Tonight the Hawks confirmed to country what they were - a decent (not great) team, playing in an embarrassingly bad conference.
While I generally can't stand most Hawk fans, I do actually feel bad for the players a little bit (I also feel bad for a few friends who are reasonable Hawk fans who spent thousands of bucks to go watch that crap festival). They got out classed so bad. They got exactly what most of us saw coming a mile away. I read somewhere (I can't find it now) that Standford is the only team they played all season that was in the top 50 in both defense and offense.
They would have been much better off in the bowl season if they had played one of the mid-level bowl game against some 6-6 or 7-5 team, which would have been far more representative of their level.
But for the tavern Hawks, loser Hawks, and foam-at-the-mouth type of Hawk Fans, I couldn't be happier with the beat down! 6 of 6 "experts" on the Hawkeye Nation page picked Iowa to win (2 of which picked the Hawks to win by 2 or more touchdowns), which shows just how delusional most are.