State
Arkansas
VA Tech
UAB
Oregon State
UCLA
Colorado State
On the ventilator
Wisky
FSU
Auburn
MSU
North Carolina
O$U and Indiana have made several ex-coaches rich this year..