They played an insanely soft schedule and played an Iowa offense that was historically awful. Both can be true.So you are now taking back the statement that "Do you not realize those teams basically played 11 regular season games but get credit for 12 because they played Iowa’s offense those two years?" Now it is about strength of schedule? Minnesota played 4 power 4 schools that got fewer points than Iowa so it is obvious that Iowa had less impact on Minnesota's #4 defensive than the 6 teams that had fewer points than Iowa.