BIG TEN perspective

hawkdrummer1

hawkdrummer1

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so...how'd we do compared to the rest of the conference

Iowa 28 MO St -14 (FCS team)

Michigan-41 NDame-30
Illinois- 45 Cincinnati -17
Penn St-45 (you know, that team that was shelled by sanctions) EMich-7
Michigan St-21 South Florida-6
Wisconsin-48 Tenn Tech-0
Ohio St-42 San Diego St-7
Nebraska-56 S Miss-13
Northwestern-48 Syracuse-27
Minnesota-44 NMSt-21 (on the road)
Purdue-21 IndSt-14 (that "rivalry" thing is starting to make sense)

9 out of 10...much bigger victories. all against FBS teams.

Navy-41 Indiana-35 still a basketball school
 
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B1G is back !

Let's be really really real though, very few of those teams had a defense like The Missouri State.

Do you have total yard stats too?
 
Looking like another long year unless there is dramatic improvement. Don't think I will make it back for my one game this year.
 
We ended up very, VERY lucky that we don't play PSU, Ind, or Ill this year. Those teams would be out for blood. We actually have 3 manageable B1G games, plus Clown U and WMU. We could actually win 2 or 3 games this year, which is more than I thought last week.
 
More perspective. Arkansas was losing to Samford late in the 3rd but eked out the win. Select post-game comments from their Scout board:

"I'm thinking 4-8 again at this point. This is bad."

"Most disappointing was the OL. Could not dominate a weak opponent for the 1st 3 quarters. Not good."

"Chicken Little? We were down to SAMFORD AT HOME in the second half. Samford is not a "solid team". Our OL and DL got beat and handily at times for better than half the game against SAMFORD. I thought this team was a 6 win team before the season started. Right now, I doubt that to be the case... You shouldn't need to struggle, much less trail SAM-FREAKING-FORD."

"This isn't an upstart DII team. We will improve and with a couple of years of improved recruiting we'll be headed the way we all hoped. But without significant improvement, I think next week might realistically be 1 of our last 2 victories this year."

"This is really sad.... I hope nobody try's to sugarcoat this with excuses."
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MOAR BIELEMA! COME TO IOWA AND SAVE US FROM KERTZ!
 
Billso said:
More perspective. Arkansas was losing to Samford late in the 3rd but eked out the win. Select post-game comments from their Scout board:



MOAR BIELEMA! COME TO IOWA AND SAVE US FROM KERTZ!
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Agreed. 3 straight big ten championships is definitely something I'm not interested in. Arkansas can keep him.
 
Setting aside all the negativity on this message board Iowa's football team can have success. Here is an assessment of some of our future conference opponents:


  • Michigan State: Offensively they are a version of the 2012 Hawkeyes. The defense scored 14 of their 21 points on Saturday. Solid defense but don't count on scoring 14 points per game.
  • Purdue: Eked out a win against Indiana State who was beaten by Indiana like a drum.
  • Minnesota: Two wins, one FCS and one against that historic loser NM State. Nothing proven other than it can play OK against lower echelon teams.
  • Wisconsin: Two home game blowouts against lower echelon teams. Nothing proven.
  • Nebraska: Hung on against Wyoming and whooped up on that power house Southern Mississippi. Has defensive issues.
OK, the teams that look like gang busters:
  • Ohio State - Yeah they have talent but they have a few issues on defense when they play the upper echelon teams.
  • Michigan - About the same as OSU
  • Northwestern - There offense is really clicking. They have some defense issues.

For our Hawkeyes the tasks is to get better at executing in the passing game (i.e. dropped passes) and eliminating penalties. On defense the tasks is getting more pressure on the QB on passing downs. At least they used some blitzes on Saturday. Iowa almost doubled the possession time and ran 88 plays. I'd argue that Iowa is degrees better than 2012. The defense has done well. I put at least 10 of N Ill points on the offense and 7 of Mo States on the offense.
 
HawkeyeWalker said:
Its a lot of points for any team. 38 to 14 looks better than 28 to 14, no?
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Agreed Walker. We left a lot of points out there and if we get those 10, this thread isn't even started.

We dominated stats and a large portion of the game. Their two drives in the 2nd half were helped by penalties (which kept the game closer than it should've been-11 total), otherwise this game wasn't as close as the score suggests.
 
eyekwah said:
...For our Hawkeyes the tasks is to get better at executing in the passing game (i.e. dropped passes) and eliminating penalties. On defense the tasks is getting more pressure on the QB on passing downs. At least they used some blitzes on Saturday. Iowa almost doubled the possession time and ran 88 plays. I'd argue that Iowa is degrees better than 2012. The defense has done well. I put at least 10 of N Ill points on the offense and 7 of Mo States on the offense.
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Good summary and a good assessment of the B!G. As it looks now Whisky will be the only foe that will be able to run on this DL. The Hawks are playing the contain game well so mobile QBs won't have success rushing like they have been in the last few years. That's the good, the bad is I don't think this DL will be able to pressure QBs and I don't think the DBs are up to the task of covering when we send a LB to pressure the QB. The Norm era is gone at Iowa so teams are going to score over the top. Get used to it.

Therefore the best defense we can have is an O that is a clock eating monster. The running game in total is the 2nd best in the conference right now. It's been a long time since Iowa could claim that stat (we have had individuals near/at the top but not the team). This O should have scored 38 Saturday, 45 if we got the correct spot. JR is going to make mistakes so get used to some INTs. We gave up 50 or more yards through the air due to dropped, catchable passes Saturday. The coaching staff needs to look at who is actually catching passes in games and play them. Redzone TD success was at 60% and that isn't good enough. 80% is the bare minimum because opposing QBs are going to be completing 60% of their passes and, by inference, putting themselves in scoring position on 60% of their drives. How many of those over the top plays go all the way and how many end up inside of the 20 is hard to predict.

So the question in my mind is will this D be able to deny redzone TDs more than 50% of the time? If they can then this team can win some games.
 
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