add Minnesota and Purdue to the schedule
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You are delusional. The Big 12 has more ranked teams in the AP Poll than the B1G with two less teams. Michigan State is not a good football team.
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Titled a mess for the BIG Legends Division. Must have been reading our threads.
Titled a mess for the BIG Legends Division. Must have been reading our threads.
MSUs offense is horrible but they have the best defense in the country probably. They will probably win 6-7 games.
Really? You should probably inform the NCAA of this outrage.
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What team won the 1958 college football national championship
UW running game>>>>Minny's running game. From the Oline to the back getting the ball. It should be an interesting matchup. My problem is your undersized LBs will start to wear down by years end. They have done that consistently and I see this year as no different.
I will say a team that can throw will eat Iowa alive. You guys will probably goo bowling and could get waylaid by a team that runs an effective spread.
Congrats. There were 16 selectors in 1958 that picked National Champions. Yes... 16 of them. LSU was crowned the National Champions by 15 out of the 16. A relatively new group without much credibility selected Iowa as theirs.
It was a split as usual. Play enough patsies without losing and this could happen. Doesn't Iowa still own the longest string of losing seasons in the NCAA?
Seriously though, I would have thought based on these comments that Iowa won by 60, and not 6 in Ames.
I don't think those linebackers are as undersized as you're leading us to believe:
Kirksey: 6-2 235
Morris: 6-2 240
Hitchens: 6-1 233
It will be an interesting matchup when Wisconsin rolls into Iowa City in November. Iowa has a pretty decent run defense and Wisconsin has one of the best run blocking O-lines year in and year out in the entire country. Combine that with the stable of running backs the Badgers have and it will easily be the best running game that Iowa will face all season.
I have always doubted Kirkseys listed height. And playing the type of teams they play, they have worn down in almost every season. Morris and Kirksey the most notably.
I think you're mostly on the mark. Morris is 240+ now so he's not as undersized as he has been the past three years trying to play the middle. Obviously Wisco's line and running game is far better than Minney's. But the big reason the LBs have underperformed the past few years has been the play of our DL. They weren't doing well at keeping the OL off the 'backers, so add smaller LBs to that equation and you get worn down guys who struggle stuffing the run. This year our DL play has been much, much better. Nothing is being given up between the tackles, and they're not going balls out to get in the QBs face. So while the sack numbers aren't impressive, the opposing QBs we've played, three of whom are pretty mobile, haven't gotten much of anything scrambling.
Wisco is another beast altogether. But I think we'll be up for that one and could get those goofy b*astards.
Stave played much better than I thought was possible for him vs OSU. Part of that was that OSU refused to double Abbrederis but still that worries me. If he plays that well, Iowa won't beat Wisconsin.
This game will barometer Iowa's year IMO. Win it, adn the enthusiasm is back. I think a Nebby win would do that as well. Lose, and people will still be grumpy.
You get OSU out early enough that people can get the bad taste out of the mouth. And I expect it to be bad. Meyer is a merciless bastard, and will try to get his QB on the Heisman shortlist in this game.
I think we'll be in it against Ohio St. right up until kickoff. Things'll probably start going south after that. Hopefully KF will start milking the clock in the 1st quarter and it doesn't end up looking too bad.
Stave is a decent QB. Wisconsin presents one of those pick your poison situations. Their running game is so good that you really need to put extra guys in the box to slow them down on the ground but that leaves the defense in a situation where they are playing a lot of single coverage. The interesting thing I noticed in the Ohio State - Wisconsin game was that the hot shot corner for the Buckeyes was unable to stay with Abbrederis. He held him on virtually every route, grabbed his jersey, grabbed his arms, etc... The guy could have been called for defensive holding or pass interference on virtually every ball thrown to Abbrederis. For a former walk on that kid has some serious game.
