Here's all of his experience in college football.
Couple ways you can look at this...
He's never seen a real defensive line. Ever. Iowa for all it's faults has the 5th ranked rushing defense in all of college football. Now that has to be taken into context with our opponents so far, but Iowa has a ridiculous d-line no matter how you stack it. So...he's getting thrown right in the depths of hell with no way to prep for it. PSU can practice it all they want, any way they want...but Kinnick + night game + QB still in diapers <> a good thing. He will experience things that give him nightmares whether they win or lose. Graves, Hurkett, and Llewellyn will be in his head that whole plane ride.
Iowa's secondary is terrible. If the Hawks can win the LOS and put a few panic attacks on Grunkmeyer that should effectively shut down the pass and allow pressure from LBs. PSU's OL has not been great so far, obviously. There could not be a better scenario for Iowa's secondary.
PSU obviously has to sell itself out to the run and there's going to be a lot of sweeps and reverses. Contain that, they have a shot at this. Fail to contain and it's probably game over.
PSU's rushing defense is 70th in the country.
On paper, this should be a blowout. But, remember...all that expectation crap is for the birds. This is likely going to be decided by 3 points in the 4th quarter and come down to something dumb like a PI call or missed chip shot no matter which team it is.
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Guessing it's an 8 hour-ish drive from Tennessee, you could leave around noon Friday, grab a cheap motel in Mt Pleasant for a couple nights. Super 8 is $65 according to Google. Snag a buddy to go with and it'd be a hell of a fun road trip
