Nebraska being playoff caliber is probably a stretch. Otherwise I think 7-8 wins is more realistic than 9-10 honestly. couldn't afford offense to take a step back this year with all the new starters on defense and I think that's what happened.
I wouldn’t call Iowa’s 2nd half of the schedule easy. It isn’t a gauntlet, but there’s 4-5 solid to good teams remaining.
Correct…also after this week…Nebraska’s schedule becomes much more challenging. They won’t be playing for CFP when they come to Iowa City for the Black Friday game.
We haven’t look good at all. We just happen to be 4-1. How’s that wrong or overreacting?
We'll be late to that party. Nebraska will be lucky to win 7 games.
Nebraska always pulls a Maryland early in the season, drop 60 against nobodies then collapse in B1G play. They just got lucky they get to play 2 of the bottom 5 teams in the conference to start.
If Bten west was still a thing it'd be incredibly competitive this year
We also had 4 turnovers, two nfl tight ends, and had their best defender ejected for targeting.
Well…..
Nope I don’t. Like I said in this (and other posts) the reality doesn’t look good.
Just matters in terms of what goal is. If it's playoffs which maybe unrealistic I'd be concerned. If it's 7-8 wins I think we'll be ok
I mean cmon. We knew going into this game we needed to play a perfect game. Instead we turned the ball over right away, and instead of playing to win early we had a 2nd and 2 in OSU territory and had 2 incomplete passes and then kicked a field goal. Kirk talked out of his *** about needing to score more points and then he curls up. We needed touchdowns to win today. OSU is still probably the best team in the country. Some upcoming games look harder than we thought but I’m still pretty confident we’ll be in every game we play moving forward.
All the fans who predicted Iowa to start the season 5-0 have been proven wrong, and they are really mad.
This is accurate. Those teams are all much better from what I’ve seen. If I had to guess, will end up 8-4 or 9-3. We’re definitely not good enough to run the table.
That's not quite true. Gilmore our WR only had 6 less receptions and 60 less receiving yards than Iowa's whole team today. We have a stable of WR we can run out there at any given time. Freshman RB Rule looks like he's that dude. Can't wait to get him back next week. The TE Lindenmeyer is a solid all around player and the OLine is vastly improved after removing Uncle Donny as coach. There's a lot of talent on both sides of the ball for Nebraska, by far our most talented team in awhile. Now we just need to cut down on the penalties, 16 is not gonna cut it moving forward. We might be the most penalized team in the B1G right now. That's not gonna win you many ball games against the majority of these B1G teams.
Hope you're right. I could see going 2-2 in the next 4 with Wisconsin at home and road games against Washington, Minnesota and Northwestern. That would leave us 6-3 with home games against Purdue and Nebraska and on the road against Illinois. It wouldn't be crazy to go 8-4 or hope for 9-3. jmo
Nebraska has played a pathetically weak schedule thus far. We played OSU and at Michigan. They played the two worst teams in the league as well as a horrible non league schedule.
Isn’t it wild that we can be so incredibly inferior that the other team can make a bunch of mistakes and be average (at best) for, like, half the game, YET we are still said to have needed a “perfect game”?
Once again hope you're right...I think Northwestern looks pretty good and Minnesota on the road also will be tough.
Correct, we could lose to Minny, Whiskey, Washington, Nebraska and we are going to lose at Northwestern.
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