Iowa broke records in this game!

[Eternal Return]

Woohoo! The 66 yards of total offense was the worst in Kirk Ferentz's 19 years. Yes, worse than any offensive production his first team had (the team that won one game all year). More importantly, Iowa helped Wisconsin break its all-time record for allowing the fewest yards to a B10 opponent. I will write that again just in case you missed it. Since 1896, the first year of the B10 conference, 120 seasons of B10 football, the University of Wisconsin Badgers broke their record for fewest yards allowed by their defense against a B10 opponent's offense. They've had 56 losing records in the B10. None of those bad, horrible teams held an opponent's offense to fewer yards than they did to the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday.

Congratulations, Hawkeyes offense. You did it! You left your mark on Iowa football history! I doubt any Hawkeye fans that saw this game will ever forget it.

 

[scotthawk1964]

And your point is? Just which Iowa coach or player do you expect will read this? No, only us, the fans will read it as I am sure none of the coaching staff or players waste there time coming to read this forum, so essentially your congratulating no one.

 

[Eternal Return]

And your point is? Just which Iowa coach or player do you expect will read this? No, only us, the fans will read it as I am sure none of the coaching staff or players waste there time coming to read this forum.

My point is that I still need to vent about the worst offensive game I've ever seen an Iowa team play. Is that okay? Would you rather I applaud the punt coverage? What are you offering other than snark toward posters who don't toe the line? I would think this information is of interest to other fans. Do you honestly think I wrote it for the coaches? Why the hell would I do anything like that. This is a site for fans to share with other fans.

 

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I was fortunate enough to be too busy to watch the game live, and didn't hear the score while I was fast forwarding thru the game.

I watched the first Iowa series of the 2nd half and I couldn't stomach any more. At that point I knew it was best to go lightning fast forward to the bitter end. Clearly after seeing the total game stats it was the best decision I've ever made......

 

[scotthawk1964]

My point is that I still need to vent about the worst offensive game I've ever seen an Iowa team play. Is that okay? Would you rather I applaud the punt coverage? What are you offering other than snark toward posters who don't toe the line? I would think this information is of interest to other fans. Do you honestly think I wrote it for the coaches? Why the hell would I do anything like that. This is a site for fans to share with other fans.

I will agree with you that the punt coverage and the punting in general sucked, but I think that is been true all year

 

[Flying_Tiger]

Woohoo! The 66 yards of total offense was the worst in Kirk Ferentz's 19 years. Yes, worse than any offensive production his first team had (the team that won one game all year). More importantly, Iowa helped Wisconsin break its all-time record for allowing the fewest yards to a B10 opponent. I will write that again just in case you missed it. Since 1896, the first year of the B10 conference, 120 seasons of B10 football, the University of Wisconsin Badgers broke their record for fewest yards allowed by their defense against a B10 opponent's offense. They've had 56 losing records in the B10. None of those bad, horrible teams held an opponent's offense to fewer yards than they did to the Iowa Hawkeyes on Saturday.

Congratulations, Hawkeyes offense. You did it! You left your mark on Iowa football history! I doubt any Hawkeye fans that saw this game will ever forget it.

Why stop at the Ferentz era? I'd be curious as to how far back you have to go to find an Iowa team that had less in a game? If this isn't at the top, it has to be close.

 

[Eternal Return]

I will agree with you that the punt coverage and the punting in general sucked, but I think that is been true all year

I actually meant that the punt coverage was good yesterday. The punt returns. Yikes. But, more importantly, the game has been purged from my system after venting. I'm back to, "Meh, better to get blown out in that game than get to a really good bowl and get blown out there." It was a shitty game, a shitty day, but it's over. Time to look ahead at a very winnable Purdue game at home.

 

[Eternal Return]

Why stop at the Ferentz era? I'd be curious as to how far back you have to go to find an Iowa team that had less in a game? If this isn't at the top, it has to be close.

I couldn't find records going back that far and didn't care to look, personally. I'm sure you'd have to go back pretty far to find a worse game offensively. Maybe the worst ever, I don't know.

 

[Wasnt-drunk-didnt-troll]

So again I will say we need to line up every 4th down in a punt/pass option for stanley. He can hit it as far as our punters and if he sees something he likes he can make an easy pitch and catch.

 

[Suterman]

Goodbye Eternal Return I hardly knew ye.