PSU is NOT the same team on the road that they are at home....

SpiderRico said:
With their current makeup, PSU is damn near an impossible out at home....but they can absolutely be beat away from Happy Valley.

Last year, they lost at Pitt by 3....but the score was way closer than the game indicated. They were getting pounded pretty good thru 3 qtrs until a last minute flurry of points (18 in the 4th) got them close....but Pitt completely out played them.

They got completely blitzkrieged by Michigan 49-10....who of course we beat at home.

And at Indiana, while they ultimately won by 2 tds, it took a 24 point 4th quarter to do it as Indiana was leading by a td going into the 4th quarter.

At Purdue and at Rutgers can't even be considered as those teams were just bad.

But the 3 teams they played with a pulse on the road, they were outscored in the first 3 qtrs by a combined score of 94-45.

Our perception is tainted quite a bit by the whipping we took last year at Happy Valley....but with them coming to Kinnick, we've got more than a puncher's chance to upset them....
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Well from what you are saying then Kirk better jump out to a significant lead going into the fourth quarter and not do his usual conservative style going into the fourth quarter.

I remember one year we had a similar team when we pounded people in the fourth quarter.
 
PSU has won 13 of their last 14 and had USC beat in the Rose Bowl. That is a lot of momentum for Iowa to stop. Iowa keeps it close for awhile and then PSU pulls away late. Even though Iowa loses I think there will be a lot of optimism going into Michigan St.
 
We don't have the secondary to keep them from beating us to death on the outside. The whiffs so far this year against 3 horrible teams are going to get magnified.
 
Iowa needs to make the game about their defense. Iowa needs to shut down one of the best offense's in the country. If they can get close to that, Iowa has a chance.
 
LGEND24 said:
Iowa City will be the first hostile road environment they've faced since their loss @ Michigan last year. I'm hoping we can rattle McSorley a bit and prevent him from doing his stupid bat swing and salute.
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I also don't want to see Franklin doing the jump around BS that he does every time the Nits actually make a good play. Lets put a couple hundred pounds around his ankles and beat the tar out of them like we did MSU back in 2010 when they where ranked #5. I think the final was 37-6. God that would be nice.
 
HawkeyeGunner said:
I also don't want to see Franklin doing the jump around BS that he does every time the Nits actually make a good play. Lets put a couple hundred pounds around his ankles and beat the tar out of them like we did MSU back in 2010 when they where ranked #5. I think the final was 37-6. God that would be nice.
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Itd be great if the PSU would be as bad as Cousins was in that game.
 
OK. According to the current ESPN NCAA Football Power Index, Penn St is ranked #5. They beat #116 Akron 52-0 at home, they beat #69 Pitt 33-14 at home and they beat #127 Georgia State at home 56-0. Are these three wins or their scores unexpected?

On the other hand, Iowa is ranked #38. We have beat #96 Wyoming (with a top 5 QB) at home 24-3, we beat #56 Iowa St on the road 44-41 and we beat #97 North Texas at home 31-14.

I'd put the game Saturday in the toss-up category with visual advantages going to Penn St but intangibles going to Iowa.
 
Knight78 said:
Ranking the three teams we've played and the three teams they've played, if our opponents are terrible then their opponents are much, much worse.
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But they're crushing those opponents that they're expected to be considerably better than. We are not doing that. It's not necessarily who they're playing but how they're playing against them. Whether they're as good as advertised is yet to be determined but the fact is that at this point they are going for the jugular early and refusing to take their foot off the gas while looking dominant in the process. We on the other hand are a 3-0 team that has failed to put "inferior" opponents away early and allowed them to stick around. It's simply an eye test right now and PSU with 2 shutouts is passing it.
 
PSU hired the old Minnesota OL coach, who Tracy Claeys had fired, then PSU hired prior to last year. About the 6th game or so last year their O caught fire and has not slowed down. I view it as the the OL coach getting his technique and system working. I would also say PSU is a big play O. Make them work down the field and they can be beat. Also you can not be going 3 and out or you give them too many chances for big plays.
 
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thawks1 said:
PSU hired the old Minnesota OL coach, who Tracy Claeys had fired, then PSU hired prior to last year. About the 6th game or so last year their O caught fire and has not slowed down. I view it as the the OL coach getting his technique and system working. I would also say PSU is a big play O. Make them work down the field and they can be beat. Also you can not be going 3 and out or you give them too many chances for big plays.
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Iowa's defense is 11th in the country in 3rd down conversions with 9/38, PSU is 54th with 20/55. I think the most telling thing will be how similar or different those two numbers are after Saturday. If the margin between them stays about the same, Iowa wins.
 
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