Bye Week Revised Season Predictions

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HawkIPA

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5 games in, bye week is upon us, predict the W/L from here on out.

Indiana- W 31-20

@Maryland- L 27-21, this will be a great test for the Iowa secondary who is getting better each week.

NU- W 27-14, F U Fitz.

@Minny W 20-14, Yeah Minny rolled Michigan today but Michigan is terrible. Iowa matches up extremely well with the Gophs, just watch last years film. Plus lately, Iowa on the road>Iowa at home.

@Illinois W 31-21, Wes Lunt was injured tonight in Lincoln although I am not sure of the extent. Illinois defense is bad.

Wisky L 24-20, I just don't think Iowa goes 10-2.

Nebraska W 23-20, A late sack and strip by LTP seals the win.

I don't know if 6-2 will be enough to get to Indy. I do know to not expect any blowouts this year.
 
There is no margin for error with an offense ceiling of 20-24 points

Win IU

Lose at Maryland

Lose at home to NU... because this game is always feels like the ISU game

Win at Minny

Win Illinois

Hope to split Wisc and Neb
 
I cant predict scores on this Iowa team, ISU gave up 35 to NDSU, 30+ to KState, and now 50+ to baylor. And we only score 17.

I just cant pick the hawks because the offense might not show up even worse than they sometimes dont show up.

I see us going 4-3 the rest of the way and 8-4 overall.

I think this team can win the rest of them but if the offense was more explosive I might say bank on it.
 
After Indiana things get much more difficult for Iowa and we have to improve on both sides of the ball. If nothing changes this is how I see it finishing. Iowa struggling to score points and that not good..

Indiana- W 23-12

@Maryland- L 31-21

NU- W 20-13

@Minny L 27-20

@Illinois W 20- 17

Wisky L 31-17

Nebraska L 40-20


I say 7-5. Right now I honestly don't know how Iowa wins the last 2 games, some of you are extremely optimistic.
 
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The only change is that a few other teams need to lose for Iowa to make the playoff and be national champions.
 
uihawk82 said:
I cant predict scores on this Iowa team, ISU gave up 35 to NDSU, 30+ to KState, and now 50+ to baylor. And we only score 17.

I just cant pick the hawks because the offense might not show up even worse than they sometimes dont show up.

I see us going 4-3 the rest of the way and 8-4 overall.

I think this team can win the rest of them but if the offense was more explosive I might say bank on it.
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I'm pretty sure ISU held Baylor under 50. That defense is pretty porous. FIRE GREG DAVIS.
 
HawkPrdatr40 said:
After Indiana things get much more difficult for Iowa and we have to improve on both sides of the ball. If nothing changes this is how I see it finishing. Iowa struggling to score points and that not good..

Indiana- W 23-12

@Maryland- L 31-21

NU- W 20-13

@Minny L 27-20

@Illinois W 20- 17

Wisky L 31-17

Nebraska L 40-20


I say 7-5. Right now I honestly don't know how Iowa wins the last 2 games, some of you are extremely optimistic.
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It's hard to read. This team has a lot of execution errors similar to what we saw back in the early Ferentz years that got cleaned up and left us nearly unbeatable in November. But I'm also worried about the o-line and LBs just not being that good. Not to mention the QB situation. If we can put together a complete game, I think we can hang with Nebraska and Wisconsin, but if we play them like we've played the first half the past two weeks, we will get destroyed. We would get completely shredded by a good QB, but thankfully we don't face one this year, so every game is within reach, but I agree that after today's performance, barring some major improvement in the bye weeks, we are looking at a 6 or 7 win team.
 
okeefe4prez said:
It's hard to read. This team has a lot of execution errors similar to what we saw back in the early Ferentz years that got cleaned up and left us nearly unbeatable in November. But I'm also worried about the o-line and LBs just not being that good. Not to mention the QB situation. If we can put together a complete game, I think we can hang with Nebraska and Wisconsin, but if we play them like we've played the first half the past two weeks, we will get destroyed. We would get completely shredded by a good QB, but thankfully we don't face one this year, so every game is within reach, but I agree that after today's performance, barring some major improvement in the bye weeks, we are looking at a 6 or 7 win team.
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Spot on! I agree..
 
uihawk82 said:
I cant predict scores on this Iowa team, ISU gave up 35 to NDSU, 30+ to KState, and now 50+ to baylor. And we only score 17.

I just cant pick the hawks because the offense might not show up even worse than they sometimes dont show up.

I see us going 4-3 the rest of the way and 8-4 overall.

I think this team can win the rest of them but if the offense was more explosive I might say bank on it.
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It takes one hell of a coaching staff to only score 17 vs ISU.
 
As usual I see the defense especially the secondary keeping us in all these games. If the offense ever decides to play an entire game the points will come to run the table.
This may be a year where 2 bye weeks is a good thing. Realistically I see a topside of 9-3 and a bottom of 7-5. If I were a betting man I'd put $$ on the former.
 
8-4 or 7-5. Losses in one of the next 2, as well as both Wisco and Nebraska. Don't foregt that we have played TERRIBLE at Kinnick Stadium the last few years. We generally look much better on the road. I had 8-4 before the season, and they're significantly worse than I expected on offense and slightly better on defense. In 20 quarters of football this year, Iowa has looked competent for about 3 of them. I don't know which is more surprising, that this team has managed to get to 4-1 while looking like complete garbage 80% of the time, or that they managed to blow a 5-0 record against this Special Olympics schedule.
 
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uihawk82 said:
I cant predict scores on this Iowa team, ISU gave up 35 to NDSU, 30+ to KState, and now 50+ to baylor. And we only score 17.

I just cant pick the hawks because the offense might not show up even worse than they sometimes dont show up.

I see us going 4-3 the rest of the way and 8-4 overall.

I think this team can win the rest of them but if the offense was more explosive I might say bank on it.
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I think it's tough to call but Id say 8-4 also.
 
No change for me - been saying 7-5 for months, for basically the same reasons I expected before the season.

1) LB's: They are worse than expected -- close to the worst in Ferentz era, challenging the mid 2006-07 units. Granted, they are really young but, wow, there's a huge gap between what is expected of them and what they are capable of to get off the field. Competent offenses are going to tear them apart and, unfortunately, 6 of 7 remaining teams have more than competent offenses.

2) DL is what it is -- not spectacular but solid. I still say this holds true for Davis and the interior but the ends, especially Ott, are really blowing up to make this unit more complete and developing toward better than expected. They, along with the DB's, have to keep stepping it up to find ways to pressure the QB so the LB's aren't abused.

3) Impotent offense is impotent and offensive. Considering the preseason hype, the OL is a major disappointment. The RB by committee strategy continues to disrupt some of the OL / RB chemistry. Overall strategy continues to be sideways in a phone booth rather than using vertical space.
It's not even a debate that CJB continues as the starter. It took a half to settle in and but he showed why his moxie and abilities give the offense a much better chance to keep moving. He could be very Ricky-esque, with legs, the more reps he gets. Hopefully the WR drops were simply adjusting to CJ's ball and not a developing issue.
Fortunate (Iowa gets a "break") that it was all against a very bad Purdue team and now a bye to continue to work out the kinks, timing and chemistry.

The inexcusable loss to ISU wasn't part of my preseason 7-5, however, there are opportunities to offset it between Indiana, NwU, at Minny and at Illannoy.

Ultimately, it comes down to JR and CJB and whether the emphasis shifts to more vertical or stays horizontal.
With CJB, I'll go 7-5 and a ceiling of 9-3:

Indiana - toss up; leaning W
@ Maryland - toss up; likely L
NwU - toss up; leaning W
@ Minny - toss up; leaning L
@ Illannoy - toss up; leaning W
Wisconsin - L; might contain Gordon, might contain McEvoy, might contain Clement but not all 3.
Nebraska - L; might contain Abdullah and maybe by then the LB's can handle Armstrong.

With JR, 6-6 with a ceiling of 7-5.
 
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