I'm probably at "excitement" right now. It's not the fact that we're 3-0, which is awesome in and of itself. But it's the WAY we've played during those 3 games. We've managed, in 3 games, to break about 15 years worth of tendencies. We've found a playmaker at QB that we really haven't had since 2004. We're being aggressive in places we should be aggressive. We're hitting hard, guys are playing with what seems to be a great deal of enthusiasm, we seem to have developed a really good leadership group, and the guys genuinely seem to like each other.
I know the West will be a dogfight, but if we can keep up the type of play we've been seeing, the record will take care of itself. We could go 7-5, but if it's a 7-5 where we are emptying every chamber in the gun and playing like our hair was on fire, but just didn't quite have the talent to win....I'm okay with that. Just get back to playing Hawkeye football, like they seem to be doing, and the rest will take care of itself.