Outback vs. Iowa

[Political Hack]

As far as business decisions go I think there are benefits to playing in bowl games as well.

If it were me, I would probably have a rule where if you don't participate in the bowl you don't get the bowl swag or get to do any of the other bowl stuff.

Absolutely agree with that. Play or you don't get the benefits.

[Liverpooldawg]

I believe you could possibly be thninking of the Lil' brother University, Iowa State, MSU will not be playing ISU which is a University of Science and Technology.
The University of Iowa, Home Of The Iowa Hawkeyes is the flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

So you are the Ole Miss of Iowa then. Speaks well for you.

[Bully13]

It's a business decision to save his body for his profession. I don't like it, but I'd never fault a young athlete for doing what's best for himself as he's preparing to enter the workforce.

He's a **** whose gonna sit back and watch his teammates get destroyed. 17 him and hail state. Simmons sweat and a few others on our team have loyalty and balls.

[RocketDawg]

The only bad part about that bowl is we are the visiting team and will be in the Sun sitting on the East side. However maybe they will wear those bad ass gray uniforms.

Sitting in the sun might be a blessing in January, even in Orlando.

By "gray uniforms", do you mean the ones we wore in the Egg Bowl? Didn't we also wear those in the loss to Kentucky? But I agree, they look sharp. Almost as good as maroon/gray.

[Ifyouonlyknew]

He's a **** whose gonna sit back and watch his teammates get destroyed. 17 him and hail state. Simmons sweat and a few others on our team have loyalty and balls.

If Simmons changed his mind tonight he wouldn't be any less loyal or have any less balls.

[RocketDawg]

Nice bowl and well deserved!

I'm definitely planning on going.

I've always wondered what a Bloomin' Onion tasted like.

They're really good, but a definite cholesterol and fat bomb - almost an instant heart attack. But they taste so good you'll eat the whole thing.

[Recreationalgynecologist]

For info, Iowa?s best offensive player, the TE, is sitting out the bowl game. Being reported that our draft eligible guys intend to play, as of today

The "other TE" is a 1st Team All-Big Ten player and just won the Ozzie Newsome Award and is also a finalist for the Mackey Award. He's a 6-5 255lb sophomore. Actually, both TE's were 1st team All Big 10 but Hockensen got the majority of the snaps this year. He's a better blocker and pretty dangerous downfield. Fant is a freakish athlete who will test well at the combine. 41" vertical leap type of guy.

[RocketDawg]

Perusing the southern miss north message boards and the fans are not at all excited. The outback bowl is their version of the gator for us. Hopefully, that carries over to their team and they all show up with a don't care attitude.

Why is that? They don't exactly have a stellar bowl record. After having looked it up, they had a recent Rose Bowl but lost it in style to Stanford, and it looks like they've lost most of their other bowl games in the 21st Century. Maybe I don't keep up with them much, but I never really think of them in the same breath as Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State.

One of the guys I play golf with is originally from Iowa. We'll have to get a little bet going on the game. And one of my roommates at MSU back in the dark ages was from Iowa, but he went into the Air Force so we've totally lost touch.

[msstate7]

The "other TE" is a 1st Team All-Big Ten player and just won the Ozzie Newsome Award and is also a finalist for the Mackey Award. He's a 6-5 255lb sophomore. Actually, both TE's were 1st team All Big 10 but Hockensen got the majority of the snaps this year. He's a better blocker and pretty dangerous downfield. Fant is a freakish athlete who will test well at the combine. 41" vertical leap type of guy.

God, I hate us facing good TEs.

[Recreationalgynecologist]

Battle of the Ag Schools!

Iowa State (ISU) is the land grant school in Iowa with the agronomy, vet med, dairy, beef, swine, ag biz admin etc. programs. Iowa has the medical school, law school and so on.

Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Illinois, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers and Maryland are the land grant Big10 schools, much like Miss State.

[Recreationalgynecologist]

Iowa hasn't lost to Michigan much lately. Pretty even with MSU but we've laid some eggs in recent bowl games. Early in Kirk's tenure Iowa beat Florida, LSU, South Carolina and should have beaten Florida a 2nd time. Iowa's been up and down as of the last few years but always seems to put a fair number of guys in the NFL. Consistent QB play and being one dimensional on offense have been Iowa's weakness over the last few years. They just haven't put it all together, but when they do, they're tough to beat. This year's team lacks senior leadership (young team) and that has hurt them in close games. The defense is pretty good, especially in the secondary and DL. We have 3 DE's that will make an NFL roster in the future and our LBs are young, we lost two from the '17 team that are on NFL rosters but they're mobile and will hit. The secondary is pretty deep and disciplined but had a couple bad outings, including the Purdue game in with a true FR corner got torched for a couple long TDs.

[FlickShagwellthe1st]

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[RougeDawg]

S&P+ has Iowa defense at #21. We've faced 4 top 25 defenses (bama, LSU, auburn, and Kentucky) and we've scored 33 points (8.3 per game). This will be a good test for our offense.

We saw how great those Big 10 defenses were when Michigan got demolished. The style of football up there gets steam rolled by our style. We out physical people and our offense last 4 games is 4-5 times better than the first 8 games.

[Recreationalgynecologist]

We're better than Michigan on defense, especially on the edges. Michigan got demolished by an OSU team that's probably the fastest in the country. They're just a schizo team and don't always show up but when they're on, they are tough to stop. OSU reminds me of Oklahoma with a better (but undisciplined) defense.

[LC Dawg]

The "other TE" is a 1st Team All-Big Ten player and just won the Ozzie Newsome Award and is also a finalist for the Mackey Award. He's a 6-5 255lb sophomore. Actually, both TE's were 1st team All Big 10 but Hockensen got the majority of the snaps this year. He's a better blocker and pretty dangerous downfield. Fant is a freakish athlete who will test well at the combine. 41" vertical leap type of guy.

I heard Fant is being held out because of a discount on tires.

[Commercecomet24]

We saw how great those Big 10 defenses were when Michigan got demolished. The style of football up there gets steam rolled by our style. We out physical people and our offense last 4 games is 4-5 times better than the first 8 games.

This. We are better on both los and our defensive speed will be tough on the ol Hawkeyes.

[dawgday166]

God, I hate us facing good TEs.

Why? This ain't the 2014 D. And that happened only because we were down 2 safeties.

Don't remember a TE wearing us out this year. If our D ain't lollygaggin and enjoying the beach & the girls, we'll be ok.

[Commercecomet24]

Why? This ain't the 2014 D. And that happened only because we were down 2 safeties.

Don't remember a TE wearing us out this year. If our D ain't lollygaggin and enjoying the beach & the girls, we'll be ok.

Correct different dc different defense. No te or wrs have done anything of note against our secondary.

[dawgday166]

We saw how great those Big 10 defenses were when Michigan got demolished. The style of football up there gets steam rolled by our style. We out physical people and our offense last 4 games is 4-5 times better than the first 8 games.

I'm still a little concerned with our offense and also hope the D don't take them lightly. Don't want a quick TD or 2 before Shoop settles them down.

[msstate7]

Why? This ain't the 2014 D. And that happened only because we were down 2 safeties.

Don't remember a TE wearing us out this year. If our D ain't lollygaggin and enjoying the beach & the girls, we'll be ok.

We've only faced 2 good TEs this season. Sternberger, we held down quite nicely... 2 catches 13 yards. Irv smith got us pretty good... 5 catches 70 yards.