Still a better than average defense…top 20 scoring defense. So, stick that
Say what you will ... but the Iowa defense still didn't uphold their standard last season. They had good games ... and were still pretty solid. But they also had their issues too.
Of course the part about Phil was only sarcasmfor having the courage to say what everyone's thinking but nobody's admitting
Career full of fake stats and rankings due to crappy weak scheduling. Any talk of the Hawk D being great is all BS. This crappy D gets its ass kicked by any offense with a pulse. Think the D was garbage this year wait until this year! going to get real UGLY!
The Big Ten West was the greatest gift ever given to an institution.
You’re stupid. 2021-2023 would have been even better if they weren’t on the field so much.
Iowa won a lot of ballgames before the big ten West.
Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois. Winning is hard every game.
Imagine if OP stopped posting. Oh happy day.
Give it up grandpa. This ain't 1975. Teams actually score a lot of points this century. Just because the offense wasn't BF last in nation bad doesn't mean it was very good and just because the defense wasn't top 5 doesn't mean it wasn't still very good. Last year the Iowa defense was 11th in the nation in scoring allowed and 20th in yards allowed. It was ranked as the 17th most efficient in the country. Hardly a bad year by any standard except for that of a befuddled Iowa fan.
Any perceived shortcomings by our defense in that 3-year stretch was 100% due to our offense not just failing to pull their weight…but playing at such a poor level that they were actively hurting our defense.
Killed us in the BTCGs against Michigan. That, and their blatant cheating.
Big ten west summary all teams combined
We were being generous to the East teams. They're the poverty programs of the B10.
And the facts are Iowa > the rest of the B10 > your version of Iowa.
Not years......................months.
Who you picking, the Fuskers or the Goofs?We were being generous to the East teams. They're the poverty programs of the B10.
And the facts are Iowa > the rest of the B10 > your version of Iowa.
Deal with it.
Not years......................months.
I'd rather see Minnesota be better than Nebraska because we'll always be better than Minnesota.
The D was no-doubt legit. Not a paper-tiger, as some have suggested.
To be fair (not that Michigan would), Iowa knew about the sign-stealing before the 2nd title game vs Michigan. So I'm sure they changed up the signals.
The offense turned the ball over 6 times vs that Ohio State team and for sure 4 of those and I can’t remember but I want to say 5 of those 6 were inside our own 40. That defense played a hell of a game as both Urban Meyer and Reggie Bush were left speechless about how bad that offense played and how the defense kept running out to put fires out.
Maybe they played a little better than I remember. Probably tough for my memory to get past the 54 points
Feth, All, McNamara, Large, Hill.
Well, we had Deac then in the second one and a porous pass blocking. They knew to pressure Deac and make it even worse. Our defense was stellar in that game.
Not sure if you're still alluding to the sign stealing. But everyone knew how to pressure Deac. Michigan was just better at it
