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Topic: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week

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ELA

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#22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« on: November 04, 2021, 03:02:00 PM »


#22 Iowa Hawkeyes (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern Wildcats (1-4, 3-5)
7:00 - Evanston, IL - BTN
The easy narrative is that Iowa's turnover luck ran out.  That's obviously part of it, but there is more to it, particularly with what Wisconsin was able to do.  Listening to Michael Felder break it down on the Athletic's college football podcast this week, the bigger issue is teams figuring out that Iowa's defensive pieces only seem to have one pitch.  Their secondary is outstanding in run support, and being able to crash down on ball carriers.  Against vertical routes, not so much.  Matt Nelson looked like a Thorpe Award frontrunner in September.  The past two games, he has been at best invisible, at worst a liability.  Particularly concerning is that last week was off the bye week.  If Purdue's coaches saw something, and exploited it, good on them.  Not being able to adjust with an extra week off for Iowa's coaches is a bit concerning.  Offensively, Iowa wants to run, but they just can't.  I'm not sure I've ever written that in one of these before.  The Hawkeyes are averaging just 2.8 ypc in Big Ten play, #13 in the conference.  Among the 7 Big Ten teams averaging below 4.1 ypc, only Rutgers is running the ball more often than Iowa, so they are sticking to their guns.  So getting off to a quicker start is a must.  Iowa fell behind 17-3 to Penn State, and needed a Sean Clifford injury to comeback.  They fell behind in the first quarter against Purdue, and same against Wisconsin.  They have led at no point during those two losses.  Iowa's run offense is just regular bad, Northwestern's run defense is a special kind of bad.  If there was ever an opponent to get some things on that line figured out against, it's this Northwestern team.  Let Spencer Petras get back to doing what he was doing earlier in the year, not the guy who has completed just 50% of his passes over the past two weeks, with no touchdowns, 4 interceptions, and been sacked 9 times.  part of that is Petras being exposed, and part of that is simply being an offense that cannot play from behind.  I doubt that'll be an issue this week.  If it is, Iowa's spiral could take them from #2 in the nation to a 7-5 finish.
IOWA 30, NORTHWESTERN 14

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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2021, 05:02:35 PM »
if i had to pick an upset in the big ten this would be the pick

just not sure if the fighting Fitz's will put it together.  they are usually good for an upset in their down years and its usually towards the end of the year

did this site have a upset game where you pick one upset and get the points they were underdogs if they won?
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2021, 05:39:16 PM »
Fitz has the ultimate HC job. Paid like an elite HC, and no one ever holds him accountable for seasons like this.
"It's Northwestern, they can't win every year."
All he has to do is make a run at a B1G West Title once every five years or so, and he's one of the greats.
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2021, 05:56:59 PM »
I could totally see NW come through with the upset. Iowa's offense is just that bad.
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2021, 05:57:22 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on November 04, 2021, 05:39:16 PM
Fitz has the ultimate HC job. Paid like an elite HC, and no one ever holds him accountable for seasons like this.
"It's Northwestern, they can't win every year."
All he has to do is make a run at a B1G West Title once every five years or so, and he's one of the greats.
Harbaugh would kill it there.
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2021, 06:17:17 PM »
Paid like an elite HC???

is PJ still making less?
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2021, 06:19:49 PM »
Quote from: Benthere2 on November 04, 2021, 05:02:35 PM
did this site have a upset game where you pick one upset and get the points they were underdogs if they won?
We used to, not sure if geo made it over.

That was always my favorite game
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2021, 06:24:18 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 04, 2021, 06:17:17 PM
Paid like an elite HC???

is PJ still making less?
Doesn't Fitz get like 5 million a year?
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2021, 06:29:44 PM »
$5,218,658

I guess your definition of elite might be different

1. Nick Saban Alabama $9.75 million 
2. Ed Orgeron LSU $9.01 million 
3. David Shaw Stanford $8.92 million -
4. Dabo Swinney Clemson $8.37 million 
5. Lincoln Riley Oklahoma $7.67 million 
6. Dan Mullen Florida $7.57 million 
7. Jimbo Fisher Texas A&M $7.5 million 
8. Kirby Smart Georgia $7.13 million 
9. Ryan Day Ohio State $6.61 million 
10. Gary Patterson TCU $6.10 million 

no wonder Gary Patterson was fired
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2021, 06:49:12 PM »
Well okay. He's in the upper 10% or so. That's pretty good. 
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2021, 06:50:42 PM »
cornsidering where the Wildcats might end up w/o Fritz, probably money well spent
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2021, 06:53:53 PM »
Well the last two HCs both won actual Big Ten Titles, so it's not exactly like he's reinventing the wheel here. 
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2021, 06:54:27 PM »
Half of the top 10 is SEC. I could make allusions to what sort of priorities these academic institutions really have, but that would be uncouth, so I shall not. 
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Re: #22 Iowa (3-2, 6-2) at Northwestern (1-4, 3-5) Game Week
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2021, 06:57:05 PM »
Brutus and MrNubbz are uncouth most of the time

what's the problem?
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