I agree and I agree.

Michigan will still not beat Iowa in Iowa City this year.

I didn't pay much attention to this weeks Iowa/ISU game, but isn't Iowa going to be missing their starting RB all year?

The 1st teamer out of spring ball, yeah..but it's not a terrible loss. He's a real good RB, but they've got 3 RBs who could all start. They have the true freshman, Wegher, out of Sioux City who put up 100 yards on Iowa State, who was a 5 star recruit. They have Jeff Brinson, the Florida commit who's seeing time and then the kid out of Lincoln who's pretty good but probably the least talented of the three.

I didn't buy much into the Northern Iowa game for a couple of reasons..

-3 of the starting OL were out due to suspension/illness and another starter was playing out of position.
-Stanzi had no time to pass with those 3 backups flailing all over the field, nor could the running game get started.
-They were looking past UNI to Iowa State...you and I both know what can happen when you overlook a top-notch FCS team.
-They hadn't quite settled on a rotation for their DL, which it seems they've settled down on.
-UNI really is one of the top 30-35 college football teams in the county.

Iowa's got everyone back now and I think they'll handle Arizona pretty easily.. something like 24-7 or 21-7. I don't think Iowa will run wild on them(they have a pretty good D) but I think Iowa's more talented and deeper at just about every position.

Iowa's got a tough road schedule this year(Iowa State, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin) but I think they'll win 8 or 9 games again. 10 if they catch a couple breaks and keep everyone healthy.

What's even scarier is that if they do win 8 or 9 games, they'll have(in theory, if Spievey and Bulaga don't go pro) 18 starters back and both kickers next year.

/Your Weekly Iowa Update

Wow. That's kinda saying alot. I would assume they are ranked in the top 5 in I-aa but you really think they are one of the top 35 teams in all of the country? I guess there really is no way to tell, do they play any other Ia teams?

They are top 5 of their division easily. I don't really know how that translates to FBS opponents though. I think saying they would be top 50 is more than fair.

They're #4 in I-AA. They beat Iowa State at ISU 2 years ago. They played BYU tough at BYU with essentially the same team last year..and obviously they almost beat the weird lineup that Iowa had to throw out there. Their QB is up for the Walter Payton award(I-AA Heisman), they've got a DE named Ruffin who's probably gonna be a early round draft pick and they have a ton of D-I transfers(Elijah Hodge from Wisconsin among others). I might've been being a bit generous, but they're a very good team. If they played in the Big East, they'd finish 3rd or so, IMO..so 35-40th maybe.

Yep.

Pretty easy win after a sluggish start. Ground game was really impressive, didn't get to see much of the passing game since it wasn't needed. Laces is quick as hell, but he could stand to get a little more accurate.

Defense needs to do a much better job of stopping the run on the early downs for Big-10 play.

Defense needs to do a much better job of stopping anything.. Yikes, man.

Not a guarantee that Indiana wins but that might be one of the worst calls I've ever seen. And then to not overturn it with replay is just absolutely terrible.

I had to listen to the last part of the game on the radio, and the announcers made it seem like one of the worst calls ever. I haven't seen the replay, but I'm expecting to be pissed.

what defense?

man, that was terrible. I can't believe they get a W for that disaster.

You will be.

Not to delve into hyperbole but it's probably the worst call I've ever seen. It wasn't even close.

I'm more than confident in this.



Also, through the 3rd quarter of today's game, Northern Iowa had outscored their FBS opponnents 131-7.

They really are pretty good.



Here's hoping for a Hawkeye win tonight.

I didn't get to see any of the game since I was travelling and eating when it was going on. Apparently I should be happy we got a W, maybe I'll get to see a replay on the big ten network this week.

ESPN is already labeling that game one of the ten most important of the month.



I'm expecting a pretty though game with MSU, not sure we make it to Iowa undefeated.

Tate Forcier is dreamy.

/sigh

Nice end of the 4th, horrible overtime. MSU dominated most of the game though, so can't really complain about not finishing the comeback.

bad day for us man, bad day

GONNA GET YOUR WEINERS STEPPED ON BY THEM DUMB FARM BOYS FROM IOWA TONIGHT. WOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I love all the sudden confidence Iowa has when they just crushed Arkansas State by 3 points.

Brown didn't make the trip for Michigan, which is a good sign for the hawkeyes though.

Pretty sure I've had this confidence since before the season.




Also, not sure why Michigan would be confident at all. Barely beat Indiana at home, Eastern Michigan and lost to a terrible Michigan State team.

Oh,they beat a REEEEALLY tough Notre Dame team.

Since, beating Notre Dame at all, in the last 15 years is a really big accomplishment.

Hate to say I told you so..

If Michigan wouldn't have had 5 turnovers we would've won by 14. Even with 5 turnovers you guys barely won. I realize our safeties are our downfall in the secondary.

And by the way we beat EMU by 20 or something. The second and third string were playing by the middle of the 3rd.

Also this is coming from a guy spouting off about us squeaking by. What about your 3 pt win over Arkansas St?

Also you barely beat N. Iowa in week 1, WTF are you talking about barely beating teams!

The entire big ten sucks.

I'll take barely beating N. Iowa over losing to Appalachain State. Obviously you didn't watch any of the Arkansas State game, I'd use your turnover argument to point out that it would've easily been 28-7 if it weren't for a pick 6 that made it 21-14, but I live in the now.. not the what could've been. Also, congrats on beating Eastern Michigan by 20. I guess you don't want to talk about the Indiana game.

Also, if we had made any kind of decent play calls on 3rd/4th and short, we'd have won by 20.

P.s. 6-0.



Iowa > Miami

nope. and by next year the gap will be a lot wider. call me when Iowa does something on the national stage.

the same reasons why you hated on Michigan are the same reasons why I am not impressed you survived by two points against a team that made a boatload of mistakes and is starting true frosh QBs.

The only reason I even really rubbed it in is because Michigan fans are so god damn obnoxious.

Anyway, I don't really expect anyone to be impressed with any of our wins. Outside of Iowa State, Penn State and Arizona, they've all been pretty ugly.

The truth is, I don't care. This is the second time Iowa's started 6-0 since I was born(and I was 1 the last time). If they win next week on the road at Wisconsin, they'll be 7-0 for the first time since 1922. They can keep winning ugly as long as they keep winning, I'm just enjoying the ride. We're not Miami, we're not Oklahoma.. seasons like this don't happen real often. The Hawkeyes had 15+ consecutive losing season in the 60's and 70's.

I thought at the beginning of the season we could have a better team than last year and a worse record.. and we went 9-4 last year.

Also, I don't think the gap will be as wide as you think. If everyone who's available comes back next year, Iowa returns 18 starters and both kickers.

all that is......pretty fair. Congrats Iowa.

I saw the schedule though....if they stay undefeated they will have earned it. Lots of road games.

Let me say this, though.. as an Iowa fan and a Big Ten fan, if Iowa does finish 2nd, I really, really hope they don't go to a BCS game. It really effs up the bowl slotting and works against the league in general. Last year, if we had only one team, we likely would've won 5-6 of our bowl games instead of Iowa's win in the Outback Bowl.

LMAO @ this...

Iowa fans when they think they are good, talk more shit than anyone. Thats why I made so mubch money betting the game because of cocky Iowa fans who thought they were going to blow out anyone. Three home wins by 6 points and I've got Iowa fans laying me 10 points, hahahahaha.

Retards.

They are not going undefeated. You can count OSU as a loss and they probably lose one of the other road games too.

translation: you want iowa to win it's bowl game and thus not play a bcs bowl team.

Yeah.. I know Iowa fans dip 65 years into the record books to brag about how good their teams are. Michigan fans would never do something like that.



I like Iowa's chances of going undefeated much better than Michigan's.



I think the whole conference would do well to lay back a year.

You just pulled out your sample size in the other thread of 2002... When was Iowa's last national championship?




So you think a 4-2 team can't go undefeated? Hope that limb you just climbed out on doesn't snap.

If you think Iowa can walk into OSU and win, I'm willing to bet that game straight up right now. You probably don't want to do that with me though, some OSU fans might actually give you points. I like Michigan's chances of beating them better than Iowa's.

We can do a prop bet though. Point spread of the Michigan/OSU game vs the point spread of the Iowa/OSU game. If one of our teams win and the other loses vs OSU, that determines the winner. however if both lose or both win, its decided by who won by more or lost by less. We can just do something fun like signatures for a week or something.

You down?

I don't think they can just walk in and win..but I think that our defense can contain their offense without a whole lot of effort, honestly. I think Michigan's offense is much better than Ohio State's and while we gave up more yards than I'd have liked on the ground, we shut Michigan down through the air. If our offense can score 20 in that game, I think we can win it.


Also, sure. Av/Sig/Title for a week starting beginning the Monday after the Ohio State/Michigan game.

Not really the strong point of the team this year. Tate is getting a lot of hype, but really the running game carries the team.

Bets on, good luck.

I know.. but our secondary is really strong. Even with Berstein out for the year. We can cover Ohio State with man and leave 7-8 in the box. If tOSU is favored by say, 5 or more, I'd take Iowa.

Last week I only got to see the second half of the turnoverfest from my seat in a poker tournament. I was busted out of the tournament a few minutes after the final interception. That was not a good half hour.

Who else is PSYCHED about the DELAWARE STATE game tomorrow? Wooohoo!

Me!

I'm actually thinking I might make a trip up to Ann Arbor to see the Penn State game next week depending on how things at the WSOP circuit event go.

I'll be there tailgating.

Interesting Article For The Non-Believer

this article is full of wild conclusions. Yes, we all know the Big 10 isn't awful. It's a legit BCS conference. And I am sure Purdue is not as bad as its 2-5 record. But they are still 2-5. The perception about the Big 10 is that its good teams are not all that good. That gets born out time and time again lately when a good Big 10 team plays another good opponent from a different conference.

the big 10 is 5-8 out of conference this year and Ohio State once again lost at home to USC (who is not as good as usual this year). If Iowa wants respect they are going to have to earn it by beating someone real in a bowl. Same for all the other big 10 teams.

This stuff is cyclical though and if history is any indication Rich Rod will have Michigan back to prominence sooner than later.

Also, why is everyone ripping the ACC Coastal? The reason the weird tiebreaker scenario looms is because Tech, Tech and Miami are all pretty good. Hokies played Alabama about as tough as anyone has played them this year and Miami beat a banged-up OU team at home (which is all Texas has accomplished really). Clemson is not so bad either and Virginia seems to at least be competent now after starting the year so bad.

The ACC's problem is the other division sucks big floppy donkey d-ck.

The most accurate statement in that article...

Iowa has wins over Florida, LSU and South Carolina in recent bowl games--and should have two wins over Florida if it wasn't for some of the worst officiating this side of the Arkansas/Florida game. I think in some arbitrary number, like, the last 22 Bowl games the Big Ten is 12-10 against the SEC. It just doesn't mean much because Ohio State can't win the big game.


Also, I know that the Big Ten, as a conference, isn't elite. But I think they're better than the Big East, ACC and the Pac 10(I'll even take that they're even). They're better than the Big 12 this year, IMO. And the SEC, while better, isn't worlds ahead.



I agree.

Why is every Big 10 fan obsessed with the SEC? The Big 10 went 0-6 in bowl games last year and is unimpressive in non-conference games so far this year and their de facto best team always seems to get smoked in big games. These are facts. If they do better in their bowl games this year, people will back off.

1. The SEC is the measuring stick, right?
2. Not so fast, my friend! 1-6.. though the depth of bowl teams is skewed with two BCS teams most every year. Everybody moves up a spot higher than they would've been.
3. Who is impressive in non-conference games? The WAC?
4. Okay.
5. Not all of them.
6. I agree.

Rough day for Michigan.. yikes..

More nervous for our game then I might've ever been and then on the first series we lose Dace Richardson, a big, big performer on the O-line..

Blah.

One time, Hawkeyes, one time.

Penn State matches up well with Michigan like Iowa seems to do to PSU.

Not a pretty game but congrats to Iowa. 8-0 for the first time.