72 straight games-time for this to end!

TrojanHawkeye

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Hear ye, hear ye...all great, good or even potentially near good quarterback and wide receiver recruits, do not go near the Iowa football program for the reasons listed above. That is all
 

Ironman39

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Dec 10, 2024
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Hear ye, hear ye...all great, good or even potentially near good quarterback and wide receiver recruits, do not go near the Iowa football program for the reasons listed above. That is all
They don't go here because of window dressing?




P.S. I'm playing devil's advocate so he who shall not be named does not............. ;)
 

QChawks

Heisman
Dec 17, 2022
11,127
23,632
113
Streak GIF
 

LIV4GOD

All-Conference
Oct 2, 2001
526
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Iowa has gone 72 consecutive games with out getting 300 yards. If we are looking at a 9/10 win season this has to end soon and need to start a streak of 300+ yeards in a game. Go Hawks!
We got 313 yds last game.
 

Jonesy5960

Heisman
Feb 1, 2023
6,011
12,426
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Iowa has gone 72 consecutive games with out getting 300 passing yards. If we are looking at a 9/10 win season this has to end soon and need to start a streak of 300+ yards passing in a game. Go Hawks!
Iowa isn't throwing for 300 yards this year. It's a huge struggle just getting to 200 which has only happened once against UMASS. There are no more Umass"s on the schedule. Iowa's best offense is simply leveraging Gronowski by using his legs. He's a much more confident and efficient runner than he is a passer. Lester will keep using a lot of motion and short passes to keep defenses leaning the wrong way and getting beat. The wide receivers are going to be blocking and catching 3-5 yard swing passes. That's what the Iowa offense does well today.
 

oldxbbc

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Sep 19, 2013
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Iowa isn't throwing for 300 yards this year. It's a huge struggle just getting to 200 which has only happened once against UMASS. There are no more Umass"s on the schedule. Iowa's best offense is simply leveraging Gronowski by using his legs. He's a much more confident and efficient runner than he is a passer. Lester will keep using a lot of motion and short passes to keep defenses leaning the wrong way and getting beat. The wide receivers are going to be blocking and catching 3-5 yard swing passes. That's what the Iowa offense does well today.
Good reply. Hope a few more w's are coming!
 

uihawk82

All-Conference
Nov 17, 2021
2,527
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Iowa has gone 72 consecutive games with out getting 300 passing yards. If we are looking at a 9/10 win season this has to end soon and need to start a streak of 300+ yards passing in a game. Go Hawks!
Passing for 150 yards per game with 200 yards rushing is a winning formula. A game with 200 yards of each would be great.

If Minny does not have much pass rush then we might take some deep shots. I want to see Wetjen on a go/fly pattern deep
 

Jonesy5960

Heisman
Feb 1, 2023
6,011
12,426
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If Minny does not have much pass rush then we might take some deep shots. I want to see Wetjen on a go/fly pattern deep
It's possible, but they've only hit one long pass through 7 games. It's way more likely to end up an interception or incomplete pass. I think Lester has figured out what Gronowski's strength is, and it's not throwing the ball downfield.
 
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HawkAlum2002

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Oct 18, 2017
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Iowa has only had 48 times where a QB has thrown for 300 yards (I imagine there are at least a couple games we reached 300 between two QBs but those aren't as easy to find). 26 wins, 21 losses and a tie. Throwing for 300 in and of itself is hardly a winning formula, especially considering how many of these 300 (and 400) yard games were against pre-1995 Northwestern when Hayden didn't mind running it up on them. We lost the only 500 yard game with Chuck Hartlieb against Indiana in 1988.

Beutjer 0-1
Christensen 0-1
Cilek 0-1
Gales 0-1
Chuck Hartlieb 4-3-1
Jim Hartlieb 0-1
Chuck Long 7-1
Mullen 0-3
Rudock 2-2
Sherman 1-2
Snook 0-2
Stanley 5-0
Stanzi 1-0
Tate 5-2
Treadway 0-1
Vandenberg 1-0
 

oldxbbc

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Sep 19, 2013
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That’s funny. We’ve had three 9/10 win seasons during that streak.
I realize that, was saying what I said because of Oregon, at USC and at Nebraska. My opinion is that running is going to need some big time passing assistance if we are going to be sucessful.
 

rchawk

All-American
Oct 27, 2001
74,662
9,373
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Iowa has gone 72 consecutive games with out getting 300 passing yards. If we are looking at a 9/10 win season this has to end soon and need to start a streak of 300+ yards passing in a game. Go Hawks!
The difference between 2025 and past several seasons, it could happen.
 
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BioHawk2

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Jun 29, 2025
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Iowa has gone 72 consecutive games with out getting 300 passing yards. If we are looking at a 9/10 win season this has to end soon and need to start a streak of 300+ yards passing in a game. Go Hawks!
Probably not this season. We just need enough of a passing game to make the defense not line up with 8 or 9 people in the box all game.
 
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KurtWarner

All-Conference
Nov 30, 2025
865
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That is amazing honestly, in a bad way. How does a team even do that without trying to do that
 
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