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Originally Posted by
mhossa
Iowa played maybe their best first half of football against ISU last week in Ferentz tenure here. I think you're greatly underestimating just how dominating our offensive and defensive lines looked, Stanzi had one or two bad passes instead of having 1 or 2 horrific passes, and the offense seems to be clicking and putting up points early. We didn't even blitz once. Tarpinian made his first start at MLB and looked much more athletic than Angerer ever did. Robinson looked like a best, and our D-line had them under raps, despite mostly playing contain. Arnaud threw the ball 44 times to Stanzi's 18, and Ricky still had more yards.
I was real scared about Arizona coming into this season, but last weekend changed my mind. I think our defensive line is too dominant, and our LBs and secondary are too athletic. Hell I even remember AC running down Grigsby from behind last year. 7 of their points were on a pick 6, and our offense played pretty mediocre last year. This is an Iowa team that hasn't looked fazed while playing on the road in a while. I think Iowa will win pretty easily.
FWIW I took them big at -2. But, to each his own.