Apparently Steward Mandel believes so, again. He came up short in Week 1.
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Liked the picture of Iowa's #1 receiver and running back. Let's make it 1-0 again for Week 2, Hawks!
No. 10 Iowa at No. 9 Iowa State (-4.5), 4:30 p.m. (ABC)
When doing my preseason predictions, I had the Hawkeyes losing to Indiana last week, then upsetting their rivals. So, after throttling the Hoosiers and adding even more juice to this historic Cy-Hawk showdown … I’m picking against Iowa again. Mostly because I can’t see Iowa State blowing its moment in the sun. Iowa State 27, Iowa 24![theathletic.com](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.theathletic.com%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2021%2F09%2F08214319%2FGettyImages-1338825425-scaled.jpg&hash=a0f8b8bf7a356ec89a62b2dbb279ee97&return_error=1)
Stewart Mandel’s Week 2 college football picks against the spread
The Week 2 slate features a top-10 matchup in the state of Iowa and two traveling Pac-12 teams to the Big Ten.
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Liked the picture of Iowa's #1 receiver and running back. Let's make it 1-0 again for Week 2, Hawks!