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road night games are a bitch. road night games at Kinnick are even more of a bitch. Wisconsin is gonna have a tough out.

Kinnick is where top teams go to get beat.

yeah it's a tough ass place to win a football game. We saw what they did to M in 2016 and to OSU last year.

I think the offenses are closer than you think.  I do think Wisconsin has the edge in the running game, but the passing game (especially sans Cephus) isn't much better than Iowa's.  Hornibrook hasn't exactly impressed this year so far.  If the Iowa D-line can establish some pressure, look for lots of Badger 3-and-outs (and yes, I fully expect plenty of Hawkeye 3-and-outs too).
It might come down to penalties, turnovers, and short fields.  Iowa needs Recinos to be sharp because they'll likely need every point they can get.  20 points probably would be enough to win this.

Stanley had over 80% completions vs. FCS competition last week. We cannot draw many conclusions from that performance. I thought the receivers played well against UNI. Many passes were thrown behind them and receivers reached back and got them, and were clobbered. If Stanley had been on target, you would have seen more scoring. In past weeks the receivers dropped balls. Iowa has issues offensively.

I agree with you. Hayden Fry brought passing back into the Big Ten, and I miss it.

These teams feature the 1970s Big Ten football Michigan and Ohio State featured, with less talent, but with fair proficiency. I suspect this aspect appeals to an HonestBuckeye to a degree.

Iowa-Wisconsin has been my favorite Big Ten rivalry since the 1970s. The schools are geographically close. The fanbases travel. I think I have been to Madison for games 5x. And as many times in Iowa City. Fans have fun with this rivalry.

When the Wisconsin band travels to Iowa City, on the Friday before the game they stop at a high school football field in Iowa and play.

Exactly. Both of these teams are extremely well coached, play great defense and special teams, run hard right at you to establish a TE based passing game, and are always extremely physical.  Big Ten football defined.   Love this matchup. 

Example A of why I think the CFP has diminished the regular season even farther, and why I think "best regular season" is sort of a farce now.  ESPNU radio was discussing most important games this weekend, and one of the co-hosts brought up this one saying it was a de facto West title game because the winner would essentially be 2 games ahead of the loser with tiebreaker, and they didn't see anyone else in the division posing a threat.  That was totally poo pooed by the other co-host, who basically said "so what, neither team is going to the Playoff."  When a Week 4 game between the best two teams in a Power 5 division is irrelevant because they aren't currently in the CFP race, I have a hard time saying that's the "best" regular season.  Maybe the regular season where a loss most greatly impacts you, but it to me seems like the sport with the greatest number of totally irrelevant regular season games, if the narrative is singularly focused on the CFP...which I think it has become.  My their logic, until proven otherwise, any game not involving Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, OSU or Oklahoma is irrelevant.

Amen!  Win some games, beat your rivals, drink some beer, sing your alma mater.  That's a good fall to me.

Very interesting game. WIsconsin losing last week was a shock, so I would assume they come into this week with something to prove. That being said, Kinnick at night? Yikes. THat's never an easy trip for any team. Really looking forward to this game.

Yeah, that's the really crappy thing about being the BTN night game.  It's rarely a big game, but when it's your team, you gotta watch...and usually miss other actually big games.