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Friday, October 13, 2006

What's next for the Hawkeyes? 

Nearly two weeks have passed since the Iowa Hawkeyes were humbled 38-17 by the #1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. The anxiety and gloom that preceded that contest was of course magnified considerably by the outcome. When the Gameday folks packed up and left Iowa City, the 4-1 Hawkeyes were dismissed from the national scene, and Hawk fans were left wringing their hands over the fate of their team, some wondering whether a total collapse was imminent.

But then a funny thing happened. Iowa pummeled the Purdue Boilermakers 47-17 moving the ball well and slowing down the leading offense in the Big Ten. The now 5-1 Hawkeyes, it turns out, may not be horrible after all.

Tomorrow Iowa travels to Bloomington to face a not so good Indiana Hoosier team, a game which should be all but over mid-way through the 3rd quarter. Barring an upset, Iowa will be 6-1 in a week when they travel to Ann Arbor to face a very good and currently undefeated Michigan team. At the moment, pundits are looking ahead to the Michigan-Ohio State game to determine which of these two teams plays in the national championship game, but Ferentz coached Hawkeye teams have tended to get stronger as the season goes on, so I think such talk is premature. Not that I'd do anything foolish like predict an Iowa victory or anything...

2 Comments:

By Blogger Charlottesvillain, at Fri Oct 13, 01:27:00 PM:

"The Hawkeyes play a very weak schedule, and but for that would be a 7-5 team."

You're trying to say that the Hawkeyes are bad. I guess we'll get another measuring stick next week. The conference is what the conference is, and Iowa gets both Michigan and Ohio State. If the Hawkeyes are better than most of their opponents, well they should win a lot of games. If they were worse, they'd lose more games.

I'm not worried about the SEC. Iowa has defeated strong SEC teams 2 of the past 3 years, and lost the third by a touchdown (their chance to tie taken from them by a terrible call on an onside kick).  

By Blogger TigerHawk, at Sun Oct 15, 04:27:00 PM:

Wolfen:

"effectively a bye week"...

Oops.  

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