In the meantime, ISU has snatched "best team in the state" away from Iowa. Glad we played them when we did, because Iowa State would probably destroy Iowa if they played this weekend.
That said, lots of growing pains this year. The defense is holding its own, but probably doing a little too much "bending" for my liking. Part of the reason why Iowa stinks on offense is that they tend to start with piss-poor field position. It's hard to score points when your offense has 85+ yards of green a significant percentage of the time. Poor execution and all-around sloppiness are just two more ingredients to a pretty pathetic recipe.
And it's maddening because at the very least, the passing game is showing some potential. Stanley *finally* connected on a deep pass, and the pass protection is definitely improved. They are still way too reliant on the run when it clearly is not working this year - if Iowa is going to have any chance of hanging with teams like Wisconsin or OSU, they need to start chucking it early and often and hope it opens up the run game. They just can't run the ball 60% of the time this year.
