I think it will be a slobberknocker of a game. Iowa will go up early 10-0. Our defense will settle down and our first score will come on a turnover returned for a TD right before the half. ISU will come out and score a TD on their first drive of the second half and take a 14-10 lead. Blows will be dealt back and forth and each team will turn the ball over to end promising drives. Then 1 of 2 things will happen:
1) ISU will need 1 first down in order to secure the win late. We fail on a 3rd and 1 play ran from the shotgun. Iowa gets the ball back with a short field and 3 timeouts in their pocket. They drive down the field and punch it into the endzone with seconds remaining on the clock. Hawk fans call for the benching of Rudock and resignation of Kirk Ferentz. In Hawk fan's mind they should never beat an inferior ISU team by a mere 3 points.
ISU 14
Iowa 17
2) ISU will need 1 first down in order to secure the win late. We fail on a 3rd and 1 play ran from the shotgun. Iowa gets the ball back with a short field and 3 timeouts in their pocket. They drive down the field and look as if they will score the winning TD late. Rudock drops back to pass and sees a wide open Hawk receiver in the endzone. The ball is tipped at the line and picked off by an ISU linebacker. Hawk fans immediately clog the airwaves on various sports talk programs to demand that Kirk Ferentz be fired. Jake Rudock is ostracized by all hawk fans and they demand he be cut immediately. Excuses about poor officiating will be made. Hawk fans will say that they lost only because this is ISU's super bowl and the hawks never get up to play such an inferior opponent. Hawk fan will cry that the series needs to be discontinued because it is no benefit to them. Hawk fan believes that a perennial national championship contender like Iowa should never have to play a MAC level opponent like ISU. Hawk fans settle down after the drunk wears off and start speculating about Iowa's chance to make the playoff with their inevitable 12-1 record.
ISU 14
Iowa 10
1) ISU will need 1 first down in order to secure the win late. We fail on a 3rd and 1 play ran from the shotgun. Iowa gets the ball back with a short field and 3 timeouts in their pocket. They drive down the field and punch it into the endzone with seconds remaining on the clock. Hawk fans call for the benching of Rudock and resignation of Kirk Ferentz. In Hawk fan's mind they should never beat an inferior ISU team by a mere 3 points.
ISU 14
Iowa 17
2) ISU will need 1 first down in order to secure the win late. We fail on a 3rd and 1 play ran from the shotgun. Iowa gets the ball back with a short field and 3 timeouts in their pocket. They drive down the field and look as if they will score the winning TD late. Rudock drops back to pass and sees a wide open Hawk receiver in the endzone. The ball is tipped at the line and picked off by an ISU linebacker. Hawk fans immediately clog the airwaves on various sports talk programs to demand that Kirk Ferentz be fired. Jake Rudock is ostracized by all hawk fans and they demand he be cut immediately. Excuses about poor officiating will be made. Hawk fans will say that they lost only because this is ISU's super bowl and the hawks never get up to play such an inferior opponent. Hawk fan will cry that the series needs to be discontinued because it is no benefit to them. Hawk fan believes that a perennial national championship contender like Iowa should never have to play a MAC level opponent like ISU. Hawk fans settle down after the drunk wears off and start speculating about Iowa's chance to make the playoff with their inevitable 12-1 record.
ISU 14
Iowa 10
