ssckelley
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I think Northwestern will put up a good fight, I'd take Northwestern in a 30 point spread. Northwestern will be the best defense they've faced yet.
Iowa 2.5 point favorites over badgers
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I think Northwestern will put up a good fight, I'd take Northwestern in a 30 point spread. Northwestern will be the best defense they've faced yet.
What is your "favorite" loss to Wisky?
I would imagine 2010 has to stand out for most, that loss was kind of the beginning of the end for what should have been a special season.
But man, they really gave that 2018 game away. That team should have been B1G West champs.
And then there was the 2017 beatdown where Iowa mustered about 60 yards of total offense.
Unfortunately, so many to choose from over the last decade.
I would imagine 2010 has to stand out for most, that loss was kind of the beginning of the end for what should have been a special season.
But man, they really gave that 2018 game away. That team should have been B1G West champs.
And then there was the 2017 beatdown where Iowa mustered about 60 yards of total offense.
Unfortunately, so many to choose from over the last decade.
okeefe4prez
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I thought it was 67. I can never remember if it was 76, 77 or 67.
kicker22
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I hope I'm wrong, but I can see Michigan pulling the ultimate F##k You to OSU and determining that they cannot play this weekend. The Michigan programs is a mess, their players are just returning to practice, and OSU just absolutely pummeled MSU with something like 23 players gone.
If the game is played Michigan is going to get absolutely annihilated. So with everything OSU is playing for, and the state of things in Ann Arbor what better way to deliver an absolutely crushing blow against your biggest rival, while avoiding embarrassment, then simply calling the game off due to the virus.
I'm not saying Minnesota played that card, but look how they impacted two of their rivals by not taking the field. At the time they cancelled the Wiscy game it cost Wiscy a shot at the Big Ten Championship game and cancelling the NW game gave Iowa the middle finger by giving the West to NW by default.
I don't necessarily think programs think like that, but the way the schools have control of whether or not they are able to put a field on the team, whose to say it isn't taken into consideration.
HaydenHawk56
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I would rather be Iowa where 8-4 is the average.....but the glass ceiling gets shattered more often. Far to often, we are just on the outside looking in.
okeefe4prez
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The elite teams not named Bama and Clemson swing hard for the fences. They hit some grand slams and strike out a few times. There are Iowa fans who think "consistency" is better than that model. I don't know. I'd suffer through LSU's terrible season this year for that natty. Same with what happened to Auburn after Cam left. Hell, I'd even take FSU's title and their subsequent terrible run. That will never happen at Iowa, though. I think our current position where we're hanging around the rim once every decade or so is the best shot we have at rolling into something of major significance.
Oh I totally agree. It realistically seems that KF and his hawks are so many times one game away from winning the west and before divisions it looked like they could have got another title in 2009 and or 2010. So many times it has been jNW barely beating us to put that little thorn and scab on our record. I thought BF might have figured out a better balance of run and pass than 15-50 for this year.
#1DieHardHawk
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The hardest time to face Wisconsin is when you have an inexperienced QB, so I can't say I'm very confident going into this game. The coaches have struggled mightily decoding the 3-4 defense, even with experience at QB. Unless we can establish a dominant running attack in the game, I just don't see us moving the ball.
Defensively, as usual, we match up okay, but, as with prior seasons, the defense runs the risk of gassing out by the 4th quarter, and Wisconsin is always good for at least one misdirection play that guts us.
All that said, I really, really hope we kick their asses.
Defensively, as usual, we match up okay, but, as with prior seasons, the defense runs the risk of gassing out by the 4th quarter, and Wisconsin is always good for at least one misdirection play that guts us.
All that said, I really, really hope we kick their asses.
NCHawker
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I think the hawks will be dialed in for this one. I'm hoping they come out and just kick their ass. I'm also hoping the go score and keep scoring and just keep the lead until the end. I'm also hoping that if they fall behind, they'll make adjustments and come back and win.
SmokeTownHawk
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This of all years is when we beat Pedo State, so why not Wisky too? Make this asterisk season something to remember. Not going to be easy, and the Badgers always seem to have that extra something against us. But we're due to turn that around. That's all I got.
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If memory serves, the few games Wisc has played have been against far superior teams than Iowa. Don't be lulled to sleep by them.
Good points. Veteran teams on offense will use the edge blitz by wisky or other blitzing 3-4 teams as an attacking point. If an outside lbkr blitzes either the running back on that side will quickly flare to the outside to get a quick pass in open space or a TE or slot on that side does the same thing.
Younger teams sometimes cant do this on offense. A lot of people saw the logic in Fry having most of this qbs quickly backpedal while facing the defense to give more read time.
Fryowa
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Yeah those opening lines are always for suckers. Gotta get the money started coming in.
Wisky is also higher in Overall Efficiency by Footballoutsiders, if you go in for that sort of thing:
2020 COLLEGE FOOTBALL FEI RATINGS | Football Outsiders
Rk Team Rec FBS FEI OFEI Rk DFEI Rk NDE Rk ELS Rk GLS Rk ALS Rk 1 Alabama 13-0 13-0 1.43 2.47 1 .50 21 2.61 2 .97 18 3.54 2 7.68 2 2 BYU
SCHawkeye2
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If you look at only B10 records for the past 5 seasons, NW (26-16) and IA (26-17) records are almost identical.
NW has two (presumptive) West Div titles and two champ game appearances. Iowa has no championships.
While NW did have a 1-8 season between the two West titles, I would prefer the NW situation of playing for B10 championships two of last three years.
AFAcademyHawk
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I hadn't seen this point mentioned yet, but the weather looks crummy (rain/snow).
Slight favor to Wisconsin? They don't have much explosiveness on offense.
Slight favor to Wisconsin? They don't have much explosiveness on offense.
I saw the forecast too. Sometimes this can favor the receiver because they can cut quicker than the DB. Can work for and against both teams.
Yeah I understand that over a 3 year time period but both coaches have been there > 15 years. Fitz may have even a third division title as when he has a really good team he doesnt lose many close games and he knows how to keep games close with great tackling and forcing turnovers.
