Preview, Prediction: First-Place Northwestern Up Next for Hawkeyes
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Fryowa
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Absolutely. An electric fillet knife makes it go quick. I can have a limit of bluegills done in 20 minutes from getting the knife out, to clean up afterwards.
Those ones went from the lake to the fryer in about an hour and a half. Me, my kid, and two of his buddies had that, a bowl of cole slaw, and a bag of sweet potato fries polished off in no time. It's unreal how much three 12 year old boys can eat, holy shit.
Northside Hawk
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I'm not talking bluegill fishing. I'm talking shark hunting.Well in that case here's what I brought home for supper Sunday afternoon.
Northside Hawk
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If the line is moving up, could that mean a lot money is coming in on Iowa?
I wish I knew what Vegas sees in this game. They've knocked us off twice in a row after we got them three in a row. I have mentioned that they could be a little flat after our Purdue loss all but clinched the west for them. That could work to our advantage, regardless of the "we are Paddy's super bowl" angle.
This is a kinda strange game. Iowa basically handed the West to Northwestern last week regardless of how Saturday goes and now they're playing each other. Iowa has better players nearly across the board but Northwestern will outclass them on game day coaching.
Northwestern: The team that has more losses overall couldn't have handpicked better teams to lose to. 3 OOC teams and a non division team.
Iowa: Basically the opposite. 3-0 in the OCC including one really good win. But they've lost the 3 most important games this season. 2 of which were other division contenders.
Northwestern: The team that has more losses overall couldn't have handpicked better teams to lose to. 3 OOC teams and a non division team.
Iowa: Basically the opposite. 3-0 in the OCC including one really good win. But they've lost the 3 most important games this season. 2 of which were other division contenders.
Fryowa
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Vegas didn’t see anything, early lines are just to start moving money around and see where the sucker bets pile up. Thursday will be when it settles out.
That said even if it settles in a goofy spot, it closes where the bets will make Vegas the most money. Not necessarily with the “right” spread.
When Vegas sets a line, Vegas knows what the actual score should be and also what the public perceives the score should be. The line is set somewhere between these two figures.
For example, public perception is Northwestern -3, Vegas actual is Iowa -18, Vegas line might be Iowa -10 because they'd know most of the money would go on NW and that would be a bad bet. I'm not saying that's the case here because I think the public and Vegas are closer on this one, just not the Iowa board.
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ClintonIAfan
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Iowa 37
Mildcats 17
Mildcats 17
SteveGarvey1
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Now that the pressure is off and we have virtually no chance to win the B1G, we probably will come out and roll NW. It'll probably loosen us up some.
ClintonIAfan
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There actually is a chance to win the big 10 west if Iowa wins out, and the other teams each lose 2. Just win out, and see. At the very least work hard, and go to the Sea World Holiday Bowl. Iowa football had some great times there in the 1980s.
If hawks cut down on the errors, whether it is a key dropped ball, penalty, bad game decision or action, dont give up the big pass play, they should win.
jNW is pretty good of course but no powerhouse. The hawks are just a few errors and plays away from beating 3 good teams that they lost to.
I am done making score predictions with KF and BF. I think the hawks have an 85% chance of winning,
Fryowa
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Just because you got picked on in school you don't need to take it out on us.
83Hawk
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This is the likely scenario. If the game is close, NW will win. Iowa’s only chance is to get a big lead (which, right now, I don’t have much confidence in them to do).
83Hawk
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You predicting the men’s bb team to go undefeated again I presume?
Northside Hawk
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Northwestern would have to lose to Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois.
Wisconsin and Purdue still play each other. Otherwise Purdue has Minnesota and Indiana.
Wisconsin has the highest likelihood of losing two, in fact they probably will. Road trips to Peen State and Purdue still on the docket.
We HAD to beat Purdue. Then we would have become the biggest gopher fans in the world. Now we're playing for the best bowl we can get invited to.
It's not going to happen but if Minnie beats Purdue, NW and Wiscy. Wiscy loses to PSU (likely) and Wiscy beats Purdue (toss-up). Wiscy would have 4 losses, Purdue 4 losses and NW 3 losses and we beat NW in a tiebreaker.
All sorts of wild shit will go down on and off the field.
Maybe we can meet up with BYU and they can have Ty Detmer back as their QB.
trj
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The more I think about it, the more I think Iowa rolls in this game. I just don’t have the courage to put the mortgage on it.
This game has the “where has this been all year” type of feel to it. I know ClintonIowa is doing his homer/alt schtick, but I don’t think he is that far off with his score prediction.
This game has the “where has this been all year” type of feel to it. I know ClintonIowa is doing his homer/alt schtick, but I don’t think he is that far off with his score prediction.
