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Gitwitit

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If you can't protect your QB, and you drop back to pass the ball 28 times in the first half alone, you are begging for trouble.
Slovis' backup Matt Fink is a stud as well. He had offers from Notre Dame, Washington, Washington State, Utah, USC, etc.

Slovis was probably the best qb Iowa faced all year.
 

TheBear

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Slovis' backup Matt Fink is a stud as well. He had offers from Notre Dame, Washington, Washington State, Utah, USC, etc.

Slovis was probably the best qb Iowa faced all year.

He was easily the best QB Iowa faced last year and combined with the WR’s SC was very talented. If they had a OL that could protect the QB SC would really have a potent offense.
 

Legend Hawk

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Slovis' backup Matt Fink is a stud as well. He had offers from Notre Dame, Washington, Washington State, Utah, USC, etc.

Slovis was probably the best qb Iowa faced all year.

No probably about it, Slovis was the best QB Iowa faced. Sucks for him that his coaches thought it was a good idea to have him pass the ball 28 times in the first half. That really exposed him and on passes #29 and #30 Iowa's D unloaded on him.
 

CyTwins

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Slovis' backup Matt Fink is a stud as well. He had offers from Notre Dame, Washington, Washington State, Utah, USC, etc.

Slovis was probably the best qb Iowa faced all year.

There was a huge talent gap between Slovis and Fink. Fink couldn't do anything and Slovis was picking Iowa apart
 

Brodie0

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Oklahoma State's offense wasn't elite? Texas wasn't? What about school's like UCF, SMU, or Memphis? Not good because they play against poor defenses. Why do some fan bases love to pop up their conference like it's the holy grail? Lol

According to SP+...

Offenses
1. Oklahoma (3)
2. Ohio St (4)
3. Minnesota (7)
4. Texas (10)
5. Wisconsin (12)
6. Penn St (13)
7. Michigan (21)
8. Indiana (22)
9. Oklahoma St (26)
10. Baylor (28)

Pretty comparable offenses at the top end. The Big Ten has more bad offenses though (4 of the worst 5 offenses between the two conferences).

Defense
1. Ohio St (2)
2. Iowa (6)
3. Penn St (10)
4. Michigan (11)
5. Michigan St (13)
6. Wisconsin (14)
7. Baylor (18)
8. Iowa State (25)
9. Minnesota (26)
10. Northwestern (27)

Defensively it’s not even close. The average Big Ten team has the 51st ranked offense and 36th ranked defense. The average Big XII team has the 46th ranked offense and the 56th ranked defense.

The offenses between the conferences are comparable, the defenses are not even close.
 

Aclone

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Only Twins would say Iowa couldn't stop a player they knocked out of the game. LOL
Slovis completed 73.3% of his passes in that game, for 8.7 yards/att.

if putting a player out of the game is the only way you can “stop” him, you’re not doing it right.

And if putting a player out of the game by injury is your goal or something you’re proud of, you’re a freaking psychopathic moron. Nothing more.
 

CyTwins

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According to SP+...

Offenses
1. Oklahoma (3)
2. Ohio St (4)
3. Minnesota (7)
4. Texas (10)
5. Wisconsin (12)
6. Penn St (13)
7. Michigan (21)
8. Indiana (22)
9. Oklahoma St (26)
10. Baylor (28)

Pretty comparable offenses at the top end. The Big Ten has more bad offenses though (4 of the worst 5 offenses between the two conferences).

Defense
1. Ohio St (2)
2. Iowa (6)
3. Penn St (10)
4. Michigan (11)
5. Michigan St (13)
6. Wisconsin (14)
7. Baylor (18)
8. Iowa State (25)
9. Minnesota (26)
10. Northwestern (27)

Defensively it’s not even close. The average Big Ten team has the 51st ranked offense and 36th ranked defense. The average Big XII team has the 46th ranked offense and the 56th ranked defense.

The offenses between the conferences are comparable, the defenses are not even close.

Crazy to think benjimill always used SP+ lists like this too
 

TheBear

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Slovis completed 73.3% of his passes in that game, for 8.7 yards/att.

if putting a player out of the game is the only way you can “stop” him, you’re not doing it right.

And if putting a player out of the game by injury is your goal or something you’re proud of, you’re a freaking psychopathic moron. Nothing more.

Iowa stopped SC other than knocking Slovis out of the game which is why Iowa led by 11 at half time. The Iowa DL was dominating the SC OL making it just a matter of time before Iowa forced a turnover regardless of who was playing QB.

Did you even watch the game?
 

clonedude

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Slovis was leading USC on a drive to take the lead over Iowa in the 3rd qtr when he got knocked out of the game. USC had all the momentum at the time. Fink was absolutely clueless what he was doing.

Let's also not forget that literally about 4 plays before Slovis left the game, Iowa was called for an illegal roughing the passer on Slovis as well.

USC's chances of winning that game went from about 60% to 0% when Slovis left the game. Anyone with two eyes could see that.... so to claim anything else is beyond stupid.

Iowa caught a break when Slovis left the game for sure.
 

Brodie0

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Slovis was leading USC on a drive to take the lead over Iowa in the 3rd qtr when he got knocked out of the game. USC had all the momentum at the time. Fink was absolutely clueless what he was doing.

Let's also not forget that literally about 4 plays before Slovis left the game, Iowa was called for an illegal roughing the passer on Slovis as well.

USC's chances of winning that game went from about 60% to 0% when Slovis left the game. Anyone with two eyes could see that.... so to claim anything else is beyond stupid.

Iowa caught a break when Slovis left the game for sure.

You’ve got that backwards. Iowa’s chances of winning before the play that Slovis went down was 60% according to ESPN’s win probability metric.
 

TheBear

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Slovis was leading USC on a drive to take the lead over Iowa in the 3rd qtr when he got knocked out of the game. USC had all the momentum at the time. Fink was absolutely clueless what he was doing.

Let's also not forget that literally about 4 plays before Slovis left the game, Iowa was called for an illegal roughing the passer on Slovis as well.

USC's chances of winning that game went from about 60% to 0% when Slovis left the game. Anyone with two eyes could see that.... so to claim anything else is beyond stupid.

Iowa caught a break when Slovis left the game for sure.

I didn’t know 2 plays were a drive one of which was the play he got injured on.

Anyone with eyes could see Iowa scored TD’s every time they had the ball and the game was in doubt. Why do clone fans continue to ignore that?
 

Legend Hawk

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Slovis completed 73.3% of his passes in that game, for 8.7 yards/att.

if putting a player out of the game is the only way you can “stop” him, you’re not doing it right.

And if putting a player out of the game by injury is your goal or something you’re proud of, you’re a freaking psychopathic moron. Nothing more.

If you are playing a good D with an elite pass rushing D end and you wanna throw it 28 times in a half that is on USC staff exposing the kid to the hits he was gonna take. Don't blame me for USC coaching staff not understanding the basics.
 

CyTwins

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If you are playing a good D with an elite pass rushing D end and you wanna throw it 28 times in a half that is on USC staff exposing the kid to the hits he was gonna take. Don't blame me for USC coaching staff not understanding the basics.

Iowa's secondary was pretty easy to pick apart so you can't blame them