A Quick First Glance Tennessee vs. Iowa

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Iowa (7-5)
Top 25 Teams Played
#16 Wisconsin: Lost by 2
Biggest Win According to ESPN
Pittsburgh (6-6)
QB Comparisons
Their QB's passer rating is 135.2 the closest rating to that this season we have played was Oklahoma's Trevor Knight 134.3
Dobbs rating is 130

Points Against
Tennessee is 41st in PA
Iowa is 40th in PA (against much lesser talent)

Strength of Schedule ESPN
Iowa (85) updated to suit FBSchedules
Tennessee (3) updated to suit FBSchedules

Passing Defense
Iowa 7th
Tennessee 27th

Passing Offense
Iowa 53rd
Tennessee 66th

Rushing Defense
Iowa 56th
Tennessee 63rd

Rushing Offense
Iowa 73rd
Tennessee 104th

Sacks
Iowa 60th (26) it is important to note that they have as many or more sacks than Florida and Georgia though both played Worley and not Dobbs. It is also worth noting that they have less sacks then Kentucky and South Carolina.

Tennessee 20th (35)

Iowa Senior Captains
Quinton Alston LB #52 Averages 7 tackles a game 3 sacks on the year. No INTs
Brandon Scherff OL #68 arguably their best player
Louis Trinca-Pasat DL #90 6.5 sacks on the year

Iowa is 4-1 against SEC teams in bowl games under their current coach
 
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Iowa's turnover margin is also awful. They are -5 on the year and have only intercepted 6 passes all season.
 
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Maybe I can get Freak to pin this as a new topic again?

This year's Iowa team really disappointed. What was supposed to be a team with a lot of returning talent playing one of the easier schedules they will ever have drastically underachieved to the point both the AD and Ferentz were forced to acknowledge the fact.

Many point the finger at OC Greg Davis, who is in his third year after being fired from Texas, but the defense that has typically been a mainstay year after year really didn't do a consistently great job either.

There were games where we saw offense that many hoped would be there most if not all of the time vs. Indiana and Northwestern. Then there was the vaunted horizontal offense that Iowa just isn't built to run that lost Davis his job as Longhorn OC.

Early in the season, there was no running game and teams just stacked the LOS and dared the QB, Rudock, to throw the ball downfield. That didn't happen and without a prime-time RB we saw our converted FB Mark Weisman (who is awesome, but not a D-1 primary ballcarrier) run into slanting DLs over and over with a painful lack of success.

The defense seemed to be it's normal solid self until Minnesota ran through them like a knife through hot butter to the tune of 51 points. The game was a no-contest ass whipping. That doesn't happen much at Iowa. Nobody plays more close games than Iowa (with good or bad competition).

In defense of the defense, they were breaking in three new LBs who were replacing arguably the best trio in school history (all three last year were on the Butkus watch list). They weren't quite ready for the challenge and at this point are physically underdeveloped. The MLB (Alston) is a big, slow dude who is good in run support when he hits the correct gap, but very shaky in pass D.

Also, special teams, where Iowa has excelled and won games in the past is now a point of weakness with subpar punting that doesn't work when you have a coach that puts a premium on field position and hidden yardage.

I will say, the last two games of the season vs. Wisconsin and Nebraska did show that this team can compete against good quality opponents, I'm just not sure it will translate to success next year because we will be losing a few very good senior starters on both the OL and DL.

Enough for now. Can give more details as we go along.
 
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BrewHawk said:
Maybe I can get Freak to pin this as a new topic again?

This year's Iowa team really disappointed. What was supposed to be a team with a lot of returning talent playing one of the easier schedules they will ever have drastically underachieved to the point both the AD and Ferentz were forced to acknowledge the fact.

Many point the finger at OC Greg Davis, who is in his third year after being fired from Texas, but the defense that has typically been a mainstay year after year really didn't do a consistently great job either.

There were games where we saw offense that many hoped would be there most if not all of the time vs. Indiana and Northwestern. Then there was the vaunted horizontal offense that Iowa just isn't built to run that lost Davis his job as Longhorn OC.

Early in the season, there was no running game and teams just stacked the LOS and dared the QB, Rudock, to throw the ball downfield. That didn't happen and without a prime-time RB we saw our converted FB Mark Weisman (who is awesome, but not a D-1 primary ballcarrier) run into slanting DLs over and over with a painful lack of success.

The defense seemed to be it's normal solid self until Minnesota ran through them like a knife through hot butter to the tune of 51 points. The game was a no-contest ass whipping. That doesn't happen much at Iowa. Nobody plays more close games than Iowa (with good or bad competition).

In defense of the defense, they were breaking in three new LBs who were replacing arguably the best trio in school history (all three last year were on the Butkus watch list). They weren't quite ready for the challenge and at this point are physically underdeveloped. The MLB (Alston) is a big, slow dude who is good in run support when he hits the correct gap, but very shaky in pass D.

Also, special teams, where Iowa has excelled and won games in the past is now a point of weakness with subpar punting that doesn't work when you have a coach that puts a premium on field position and hidden yardage.

I will say, the last two games of the season vs. Wisconsin and Nebraska did show that this team can compete against good quality opponents, I'm just not sure it will translate to success next year because we will be losing a few very good senior starters on both the OL and DL.

Enough for now. Can give more details as we go along.
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A lot of that sounds very familiar
 
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BrewHawk said:
Maybe I can get Freak to pin this as a new topic again?

This year's Iowa team really disappointed. What was supposed to be a team with a lot of returning talent playing one of the easier schedules they will ever have drastically underachieved to the point both the AD and Ferentz were forced to acknowledge the fact.

Many point the finger at OC Greg Davis, who is in his third year after being fired from Texas, but the defense that has typically been a mainstay year after year really didn't do a consistently great job either.

There were games where we saw offense that many hoped would be there most if not all of the time vs. Indiana and Northwestern. Then there was the vaunted horizontal offense that Iowa just isn't built to run that lost Davis his job as Longhorn OC.

Early in the season, there was no running game and teams just stacked the LOS and dared the QB, Rudock, to throw the ball downfield. That didn't happen and without a prime-time RB we saw our converted FB Mark Weisman (who is awesome, but not a D-1 primary ballcarrier) run into slanting DLs over and over with a painful lack of success.

The defense seemed to be it's normal solid self until Minnesota ran through them like a knife through hot butter to the tune of 51 points. The game was a no-contest ass whipping. That doesn't happen much at Iowa. Nobody plays more close games than Iowa (with good or bad competition).

In defense of the defense, they were breaking in three new LBs who were replacing arguably the best trio in school history (all three last year were on the Butkus watch list). They weren't quite ready for the challenge and at this point are physically underdeveloped. The MLB (Alston) is a big, slow dude who is good in run support when he hits the correct gap, but very shaky in pass D.

Also, special teams, where Iowa has excelled and won games in the past is now a point of weakness with subpar punting that doesn't work when you have a coach that puts a premium on field position and hidden yardage.

I will say, the last two games of the season vs. Wisconsin and Nebraska did show that this team can compete against good quality opponents, I'm just not sure it will translate to success next year because we will be losing a few very good senior starters on both the OL and DL.

Enough for now. Can give more details as we go along.
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