Howe: Game By Game Predictions for Hawkeye Football '17

RobHowe said:
When I did this exercise, I didn't stop through the process, counting wins and losses. I waited until the end. I tried my best to analyze each game individually. The games I predicted as wins that could be losses were at Iowa State and Michigan State. The games I picked as losses that I feel most likely could go the other way are Northwestern and Nebraska.
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I think NW is a win for Iowa...pretty confident in that one. Iowa is coming off a bye when they play NW, meanwhile NW goes at Wisconsin, Penn State, at Maryland, and Iowa all in a row without a bye. They're going to be beat up pretty badly going through that gauntlet. Plus you know Doyle is going to remind Iowa about the loss last year to NW for the entire bye week.

Thorson lost Carr, his favorite target who destroyed Iowa last year.

Justin Jackson has 855 college football carries going into this year. 855! No Iowa RB in the history of Iowa football has had over 832 carries (Ladell Betts over 4 seasons), and Jackson still has another season. I'm not sure how Jackson is still walking.

I'm still sticking with 9-3. Iowa has too much returning talent to go 6-6 like Jon is predicting. CJ had a mediocre year last year with zero WR's and they still went 8-4. A new QB for Iowa isn't as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. Tougher schedule this year than last year to be sure, but there's too much talent on this team to go 6-6.
 
I would not be surprised by a win in Evanston. I also would be surprised by a loss at Iowa State or Michigan State.
 
I am fairly optimistic about the team this year. I think Iowa out-Wisconsins Wisconsin and Iowa ends up 7-2, 10-2 and winning the west.

book it. bloodbath
 
mopkins said:
I think NW is a win for Iowa...pretty confident in that one. Iowa is coming off a bye when they play NW, meanwhile NW goes at Wisconsin, Penn State, at Maryland, and Iowa all in a row without a bye. They're going to be beat up pretty badly going through that gauntlet. Plus you know Doyle is going to remind Iowa about the loss last year to NW for the entire bye week.

Thorson lost Carr, his favorite target who destroyed Iowa last year.

Justin Jackson has 855 college football carries going into this year. 855! No Iowa RB in the history of Iowa football has had over 832 carries (Ladell Betts over 4 seasons), and Jackson still has another season. I'm not sure how Jackson is still walking.

I'm still sticking with 9-3. Iowa has too much returning talent to go 6-6 like Jon is predicting. CJ had a mediocre year last year with zero WR's and they still went 8-4. A new QB for Iowa isn't as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. Tougher schedule this year than last year to be sure, but there's too much talent on this team to go 6-6.
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Justin Jackson with 855 carries already is insane ... especially for a guy who is only 190 lbs.. The NFL scouts look at that as a negative these days ... like a set of worn tires. Good analysis and you wonder if he will break down eventually after all that punishment. By comparison, Wadley has only 284 career carries, Butler has 608.
 
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I think the season hinges on one thing. I know this sounds weird, but I seriously think the season's success solely depends on whether we can protect the QB and allow him to have a pocket for 3-5 seconds. We know we can run block...and are deep in the OL. We know we have two or three high level backs, and one who is absolutely sick with a sliver of space. That means you have to load up the box to stop us...it's all about pass protection to me.

The defense has enough components to be good to very good...and Phil Parker keeps people out of the endzone at a surprising clip. They go to very good if our DEs are as good as we think they are. Trust me, nothing makes your DBs look good better than a scary pass rush...and throwing under duress. Ask CJ Beathard...he will explain it to you.

At this point...I'm leaning to 8-9 wins depending on what the pass protection does. If it's good...the Hawks win at least nine games. At Nebraska is a win until they show they can man up at the end of a long B10 season.
 
mopkins said:
I think NW is a win for Iowa...pretty confident in that one. Iowa is coming off a bye when they play NW, meanwhile NW goes at Wisconsin, Penn State, at Maryland, and Iowa all in a row without a bye. They're going to be beat up pretty badly going through that gauntlet. Plus you know Doyle is going to remind Iowa about the loss last year to NW for the entire bye week.

Thorson lost Carr, his favorite target who destroyed Iowa last year.

Justin Jackson has 855 college football carries going into this year. 855! No Iowa RB in the history of Iowa football has had over 832 carries (Ladell Betts over 4 seasons), and Jackson still has another season. I'm not sure how Jackson is still walking.

I'm still sticking with 9-3. Iowa has too much returning talent to go 6-6 like Jon is predicting. CJ had a mediocre year last year with zero WR's and they still went 8-4. A new QB for Iowa isn't as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. Tougher schedule this year than last year to be sure, but there's too much talent on this team to go 6-6.
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I am too lazy to do the homework, but I do believe KF's record coming out of byes isn't great. However, I am with you I am sticking with 9-3 as well.This team feels a lot like that '03 team. Chandler to Ochoa wasn't exactly potent, but it was enough to go along with Fred Russell and that o-line. I feel Stanley will do enough in the passing game to complement the running game.
 
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