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Unethusiastically, I will start this thread.
Ferentz hasn't had a bowl win, since after the 2010 season, and it was barely a win, 27-24, over Missouri in the Insight Bowl.
Boston College is a pretty good 7-5 team. It has wins over NIU, Louisville, and a 35-3 drubbing of FSU.
A bowl win was important coming into this season, but I can't say that was the reason Iowa allowed Wisconsin to blacktop them into the cold weather lower-obscurity bowl.

New York is a fun town, especially around New Years. If I didn't have plans to warm my butt in the Bahamas and on Grand Cayman, I might have considered freezing my butt onto a cold plastic seat.

I'd really like to see "bad loss Iowa" drub someone else out of relevancy, BC is the only opportunity you have to that to someone other than my Buckeyes.

Go Hawks.

The only thing interesting about Boston College to Iowa fans is that Iowa's former LB coach is now the DC for BC. 

 When Jim Ried was the LB coach at Iowa back in 2013, all 3 of his stating LB ended up in the NFL.  Also he really helped  mentor Iowa DC Phil Parker and help introduce some innovative schemes like the Raider package.

Of course, given Iowa's predictable offense, Jim Ried probably already has a plan to stop Iowa's offense.

The only thing interesting about Boston College to Iowa fans is that Iowa's former LB coach is now the DC for BC.

 When Jim Ried was the LB coach at Iowa back in 2013, all 3 of his stating LB ended up in the NFL.  Also he really helped  mentor Iowa DC Phil Parker and help introduce some innovative schemes like the Raider package.

Of course, given Iowa's predictable offense, Jim Ried probably already has a plan to stop Iowa's offense.

Didn't know Ried was the author of the Raider defense, which I haven't seen in 2017. It was effective when Iowa put it to use in past years, and it is confusing to O-Linemen.

Jules Yakapovich is the credited author of the "Radar" defense. Which is essentially the same as the "Raider" package Iowa used.  It's been around since the 70's.

I agree w/Fezz that Reid knows our runs schemes well and knows how to defend them. Our route trees have changed (GD --> BF) since the time he was here, though.

Overall, BC is surging. Both their O and D have improved greatly over the last half of the season.

If Iowa can run the ball and defend the run, they'll be in great shape. The exact same thing can be said for BC.

Bald eagle, no question.

But Hawkeyes aren't birds, they're badass sharpshooters during the colonial days (and definitely NOT goofy Army medics in the 1950s)

The winner will depend solely upon nonfootball factors, such as, who delivered papers in the freezing cold as children, and whose fingers freeze and splinter into pieces last.