Remarkable recent even requires homage to excellent MGoBlog article
In the most-excellent and brilliantly written Opponent Watch 2022: Preview, Part 1, the author refers to last year's Big10 Championship, stating:
"Iowa… was Iowa. They Iowa’d so goddamn hard that it is impossible to imagine anything Iowaing harder."
Well, I think they did it. Although it was unimaginable, last Saturday, by winning with a final score of 7-3, composed of 2 safeties and a field goal, it seems that Iowa Iowa'd harder even than the previously established high-water mark of Iowaing.
September 5th, 2022 at 1:34 AM ^
The companion article, Part 2, was filled with many excellent literary gems as well.
A big salute to BiSB.
September 5th, 2022 at 1:37 AM ^
I read this title at least 5 times and the summary another 2-3 before I realized it should say “event” in the title instead of “even”.
EDIT: The only thing more confusing was seeing a headline after the game stating Iowa’s defense outscored the offense in a 7-3 game that included no pick-6’s or scoop & scores… until I realized there were 2 safeties involved. Certainly pinnacle Iowa.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:29 AM ^
Something more perplexing: the opening line for next week's Iowa - Iowa St game (to be played in Ames, Iowa St having soundly defeated their cupcake opponent) has Iowa winning by 3pts.
September 5th, 2022 at 2:08 PM ^
I'd hate to have set the lines for Iowa early in the season. They lay an egg in their non-conference pretty often, either playing an appallingly close game against a cupcake or outright losing to one.
Remember that 2016 Iowa team? They clobbered Iowa State 42-3, and we all remember what happened in Kinnick in November of that year.
But they also lost to North Dakota State that year.
September 5th, 2022 at 1:46 AM ^
As putrescent as Iowa looks right now, I assume they will have two touchdowns worth of complete crap lined up for us in four weeks. We should never fall for Labor Day Iowa or Michigan State.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:19 AM ^
I'm going to be on this crusade all season long - does any really think that Iowa is going to score 35 points on Michigan?
Now, Iowa has a pretty good defense - they're fundamentally sound, good with technique, and have some decent players. They run a continuous cover-2 zone with capable LBs underneath. But that is ALL. THEY. DO. Not a single player on that defense is good enough to start for Michigan's defense today. Considering what Michigan's offense did to them in December, who here believes that plain Jane vanilla 2-high crap is going to keep Michigan from scoring ~35?
Offensively ... Ohh man, do I even need to say anything about Steven Petras? Who here - show of hands - thinks Iowa is a threat to score 35? C'mon, don't be shy...
Yeah, we all know shit happens and that every team has a dud at some point each year. Kinnick Curse, and all that... I think the Kinnick Curse happens when a good team with some marginal frayed ends goes in worried about the Kinnick Curse. When they play into Iowa's hands by making the punter a primary strategy. Do not make the punter a strategic part of the game!
All Michigan has to do is what teams like Alabama and Georgia do against teams like Iowa - run their offense and not worry about what Iowa wants. Iowa cannot keep up - they don't have the players, scheme, coaching, or mindset to score 35 in a high scoring, seemingly defenseless affair. But I do think that Michigan's coaching staff has turned that corner...
September 5th, 2022 at 8:28 AM ^
I’m reasonably confident about the Iowa game but I’m not highly confident Michigan scores 35 in Kinnick. I hope they do and it’s very possible. But this is not last year’s team and every season somebody gets got in Kinnick scoring way below their average.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:34 AM ^
All true... but this same Iowa team (since every Iowa team is always the same) scored 55 on Ohio State not that long ago (2017, the same season they only scored 10 vs NW and 15 vs Purdue).
September 5th, 2022 at 7:12 PM ^
I think Jack Campbell would probably start on our defense but that’s about it. Phil Parker runs a great defense year after year.
Petras should not be starting at QB for any D1 program. He is just awful. Brian Ferentz commits malpractice as an OC. I can’t believe the AD doesn’t step in and offer Kirk an ultimatum.
Iowa looks worse than the team we beat in Indy but Kinnick and that D always gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Don’t turn the ball over. Don’t fair catch punts inside the five. And run your offense with confidence and we should be ok.
September 5th, 2022 at 10:01 AM ^
Ferenz is playing the long con. Lull you to sleep with punts, followed by an avalanche of safeties.
September 5th, 2022 at 2:27 AM ^
Penn State was Iowa'd in 2004: Iowa 6 PSU 4
after Iowa had just beaten OSU the week before 33-7. Only Iowa.
September 5th, 2022 at 2:40 AM ^
+1 for note of excellent historical precedent.
September 5th, 2022 at 9:56 AM ^
Both games featured 2 safeties and 2 FGs (not one FG, as OP indicates).
The PSU game immediately came to mind for me in the aftermath of the Iowa-SDSU game. Remember that Iowa also gave PSU the finger in that game by taking an intentional safety and making it 6-4 b/c they wanted to get their offense off the field and make it more difficult for PSU to score - ain't no way they were going to punt from there and give PSU a short field. They opted for the safety, kicked off to PSU, and PSU promptly fubar'ed it and game over.
September 5th, 2022 at 3:51 AM ^
With Ferentz's son coaching the offense, they might as well punt the ball every time they are on offense. How does that guy have a job is still beyond me.
September 5th, 2022 at 6:22 AM ^
It's likely a combination of an un-imaginative offensive philosophy with the worst starting Iowa QB in the history of Iowa football. Petras was 11/25 for 109 yds and a pick. A hearty 1.1 QBR.
I don't know what their QB depth looks like, but it's time for Iowa to start grooming another QB.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:25 AM ^
Gonna step out on this low, sturdy limb here - you know, the one we attach a tire swing to - and say that there are no other QBs on that roster good enough to unseat the veteran starter Petras. Further, I doubt there are any in the recruiting pipeline (as they say) that would take his job as a freshman. The halcyon days of winning the B1G West are behind Iowa for another 4-5 years, as is Kirk's MO.
That once every4-5 year team Iowa always happened last year, when Petras was the QB. It was never going anywhere beyond the West crown. Perhaps that the karma Kirk has to pay for chasing Rudddock?
September 5th, 2022 at 2:46 PM ^
Iowa might make sense as a transfer destination for McNamara.
September 5th, 2022 at 7:47 AM ^
Yeah, Kirk's boy is going to lead to a lot of punts to Jim's boy.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:41 AM ^
For Kirk's boy, I see a future of "consulting" and motivational (sic) speeches.
For Jim's boy, I see a fuh-baw coach!
September 5th, 2022 at 11:20 AM ^
Nay! Brian Ferentz will go on to consult NFL teams on offensive philosophy.
I mean, we live in a world where Urban Meyer is invited to teach a "character and leadership" course after leaving two programs in scandal. . .
September 5th, 2022 at 3:39 PM ^
Hypocrisy and the culture of forgiveness only works for winners.
Great dad and mentor - Fuck you loser, where’s your championships
Scumbag with 3 national titles - teach us about values and character
September 5th, 2022 at 6:09 AM ^
I hope there were no children watching this game - especially those already in the hospital!
September 5th, 2022 at 6:11 AM ^
That . . . I . . . Egads. I couldn't stop watching, but I feel like it was morally wrong of me to do so.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:04 AM ^
Good god…I couldn’t even sit through a 14-minute “highlight” video of the game. I can’t imagine having to watch 3+ hours of that!
September 5th, 2022 at 8:43 AM ^
I... Umm... Uhh... OMG! That was a train wreck I couldn't turn away from. G2 - you should be negged for posting this criminal content!
I'll ask it again - does anyone in here really think Iowa can score 35 on Michigan? LMAO!!!
September 5th, 2022 at 8:44 AM ^
Oof.
So that 2-safety + 2 field goal game actually happened.
I figured it had to be something everyone talks about but wasn't real, like a rural version of an urban legend.
September 5th, 2022 at 12:49 PM ^
That was like watching 14 minutes of those Sarah McLachlan SPCA ads. The only bright spot was seeing the Michigan score flash on the bottom scroll.
September 5th, 2022 at 6:58 AM ^
That was not football, not sure what it was.
The Iowa coaches should be hanging their heads in shame for inflicting that mess on college football fans, especially Iowa fans.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:47 AM ^
Maybe it's history!
Y'know, like those games Craig Ross writes about, back in the 1890s or the Aughts of the 20th century, when teams would just slam into each other.
September 5th, 2022 at 9:33 AM ^
Clearly your username should change to NeverPuntUnlessYou’reIowa.
September 5th, 2022 at 7:21 AM ^
The stat that Iowa leads fbs with 6 wins in games punting 8 or more times with the 2nd place team at 2 wins since 2020 is the most glorious thing I’ve seen on the interwebs in a long time
September 5th, 2022 at 8:47 AM ^
Dude, stop... I mean, the Greatest Generation won us a world war in grand fashion. But they needed serious help in the entertainment field...
September 5th, 2022 at 1:12 PM ^
I know you're kidding, but the people winning the war weren't involved in this production but were in uniform. Mel Brooks, Neil Simon come to mind and their shit is solid.
A couple other entertainers who went through some SHIT in the war include Charles Durning (landed at Omaha, 3 Purple Hearts and had to kill a German who had stabbed him by bashing his head in with a rock) and Eddie Albert (disobeyed orders at Tarawa to make several trips to rescue 40+ wounded Marines bobbing in 4 feet of water while he and his boat were under HEAVY machine gun fire).
My dad was in it (ETO, 3rd Army) and I developed an over-the-top interest in the subject, so sorry for the tangent.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:49 AM ^
Brilliant contribution.
Old song of the states:
What did Ioweigh, boys? She weighed a Washing Ton.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:53 AM ^
Kirk Ferentz: "I am sure my son will make a superb OC."
*wins 7-3 on an FG and 2 safeties*
Kirk Ferentz: "Do you see what I mean? He confused them by turtling from go."
September 5th, 2022 at 9:27 AM ^
Win that game.
September 5th, 2022 at 9:33 AM ^
I'll say this for Iowa...I'd rather be them than LSU today
September 5th, 2022 at 10:16 AM ^
One thing is for sure. Teams that are having issues tend to find a way to bring their A game when playing Michigan. If Iowa limps into the Michigan game, you can bet they will be up to showing they have one left in the chamber. Michigan will need to bring their A game to Iowa and, hopefully, put a similar beat down on Iowa as it did during the B1G championship game.
And here's to hoping Michigan is the sleeper team of 2022 that shocks the world and avenges it's loss to George and bashes them on their way to winning the NC.
September 5th, 2022 at 8:30 PM ^
I made a list a few years ago documenting the number of bad to meh teams who played out of their minds against Michigan and then played like utter dog sh*t the very next week against crap teams. The list got to be so long that I forced myself to stop…because it was angering me so much.
In 2016, Iowa lost to a BAD Minnesota team the week before our game with them.
If Iowa loses 42-0 the week before playing us, it will do nothing to ease my nerves about playing at Kinnick.
September 5th, 2022 at 11:11 AM ^
Dude, I can't even.
September 5th, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
Win with cruelty (to your own offense)!!
September 5th, 2022 at 4:38 PM ^
You think they were going to show Iowa St their in state RIVAL ANYTHING???
September 5th, 2022 at 6:48 PM ^
They most certainly didn't.
September 5th, 2022 at 6:00 PM ^
First of all what does this title even mean? Second, stop kissing ass.
September 5th, 2022 at 6:57 PM ^
I mistyped "even" instead of "event", and this message board has no edit feature for initial posts.
The first poster pointed that out in a well-intentioned and heroic (but unfortunately ultimately unsuccessful) effort to save you from confusion.
By the way, all the knowledgeable people here know that the original post was not about kissing ass but about overtaking ass.
September 5th, 2022 at 6:18 PM ^
Iowa's OC is so bad he should be considered for a DC position.
Go Blue!!!!