Will there be a meltdown if we lose to Rutgers?





Sure. There was a meltdown when we lost by 3, via a 55 yard field goal, on the road, to the 16th ranked team in the country. This is a game Iowa should win, but a conference road game is a conference road game. The meltdown for me is that it would be sad to know this is a lost season 4 games in. If we lose this one, 7-5 is the ceiling.
 




Oh I'm sure by others it would. We are only a 2 pt fav I think. I won't be blowing any gaskets if we lose a close game. It'd just be more confirmation that we aren't as good as the media tried saying we'd be. I haven't seen anything yet that tells me we can win road games in the BIG against a decent team. I took nothing from the UMass game. They may as well of played a HS team.

Now if Iowa loses by say 10 plus and looks bad doing it then yeah I would probably pile on with some of the pitchfork holders. That would be inexcusable. It just all depends how the game goes as much as the outcome.
 




I don't know that the media has been hyping up Iowa all that much. Preseason Iowa was a marginal just out of the Top 25 school, which was fair given trendlines and returning players. A few pundits suggested Iowa as a dark horse for the playoffs, but that was not widespread. If you added up all the dark horses picked by all the pundits you would have like 40 teams in that mix.

I think most fans and pundits have been realistic. I have seen a lot of 7-9 win season predictions. We would have needed to beat ISU for this season to be special. It was close, but no cigar. If we lose to Rutgers, this is going to be a very mediocre season by KF standards.

Go Hawks!
 


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