This isn't saying Iowa won't won't pull a Va Tech and turn around to lay an egg against an inferior team the week after a tough loss in a game that ended after 1pm, but I feel better about it being Ball State than a tougher team.
The hangover for this game will be long felt. The emotional component of having to scale back seasonal goals with the fact that they will get back at sometime around dawn is going to make it really hard to get back in gear for next week.
I expect a much closer game next week than anybody would like to see. But if the Hawks had to go straight to Ann Arbor like they did after their last midnight run in the desert, I wouldn't give them a snowball's chance to win.
The hangover for this game will be long felt. The emotional component of having to scale back seasonal goals with the fact that they will get back at sometime around dawn is going to make it really hard to get back in gear for next week.
I expect a much closer game next week than anybody would like to see. But if the Hawks had to go straight to Ann Arbor like they did after their last midnight run in the desert, I wouldn't give them a snowball's chance to win.
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