I know I'm probably crazy and wrong ...... but in the limited amount of time I've spent watching Iowa this year, I swear that teams are falling over themselves to throw the ball to Iowa's secondary.
Hence why "the Rose Bowl would entirely come down to the B1G Championship game" means we would need to win it.
This is what Fleck said in the presser this week:
Did you miss the part about his friend getting shot and killed recently?
Holy shit. Yes, I absolutely did miss that.
Not just a friend, I think they were either step siblings or half siblings? I think they said something like that during the purdue game when talking about it (maybe just that they were as close as brothers?).
| Opponent | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio State | 5 | 57 | 11.4 | 1 |
| Miami (OH) | 3 | 73 | 24.3 | 1 |
| Colorado | 1 | 39 | 39.0 | 0 |
| Bowling Green | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
I heard that on the broadcast as well, but I can't find anyone else corroborating that.
Didn't he leave early in the game? I do recall him being the target on the first of Morgan's picks
I highly doubt it. Iowa is a good defense, front and back.
You're probably right.
I recall people posting that he had an argument on the sideline with the coaching staff and never went back in.
If your worst case scenario plays out, this forum will go ballistic arguing between the defenders of Fleck and everyone else.
I guess technically we are dogs to Nebby, we were also dogs to Colorado and Purdue and like those games I think we have the better team
I agree in part. Still don't think Huskers should be favs. Not with the veteran team Fleck has.
It's true that the Indiana QB is having a bad year and Penn St inexplicably had no QB to replace Clifford. I concede you might have caught one of his feeble shot putts but then imagine you would have stumbled and fumbled it back. But Iowa has not gotten that huge number of turnovers just on luck.
Uh, the only pick thrown "right at the Iowa guy" in the PSU game was from the starter, Clifford. Other than that, the Iowa defensive backs are diving for those interceptions.
Then I guess that's the one I saw. Like I said, I wasn't watching that entire game closely. Nor did I watch their IU game closely for the entire game.
Guys I would take this
Have improved my best for this team.
I was not in the group (my take was that my overall expectations for win totals were unaffected by the BGSU loss, so if the Gophs dropped that one, they could make it up elsewhere). If I had to guess, I assume their thinking went along the lines of "I expected this team to be good enough that losing to a team like BGSU wouldn't happen, and that loss occurring in and of itself means this team is not as good as I expected it to be." I disagree with that rationale. I'd also note that this poll was much closer in time to the BGSU loss that happened close to a pretty underwhelming Miami OH win and a rough second half collapse against a very good OSU team, so I bet if asked today, a good chunk of those fans would say "I'd be happy with this season if we beat Iowa and WI and go to Indy."
If we lose to Iowa and Wisconsin, but otherwise win out and win the bowl game, this will basically be like 2016 except with a bad BGSU loss on top of it. We would have done a good job of beating the bad to average teams, lost the trophy games, and lost to all of the good regular season teams we played. If we end the regular season losing all the trophies, with a loss to BGSU, and with our best win being against Purdue, I'd be pretty underwhelmed. I don't think that will happen. This team is good enough to beat Iowa and Wisconsin (reminder: we are ranked ahead of both of them), and certainly good enough to at least split the two.
Let me make sure I have it correct:
