SI destroys Iowa by the numbers

[tweeterhawk]

Brutal, just brutal.

To say that a team had no answer for an opponent in a matchup would often imply that the game featured some form of back-and-forth on both sides of the ball. But in Penn State’s dominant 31-0 victory over Iowa on Saturday, the Hawkeyes’ final stats were so insane that it was almost hard to believe.

https://www.si.com/college/2023/09/24/penn-state-iowa-stats-brian-ferentz-reactions

 

[rrdd2021]

Take a trip to any fan board and they're all laughing. PSU has a decent defense but not that good. I really feel for you guys as your fan base doesn't deserve this insane nepotism.

 

[Greenway4Prez]

This is what a portion of our fan base doesn’t understand; it’s difficult to be this bad on offense. Going up against great defenses doesn’t have to be a death sentence. It isn’t for even the cupcake teams on the schedules of PSU, Georgia, Bama, OSU, Michigan, etc.

Take a trip to any fan board and they're all laughing. PSU has a decent defense but not that good. I really feel for you guys as your fan base doesn't deserve this insane nepotism.

I’m going to quibble a bit with this. PSU has a top 5 defense, easily.

 

[yiana]

We’re gonna see WRs transfer at the end of the season (again)

 

[rrdd2021]

I’m going to quibble a bit with this. PSU has a top 5 defense, easily.

Based on what? The only two name teams they've played are Illinois and Iowa who, along with Northwestern, probably have the worst 3 offenses in the B1G......total ZERO offenses. You think they're going to do the same to OSU and Michigan? Think again. Their OOC schedule was PATHETIC. They're very good but you're smoking some strong $hit if you think they're top 5

 

[redghost1974]

We’re gonna see WRs transfer at the end of the season (again)

Who is left to transfer?

 

[KCLion]

Based on what? The only two name teams they've played are Illinois and Iowa who, along with Northwestern, probably have the worst 3 offenses in the B1G......total ZERO offenses. You think they're going to do the same to OSU and Michigan? Think again. Their OOC schedule was PATHETIC. They're very good but you're smoking some strong $hit if you think they're top 5

Will be interesting to see where WVU finishes (3-1 currently).

 

[General Tso]

We’re gonna see WRs transfer at the end of the season (again)

Maybe St Ambrose has some recievers worth looking at

 

[Greenway4Prez]

Based on what? The only two name teams they've played are Illinois and Iowa who, along with Northwestern, probably have the worst 3 offenses in the B1G......total ZERO offenses. You think they're going to do the same to OSU and Michigan? Think again. Their OOC schedule was PATHETIC

No, they’re not going to do the same to OSU and Michigan because those two teams have offenses capable of doing things. Even the best defenses in CFB have games where they give up yards and points. Penn State had a top 10/ top 5 defense last year even though they gave up 40+ to both OSU and Michigan. Georgia’s all-world defense of 2021 allowed 41 to Bama.

Look, I don’t have any love lost for Penn State. But their defense is legit.

 

[OutbackBowl2017]

We’re gonna see WRs transfer at the end of the season (again)

Don’t use them anyway so really doesn’t matter.

 

[rrdd2021]

No, they’re not going to do the same to OSU and Michigan because those two teams have offenses capable of doing things. Even the best defenses in CFB have games where they give up yards and points. Penn State had a top 10/ top 5 defense last year even though they gave up 40+ to both OSU and Michigan. Georgia’s all-world defense of 2021 allowed 41 to Bama.

Look, I don’t have any love lost for Penn State. But their defense is legit.

Very legit - I agree but NOT "top 5 - easily.".

 

[tweeterhawk]

Maybe St Ambrose has some recievers worth looking at

Or Bill and Mary.

 

[rrdd2021]

Will be interesting to see where WVU finishes (3-1 currently).

WVU has beaten Duquesne, a super weak Pitt, and Texas Tech. Let's see how all of this plays out when they get to real teams.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

Kirk will have to draw receivers from the old Iowa Conference

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

We have wide receivers. Hum that’s nice to know.

 

[iahawks10]

We have wide receivers. Hum that’s nice to know.

There’s Nico Rag-eye-eenie and at least one more, I think. I know I’ve seen Nico out there.

 

[KCLion]

WVU has beaten Duquesne, a super weak Pitt, and Texas Tech. Let's see how all of this plays out when they get to real teams.

Who are their real teams? They go at TCU and at Oklahoma. Other than that they play BigWest or worse the rest of the way.

 

[bhawk24bob]

We have wide receivers. Hum that’s nice to know.

"Possession" receivers

 

[win1forthe]

Iowa is ranked 131st out of 133 in total offense.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

There’s Nico Rag-eye-eenie and at least one more, I think. I know I’ve seen Nico out there.

I just thought he was out there so we were able to have 7 people on the line.

 

[tweeterhawk]

Iowa is ranked 131st out of 133 in total offense.

Body of work, though.

 

[tweeterhawk]

There’s Nico Rag-eye-eenie and at least one more, I think. I know I’ve seen Nico out there.

He left the team and now has a string of taco shops in Tucson.

Nico's Mexican Food

Mexican Restaurant in Tucson

nicos-mexican-food.business.site

 

[iahawkeyes17]

We’re gonna see WRs transfer at the end of the season (again)

Lucky for us brown and Anderson already transferred once. Need to be grad transfer to not sit out a year minus a waiver. So we won’t be trotting our walk ons like last year week 1.

But with rules in todays college football it’s insane to not have a 100 yds especially as a P5 school. That being said we only had 166 vs SDSU last year.

 

[Fan In Black]

I don't care if they are top 5 CFB defense of all time. That offensive output is embarrassing. It's almost unbelievable. But it happened.

 

[nu2u]

From the article:

• Iowa had the same number of turnovers as first downs (four)
• Penn State scored just two more points than Iowa had offensive plays (31 to 33)
• Penn State had more rushing attempts (57) than Iowa had passing yards (56)
• Iowa’s total rushing yards (20) were nearly matched on one rush by Penn State running back Nicholas Singleton (19 yard long)
• Iowa had six total fumbles (four lost)
• Penn State QB Drew Allar nearly had as many passing attempts (37) as Iowa QB Cade McNamara had passing yards
• Iowa posted a total of 20 rushing yards on 17 attempts (0.8 yards per attempt)

There is no way to reasonably explain this level of abject ineptness. It’s utterly bizarre. A “bad game” does not even begin to describe what happened.

It’s baffling. Maybe the Iowa Attorney General should open a new gambling investigation on the football program, coaches included. What the hell else could it be? Good god.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

I bet Iowa finished in the top 110th-ish at end of year.

 

[like-woahh]

Someone updated Brian's Wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ferentz

"Brian Ferentz (born March 28, 1983) is an American football coach, nepo-baby, and former player. He is the offensive coordinator at the University of Iowa. He is the son of longtime Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, under whom he works."

 

[Thunderlips71]

Iowa is ranked 131st out of 133 in total offense.

 

[RocknRollface]

Take a trip to any fan board and they're all laughing. PSU has a decent defense but not that good. I really feel for you guys as your fan base doesn't deserve this insane nepotism.

Yeah, we kind of do.

 

[luvmyhawks]

From the article:

• Iowa had the same number of turnovers as first downs (four)
• Penn State scored just two more points than Iowa had offensive plays (31 to 33)
• Penn State had more rushing attempts (57) than Iowa had passing yards (56)
• Iowa’s total rushing yards (20) were nearly matched on one rush by Penn State running back Nicholas Singleton (19 yard long)
• Iowa had six total fumbles (four lost)
• Penn State QB Drew Allar nearly had as many passing attempts (37) as Iowa QB Cade McNamara had passing yards
• Iowa posted a total of 20 rushing yards on 17 attempts (0.8 yards per attempt)

There is no way to reasonably explain this level of abject ineptness. It’s utterly bizarre. A “bad game” does not even begin to describe what happened.

It’s baffling. Maybe the Iowa Attorney General should open a new gambling investigation on the football program, coaches included. What the hell else could it be? Good god.

How in the actual **** is ANY of this acceptable? Let alone all of this. Its ****ing insane.

 

[83Hawk]

How in the actual **** is ANY of this acceptable? Let alone all of this. Its ****ing insane.

There are a few guys on this board that are PERFECTLY fine with it.

 

[kwik44]

Brian being so arrogant about it as well is the most maddening thing to me. He is so confident he has all the answers.

 

[MitchLL]

Brian being so arrogant about it as well is the most maddening thing to me. He is so confident he has all the answers.

Fvck Brian, that arrogant prick!

 

[obfuscating]

129/130 In total offense..

No freaking way to justify keeping an OC of a P5 team past today.

 

[jberesford]

129/130 In total offense..

No freaking way to justify keeping an OC of a P5 team past today.

I noticed that besides Iowa, it's an entirely different grouping of teams at the bottom this year. The other ones got their shit together and fired their worthless coaches and moved forward. Iowa doubles down on dipshit.

 

[DropitlikeitsHawk]

From the article:

• Iowa had the same number of turnovers as first downs (four)
• Penn State scored just two more points than Iowa had offensive plays (31 to 33)
• Penn State had more rushing attempts (57) than Iowa had passing yards (56)
• Iowa’s total rushing yards (20) were nearly matched on one rush by Penn State running back Nicholas Singleton (19 yard long)
• Iowa had six total fumbles (four lost)
• Penn State QB Drew Allar nearly had as many passing attempts (37) as Iowa QB Cade McNamara had passing yards
• Iowa posted a total of 20 rushing yards on 17 attempts (0.8 yards per attempt)

There is no way to reasonably explain this level of abject ineptness. It’s utterly bizarre. A “bad game” does not even begin to describe what happened.

It’s baffling. Maybe the Iowa Attorney General should open a new gambling investigation on the football program, coaches included. What the hell else could it be? Good god.

I was thinking the same thing about gambling but even guys shaving points can’t be that bad.

 

[hawk224]

Sometimes, there’s a really bad game and things just don’t go your way. This isn’t that. Iowa’s offense is utterly inept every week and has been for several years running. I’m as happy as anyone that Iowa won a good amount of games last year. But if you’re going to talk about “body of work,” you have to realize that BF’s only body of work is the offense, which is dogshit. I have nothing against him personally, and I don’t hate him like some seem to do, but he’s just not getting the job done. Changes have to be made.

 

[Franisdaman]

We’re gonna see WRs transfer at the end of the season (again)

Kaleb Brown will take his NIL $$$ from SWARM and scram, I am afraid

 

[Franisdaman]

This is what a portion of our fan base doesn’t understand; it’s difficult to be this bad on offense. Going up against great defenses doesn’t have to be a death sentence. It isn’t for even the cupcake teams on the schedules of PSU, Georgia, Bama, OSU, Michigan, etc.


I’m going to quibble a bit with this. PSU has a top 5 defense, easily.

If this game were a one off, it would be one thing but this is the 3rd season in a row that Iowa has had a horrific OL and horrific offense overall.

Heads need to roll.

 

[obfuscating]

I noticed that besides Iowa, it's an entirely different grouping of teams at the bottom this year. The other ones got their shit together and fired their worthless coaches and moved forward. Iowa doubles down on dipshit.

Yep to jump up 1 place, we have to get 200yds of offense and the other currently in 128th to get zero...