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Unless JJ improves a lot, I suspect he'll make some costly mistakes this week.  He did not have good pocket presence against MD.  I don't know if it'll be enough for Iowa to win, but I am expecting a close game.

Ed Zachery, but it's a better chance for the West than the other two matchups

6:30pm game in Lincoln will help keep it close

based on computers

It was a bounceback week for the East as they extended their lead over the West to 5-3.  It was a fairly chalky week overall though as all of the favored teams won fairly comfortably.  Here were the results:

Michigan 27, Iowa 14

Penn State 17, Northwestern 7

Nebraska 35, Indiana 21

This week, the East has 2 home games, but Vegas is predicting that they will be very close games:

Nebraska -3 @ Rutgers

Purdue +3 @ Maryland

I don't think anyone would be shocked if the West tied things up at 5-5 here.

Didn't happen

He only really had the one costly mistake, but the game was fairly well in hand by then.  The real shocker to me of this game was how dominant the Michigan OL was.  I was expecting Iowa to cause more issues in the run game, but Michigan was chewing up lots of yards.  Good job by Michigan to be disciplined and taking what the defense gave them.

He only really had the one costly mistake, but the game was fairly well in hand by then.  The real shocker to me of this game was how dominant the Michigan OL was.  I was expecting Iowa to cause more issues in the run game, but Michigan was chewing up lots of yards.  Good job by Michigan to be disciplined and taking what the defense gave them.

on rewatch, it wasn't really that bad a mistake by JJ. yeah he probably should've just ate it and taken the sack, but the bad mistake was by RT Trente Jones- who tried to double team an Iowa DT inside with the RG and left Iowa's edge rusher completely unblocked and untouched to the QB to take a free kill shot on JJ while JJ was attempting a pass. Jones has had issues in pass protection all-season. Even vs the scrub OOC slate. He's been a dominant run blocker but if he doesn't fix his pass protection issues and fast- well then he needs to hit the bench and they need to try out a right tackle that doesn't make those kind of mistakes.

I thought JJ played an A- game. IF JJ had just hit that deep ball to a wide open Wilson in the end zone instead of overthrowing by a couple years- kid would've literally played a near flawless game. He didn't force anything and just tried to take what the defense gave him- and he had some really nice sideline and intermediate throws where he fit balls accurately in tight spaces. His arm really jumps out. I think he's got the most raw horsepower in that arm of any QB in the conference. He can really sling it.

seems very similar to the past 3 or 4 seasons

East top and bottom heavy