WITH SPECIAL GUEST DENARD ROBINSON. FOR THE WHOLE THING! Big thanks to Bryan Fuller for setting that up. Please listen to Part 1 first if you haven't already.

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Previously: 1879, 1901, 1918, 1925, 1932, 1940, 1947, 1950, 1964, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1985 p.1& p.2, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2011 p.1

Special Guests: Craig Roh, author of The Pass Rush Bible and Denard Robinson

[Writeup and player after THE JUMP]

A man in my position cannot afford to be made to look ridikuhlis.

Ace: Brian and I did a segment on this week's podcast in which we each listed our top five most ridiculous games of the Hoke era. Not only were our bottom three picks entirely different, but between Twitter and the comments at least a dozen games that didn't make the cut were suggested as meriting inclusion, and... it was really hard to argue with a lot of them.

So let's try this again. List and explain your top five, perhaps mention a few dishonorable mentions, and feel free to explain your methodology—I'm intentionally leaving "ridiculous" open to interpretation.

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BiSB: I just drew up a quick list of candidates. There are 16 games on that list. I HATE ALL THE THINGS.

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Ace: Now remember that the very first game Hoke coached featured two Brandon Herron touchdowns and was called due to a biblical storm before the third quarter ended...

Even the wins, man. Even the wins.

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[After the jump: we discuss 60% of the games under Hoke]

Previously: Western Michigan, Notre Dame, Eastern Michigan, San Diego State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Michigan State, Purdue

Iowa

Schedule:

• Tennessee Tech, 34-7 (W)
• @ Iowa State, 41-44 OT (L)
• Pittsburgh, 31-27 (W)
• Louisiana-Monroe, 45-17 (W)
• @ Penn State, 3-13 (L)
• Northwestern, 41-31 (W)
• Indiana, 45-24 (W)
• @ Minnesota, 21-22 (L)
• No. 15 Michigan, 24-16 (W)
• No. 17 Michigan State, 21-37 (L)
• @ Purdue, 31-21 (W)
• @ No. 21 Nebraska, 7-20 (L)
• No. 14 Oklahoma, 14-31 (L) Insight Bowl

Record: 7-6 overall, 4-4 B1G, 4^th place Bo Division

Stats:

	Offense	Defense
Rush:	137.7 ypg, 79th	156.0 ypg, 62nd
Pass:	234.8 ypg, 59th	222.9 ypg, 58th
Total:	372.5 ypg, 76th	378.9 ypg, 60th
Scoring:	27.5 ppg, 58th	23.8 ppg, 47th
T/O Margin:	+1, 52nd

Recap: If one word could describe Iowa’s 2011 campaign, that word would be “flat.” So flat that if you were to survey the terrain while driving through the state you’d be all like, “Huh, this reminds me strongly of their season,” and you’d also see the one landfill-turned-ski slope off the freeway, and it would be named “Michigan.”

Sorry. I’m a metaphors kind of guy.

This is a metaphor.

(more metaphors after the jump)