Look at their depth chart. They exhaust a LOT of eligibility. If I’m Kirk, I achieve my record and bail after this season. If we catch them in a rebuild we could embarrass them on their own field.
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Is Iowa so bad that we beat them and our ESPN FPI rank DROPS 7 places?
No, but I would have like to have Campbell starting after Bruce and still coaching today.
Just remember the FPI formula adds 15 points for being in the SEC and 12 points for being in the B1G
Funny how Kirk is on the verge of breaking the record for Big 10 wins when he already owns the record for Big 10 losses.
Takeaways from the game after rewatching:
-Our safeties played really well. Not having to worry about a passing game probably helps but a good sign.
-Bacon and Orange were dominant
-Our OL didn’t play great but they surprisingly dominated Graves who is their best DL
-TEU
-We could have and should have picked on #8 and #41 for Iowa more often. They were pretty bad.
-Heacock is great and I know Kirk runs that offense but I have no idea what their OC was trying to do. The slow mesh stuff is bizarre to implement.
-Gronowski has the worst vision I’ve ever seen from a D1 quarterback.
-We got a really bad whistle.
-Too many commercials.
-Our safeties played really well. Not having to worry about a passing game probably helps but a good sign.
-Bacon and Orange were dominant
-Our OL didn’t play great but they surprisingly dominated Graves who is their best DL
-TEU
-We could have and should have picked on #8 and #41 for Iowa more often. They were pretty bad.
-Heacock is great and I know Kirk runs that offense but I have no idea what their OC was trying to do. The slow mesh stuff is bizarre to implement.
-Gronowski has the worst vision I’ve ever seen from a D1 quarterback.
-We got a really bad whistle.
-Too many commercials.
What positions/areas are these?
I was kind of wanting to see ISU attack the middle of the 2nd level a bit more to keep heading downhill vs. side to side stuff.
#8 was one of their corners
#41 was one of their linebackers
The botched kickoff return had potential to really be costly. Getting the ball so close to our endzone was icky.
Why is everyone killing Sama. I thought he was just as good as Hanson yesterday and the stats annd eye test show that.
He also didn’t have a potentially back-breaking fumble in our own territory that was fortunate for us to get recovered.
He also didn’t have a potentially back-breaking fumble in our own territory that was fortunate for us to get recovered.
Orange being our second leading tackler (6 total) from the NG position in our defense against the vaunted Iowa OL is incredible to see. I’m not sure there was a player in the country that could have blocked him yesterday.
As currently shown on their depth chart they lose:
- 8 of 11 starters on offense
- 7 of 11 starters on defense.
-Their stud kicker
- Wetjen (Kick/Punt returner)
The vast majority of their offensive and defensive lines gone. That is the bread & butter of Iowa football. They will be breaking in a new quarterback as well. Whoof! I like Iowa State's chances of winning 4 of the last 5 in Kinnick next year.
This is the one week of the year, obviously contingent on the win, that I listen to all the hawk podcasts on IE and such. Great listening. 
It's one of those 'I'm going to stick to this one player situation being the reason ISU is failing' type of things that happens every basketball season too.
After the first quarter Iowa's run D was very solid and nobody was going to get chunks of yards.
I do like how Hansen can get downhill and crash for a few yards but neither back is a 20 carries/game type and I think they both give needed looks.
That’s a 10-2 Iowa team. Iowa’s beat reporters say so.
