CFN prediciting 7-5 for Iowa

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Sooby

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The way Michigan, Connie and Debbie are playing, it's hard to argue.
Not sure about Penn State, but Iowa, is, historically, brutal, after a bye week.

Sept. 3 Miami Univ. W 45-21
Sept. 10 Iowa State W 42-3
Sept. 17 North Dakota State L 23-21
Sept. 24 at Rutgers W 14-7
Oct. 1 Northwestern W
Oct. 8 at Minnesota W
Oct. 15 at Purdue W
Oct. 22 Wisconsin L
Oct. 29 OPEN DATE
Nov. 5 at Penn State L
Nov. 12 Michigan L
Nov. 19 at Illinois W
Nov. 25 Nebraska L
 
Scooby said:
The way Michigan, Connie and Debbie are playing, it's hard to argue.
Not sure about Penn State, but Iowa, is, historically, brutal, after a bye week.

Sept. 3 Miami Univ. W 45-21
Sept. 10 Iowa State W 42-3
Sept. 17 North Dakota State L 23-21
Sept. 24 at Rutgers W 14-7
Oct. 1 Northwestern W
Oct. 8 at Minnesota W
Oct. 15 at Purdue W
Oct. 22 Wisconsin L
Oct. 29 OPEN DATE
Nov. 5 at Penn State L
Nov. 12 Michigan L
Nov. 19 at Illinois W
Nov. 25 Nebraska L
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By now this has to be on the bulletin board. Probably good for an extra win . . . possibly two.
 
I think the Hawks beat Wisconsin. Michigan State had a bad game (oh yes, it happens to other teams besides Iowa), plus their big win over Notre Dame suddenly doesn't look so big. Not that beating MSU in East Lansing is a cakewalk, it's just not as impressive in retrospect as it was thought to be before the game. Penn State is not your father's Penn State. Nebraska looks good, so that will be a tough game, glad it's at home this year. Michigan - the best I can offer on that one is that KF gets his team up to play Michigan more than any team, with the possible exception of Penn State. I don't see 4 losses there.
 
IMHO, ff Iowa beats Northwestern, Minny, and Purdue, they will do better than 7-5 (also need to be healthy). I think I would favor Iowa over Wisky in that scenario, provided Wisky loses its next two games (Michigan and OSU). I think at Penn St and Nebraska are 50-50 games if the above happens at worse. Illinois a win and Michigan a probable loss (40-60).

I think these next 3 games are key to get back on track and get prepared for the bigger challenges. But, if Iowa can't beat the mildcats, Goofy, and Purdon't, well.......5,6, or 7 wins here we come at best.
 
HaydenHawk56 said:
IMHO, ff Iowa beats Northwestern, Minny, and Purdue, they will do better than 7-5 (also need to be healthy). I think I would favor Iowa over Wisky in that scenario, provided Wisky loses its next two games (Michigan and OSU). I think at Penn St and Nebraska are 50-50 games if the above happens at worse. Illinois a win and Michigan a probable loss (40-60).

I think these next 3 games are key to get back on track and get prepared for the bigger challenges. But, if Iowa can't beat the mildcats, Goofy, and Purdon't, well.......5,6, or 7 wins here we come at best.
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Two years ago Minny layed 50 points on us there. This year's Iowa team has the exact same feel as that 2014 team. Minny actually has a physical O-Line and runs the ball effectively something we have not stopped defensively in some time. Their QB has lit us up the last 2 years also. So I'm not sure how we can see this as a W at all. PSU is not great but probably beats us out there. I see losses to Minny, PSU, Wisky, Michigan for sure. That's 5 right there if nothing else goes wrong.

Bottom line is you cannot lose to an FCS team and think you are not going to have major problems down the road when the competition ramps up. Hope to be wrong but I do not like the vibe of this group.
 
Oh, no question, Iowa can lose to MInny (I was there at Minny when that happened, long game, very cold, rude Minny fans). I think right now, that can happen for sure. But, I do think, if Iowa can win the next 3 and get back on track, they can do better than 7-5. I'm not sure that will happen though.
 
It is a crap shoot at this point because we have no idea who this team is. If this team allows opponents to dink and dunk, run up the gut, double our time of possession and run 100 plays a game, we could and should lose all of them. However, if this team finds its offensive identity, learns how to use its weapons to get on the scoreboard first, get off the field on third downs, control the clock and make the other team one dimensional, we could and should win them all. We are equally capable of achieving both of those feats and it is anybody's guess as to which one shows up.

I will say though that the psyche of this team appears fragile, like 2010 fragile. If we lose another game we shouldn't then I can see this crowd packing it in. I have yet to see the fire from this team that actually looks like they care about being there, and that is the most telling part to me.
 
dirtwrap said:
It is a crap shoot at this point because we have no idea who this team is. If this team allows opponents to dink and dunk, run up the gut, double our time of possession and run 100 plays a game, we could and should lose all of them. However, if this team finds its offensive identity, learns how to use its weapons to get on the scoreboard first, get off the field on third downs, control the clock and make the other team one dimensional, we could and should win them all. We are equally capable of achieving both of those feats and it is anybody's guess as to which one shows up.

I will say though that the psyche of this team appears fragile, like 2010 fragile. If we lose another game we shouldn't then I can see this crowd packing it in. I have yet to see the fire from this team that actually looks like they care about being there, and that is the most telling part to me.
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Agree it has that on the edge of going south feel like 2010.
 
And we'll only have ten more years of 7-5 to go. Buy those Music City Bowl packages today, rubes!
 
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