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None on Michigan.  Don't know about Iowa.

Iowa is not perfect on punts, but close. 

I think Taylor had 1 punt blocked, against NW.  In another game he had 1 snap go through his legs where he had to run and fall on the ball.  I would blame the bad snap on the long snapper.

Oh there was also a time last year where Taylor dropped the ball and then kicked it.  Thats an illegal kick.  Taylor is from Australia.  I am not sure if he knew that at that time but he knows now.

But I do not think Iowa lost any games because of those mistakes

That would be absolutely assinine,like Paterno at one time was trying to groom his kid for the gig after Sandusky ""Retired".If i'm on the Board we have a search,tell sonny it's not a family business.There's someone on the staff they like but it's not him

Iowa starting CB Matt Hankins is out. Have not heard any starters out for Michigan.

Spencer Petras named starting QB for Iowa. By the way, how the hell is Riley Moss playing without a PCL in his knee? How does that even work. Sounds painful. Yikes.

I know you may not appreciate this, but Michigan should play Tresselball 

Blasphemer throw you on a pile with the witches and put you to the torch

I agree with most of that except for the part that PSU would have won if Clifford did not get hurt.  PSU early drives were mostly kept alive by Clifford running for 1st downs.  Typically in similar games when a team is scoring early with the QB running, the Iowa defense adjusts and shuts down the other team in the 2nd half.  The Nebraska game and Illinois game are great examples of this.  Iowa was down by double digits and clawed its way back in both games. Iowa probably would have done the same against PSU.  It was already 17-10 before the PSU backip even saw the field.  After Iowa went up 23-20 against PSU, the Iowa offense went very conservative because Kirk Ferentz knew PSU would not score again with its backup QB.  With or without Clifford, Iowa was going to get back in that game.

With all that said,  Iowa did none of those things against Purdue and Wisc following weeks after PSU.  Which was a little strange.  Jeff Brahm more than other coach, just seems to have Iowa figured out.  While Iowa defense seems to be good at adjusting to a running QB during a game,  they have never been able to shut down WR David  Bell.  It does not help that CB Riley Moss was out against Purdue and Wisc.  But DC Phil Parker gets strangely stubborn about not doing double coverage on any WR, even David Bell, and Iowa got burned.

Also I guess Purdue and Wisc are great examples of what happens to Iowa if they get no turnovers.  But PSU was turning the ball over against Iowa, which is why I think Iowa would have come back against PSU even with Clifford.

But I do agree that Iowa's schedule in hindsight was easier than first thought.  Iowa rose to #2 by blowing out #17 Ind, winning @ #9 Iowa State, blowing out @MD, and then beating #4 PSU.  All 4 teams ended up worse than everybody thought they were at the time Iowa played them. As it turned out, the best teams Iowa ended up.playing were in the Big Ten West. One can argue that MSU,  Mich and OSU also benefited from Rutgers, MD, Ind and PSU being worse than originally thought.  MSU especially also got lucky with its schedule, not having to play Wisc, Iowa, Minn or ILL.  We saw what happened to MSU against Purdue.

I am also disappointed Iowa's offense did not get better as the season dragged on.  The MD game gave Iowa fans false hope the offense was getting better.  Turns out scoring 50 on MD is no big deal.

I guess we will just go in circles on the Clifford argument since Clifford did not finish the Iowa game.  I am just saying the Iowa defense has a history of shutting down QB's like Clifford in the 2nd half of games,  and Iowa was only down by 7 points once the PSU backup QB entered the game.

I will agree however that the PSU backip was absolutely awful.  Possibly one of the worst performances I have ever seen from a backup QB.  That made Iowa's comeback much much easier.  I mean Iowa literally kneeled down 3 times on its 2nd last possession because it had so little confidence PSU would score on its last drive.  He was that bad.

I will also agree that Iowa is not as good as its 10-2 record and is going to lose badly to Michigan.