Quick note: This is going to be a short diary. This game started late, ended late, and Sunday featured the non-standard small child birthday party and various other weekend responsibilities. This tweet from Space Coyote largely sums up my feelings: lol if you think there is actually one thing being learned during this game other than zip zap zoom wiz bang boom
Greetings! I have missed you all. Last year was fun. Let’s do that again. For those of you who are new here, we like to spend a few minutes every week looking Michigan’s slate of opponents. As always, fair warning: This column it is for entertainment purposes only, and even that is a stretch. It does not constitute legal, medical, accounting, tax, or gambling advice. It also does not contain sufficient accuracy for the FDA to allow us to label it as “analysis”; we can only refer to it as “processed information byproduct.” On the bright side, it may be stored at room temperature, as that which is not good can never really go ‘bad.’ If you want real analysis, go purchase HTTV 2022 right now. It has a full, detailed, insightful breakdown of each of these teams. Except Rutgers. I wrote Rutgers. This column will contain typos, grammatical abominations, and glaring factual errors. When in doubt, they were intentional. This year’s schedule is bad. Very bad. Especially the fi
Previously: Iowa Defense
On Wednesday we covered the watchable part of Iowa football, the defense. Now we have to discuss the offense, which has been horrendous this season. The Hawkeyes are gaining under 300 yards of total offense per game this season, ranking 123rd out of 130 FBS schools in that metric. Their scoring is significantly better, but it's spiked by defensive/special teams points. Take those out and it's ugly. 110th in passing offense, 106th in rushing offense, 103rd in 3rd down conversion rate. SP+ ranks them 92nd in offensive efficiency, only marginally better than previous foes Indiana and Northwestern. It's very ugly. What's gone wrong, and do the Hawkeyes stand a chance against the Michigan defense? Let's see:
The Film: We're still using Iowa vs. Wisconsin for this. The two defenses Iowa has seen that are in Michigan's tier are Wisconsin and Penn State, and I felt that the Wisconsin game was a better match schematically, i
Previously: Iowa Defense
On Wednesday we covered the watchable part of Iowa football, the defense. Now we have to discuss the offense, which has been horrendous this season. The Hawkeyes are gaining under 300 yards of total offense per game this season, ranking 123rd out of 130 FBS schools in that metric. Their scoring is significantly better, but it's spiked by defensive/special teams points. Take those out and it's ugly. 110th in passing offense, 106th in rushing offense, 103rd in 3rd down conversion rate. SP+ ranks them 92nd in offensive efficiency, only marginally better than previous foes Indiana and Northwestern. It's very ugly. What's gone wrong, and do the Hawkeyes stand a chance against the Michigan defense? Let's see:
The Film: We're still using Iowa vs. Wisconsin for this. The two defenses Iowa has seen that are in Michigan's tier are Wisconsin and Penn State, and I felt that the Wisconsin game was a better match schematically, i