Mavric

Ladies were slacking off today. First game failing to score 90. Shepard only goes for 20/10.

LJS

My biggest takeaway (no pun intended): Iowa won all five games. They never lost the turnover battle. We only won the turnover battle in the one game we won.

Thought it might be interesting to look at how we've fared against common opponents: Wisconsin Nebraska - Lost 23-21; 325 yards gained, 469 yards allowed; Lost turnover battle 1-0 Iowa - Won 10-6; 221 yards gained, 320 yards allowed; Won turnover battle 4-2 Illinois Nebraska - Lost 14-13; 292 yards gained, 382 yards allowed; Lost turnover battle 2-0 Iowa - Won 29-20; 478 yards gained, 363 yards allowed; Won turnover battle 2-0 Northwestern Nebraska - Lost 30-28; 373 yards gained, 333 yards allowed; Lost turnover battle 1-0 Iowa - Won 40-10; 492 yards gained, 198 yards allowed; Won turnover battle 3-1 Minnesota Nebraska - Won 48-25; 464 yards gained, 366 yards allowed; Won turnover battle 3-0 Iowa - Won 40-35; 506 yards gained, 434 yards allowed; No turnovers Purdue Nebraska - Lost 55-45; 484 yards gained, 457 yards allowed; Lost turnover battle 5-0 Iowa - Won 40-20; 387 yards gained, 405 yards allowed; One turnover each

Have a great one!

Notable Remaining Games: 1 Clemson 10-0: ACC CCG 2 Alabama 9-1: SEC CCG 3 Ohio State 10-0: #9 Michigan State; #12 Michigan; B1G CCG 4 Notre Dame 9-1: #11 Stanford 5 Iowa 10-0: BIG CCG 6 Oklahoma State 10-0: #10 Baylor; #7 Oklahoma 7 Oklahoma 9-1: #18 TCU; #6 Oklahoma State 8 Florida 9-1: #14 Florida State; SEC CCG 9 Michigan State 9-1; #3 Ohio State; B1G CCG 10 Baylor 8-1; #6 Oklahoma State; #18 TCU So, with only three weeks left (counting CCGs), it's entirely plausable that the only Top 8 teams that doesn't control it's own destiny are Oklahoma and ..... Notre Dame. If Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Iowa or Oklahoma State win out, they'll be in the playoff. I have to think that if Florida wins out with a win over Alabama in the SEC CCG, the committee wouldn't leave out a one-loss SEC champ. Notre Dame could get jumped by the Big XII Champ but it would be interesting so see what the committee would do with 11-1 Notre Dame against 11-1 Big XII Conference Champ Oklahoma. If we lose a couple of the undefeated teams, it could get really interesting to see what comes out of the jumble of one-loss teams.

No, we did not run similar running plays in other game. At least not in the same proportions. I have pointed out after the Miami game (and others) how often we were simply running up the middle. I pointed out during the Minnesota game that we were having much more success running to the outside. I'm not just pointing this out after the fact. I've said the same things all year. Early in the year we were about 65% passing through the first three quarters of games. Lately we have been much more committed to running the ball. Over the last five games, we threw the ball 48 times in both games we lost. We threw the ball 26, 33 and 21 times in the three games we've won. We did pass well in those games as well. But part of that is also due to the better mix of plays - strong running game setting up play-action passes. It wasn't necessarily that the running game wasn't working in the other games. Ozigbo had 7 carries for 70 yards against Illinois. We ran for almost 200 yards against Wisconsin at 5.3 ypa. Newby (5.6 ypa) and Cross (4.9 ypa) were having plenty of success against Purdue. Your statement that the running game works best when everything else is working is true but is an attempt to detract from the success the running game has had even when the passing game isn't working. My criticism of Langsdorf is nothing like what I thought of Beck. Our offense has been success because of Langsdorf and because we have a lot of talent on the offensive side of the ball. But it has been severely lacking from what it could be in several games.

Riley visited with him at school today. State championship game was supposed to be today but got moved to Monday due to weather concerns. Has played QB, RB, TE, WR, DE, LB, S and punted this year. Iowa has been talking to him but have not offered as of now.

Hughes visited today. Seems to be down to us and Arizona State at this point.

Hughes visited today.

https://twitter.com/_TerrellLucas/status/667833917018275841

Alabama is his leader by a lot. Listed Nebraska, Tennessee, Arizona State, Washington State and Washington as others near the top of his list. Looking for offers from Clemson, Florida State and West Viriginia.

All these stats are crazy but the 20+ point games is all but unbelievable.

I don't think that's obvious at all. I'd say we've had near equal amounts of non-productive spells with an emphasis on running or passing, and explosive spells with an emphasis on both as well. Remember Tommy's second half against Miami? I agree that it's pretty obvious. The key part of the statement was "real effort". Several games we ran the ball a decent number of times but there was precious little creativity put into which plays were called. The games that we've put more effort not only into calling running plays but mixing up what type of running plays were called - Minnesota, Michigan State and Rutgers - the results have been noticeable. Jay Foreman said basically the same thing earlier this week.

It's entirely possible - even likely - that people will like the offense more when we have a QB that fits that skill set. Doesn't make it a logical fallacy.

Yep. Clouse thought he was the silent commit. He even had heard that he had signed financial aid papers but didn't know that for sure. Not sure how good his info was but Clemson may have really turned him in the last week.

Didn't realize until I read it in today's OWH that Delaware St. is winless and was missing their leading scorer and leading shot blocker. Ouch. It might really have been interesting....