This seems to be the next stop in the Kirk Ferentz STFU redemption tour. While other schools were firing their head coaches and coordinaters and benching their QB's in mid-season, Kirk was insisting he had to change absolutely nothing and all they had to do was practice, practice, practice to get better. There may be some merit to this, Kirk has not lost a game in November since 2019. Which may be a sign that Iowa is built for games outdoors in the cold and the wind.
Of course it also helps to get Michigan and OSU behind you on the schedule, and it's still hard to explain just how bad the offense was the first 7 games of the season, and it's still debatable if the offense really has improved after only getting 146 yards against Wisc.
So let's not get carried away here. Everybody knows if Iowa does not get any breaks (takeaways), they lose because the offense is not capable of consistently winning games for Iowa. So I still rate this game a toss-up, Minn might even have a slight edge because it's at Minn. Nothing easy here.