early $$$ coming in on Iowa. Spread has already moved to 13.5.
Guessing it'll be Iowa -16 or so by kickoff.
Thoughts?
Guessing it'll be Iowa -16 or so by kickoff.
Thoughts?
Line opens Rutgers +11
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Seems about right. This isn't 12-0 Iowa from 2015. We aren't good but they're probably an 8 win team this year like they usually are. We get a few breaks and if the crowd is actually at the game...it could be a good game. I've had it as a toss up game with Iowa the likely winner.
Sagarin's has #102 Rutgers (60.86) as an almost 19-point (18.93) home underdog to #19 Iowa (82.79).
Rutgers is going to lose by at least 21 points. It's not National Championship Iowa but it sure as hell ain't New Mexico
Rutgers needs to pretend they are Iowa State. Iowa, in the Ferentz era, has had many bad losses. The Cyclones success against Iowa, for instance. Central and Western Michigan, too. And Big Ten teams Minnesota, Northwestern, and Indiana have beaten the Hawkeyes as underdogs. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Didn't you predict that RU would be a 14 dog to New Mexico?
They will cover in the 1st qt,then we fight back,hopefully. It's either a FG game, or a 20pt blow out for Iowa.
Man, I would be scared to bet on Iowa if it opens up that insanely low. It's not like anybody repects RU in any way right now, despite Iowa's loss to ND State. Would have expected minimum 2TD spread.
Iowa's style of offense is a better matchup for us then someone like Washington. They don't have the playmakers with speed like Michigan or Ohio State have.
If we can get the offense going, we can have a chance like last year's Michigan State game.
If we can get the offense going, we can have a chance like last year's Michigan State game.
Just get the hell out of the first quarter. We have consistently played better D from the second quarter on.
No. I predicted RU-45 NM-21. However I was surprised at the point spread of the NM game because we are perceived as a bad team by the outside college football fan base.
I was wrong about New Mexico +5.5 at RU, mainly because NM opted for a FG try instead of going for the TD late. Still, I was wrong. So take this with a grain of salt. Iowa -11 at RU is the lock of the century.
Actually on game day the spread went up to 7.5 so that missed FG was yuge.
This week I'm laying the points. I think Iowa wins by 3 tds.
Spreads lower than most thought it would be because of the North Dakota State loss.
If the Hawkeyes beat the Bison a16+ or more spread would be the line.
NDS is a great team, but Iowa was expected to win against even the best FCS program
and didn't.
If the Hawkeyes beat the Bison a16+ or more spread would be the line.
NDS is a great team, but Iowa was expected to win against even the best FCS program
and didn't.
If Iowa lost at home to an unranked team, then how can they win by more than 2TD away game to a team that is getting better.
Rutgers is getting better every week so I am not so sure that this game will be a blowout.
Ash now knows what he has in this team.
Rutgers is getting better every week so I am not so sure that this game will be a blowout.
Ash now knows what he has in this team.
Getting better every week? You trail 21-0 against Iowa the way we did against New Mexico, and it's over. UNM is a decent team in an awful league. We won at home. BFD.
And that "unranked team" you dismiss is a quality program that knows how to win, with six straight wins over FBS teams.
Everyone kept dismissing Iowa all last year, and they just kept on winning and winning and winning and nearly pulled off the Big Ten championship game. Dismiss them at your peril.
And I am a big Ash fan, but how can he know what he has when he doesn't even know for sure what he has in his QB? (And if he does, he's the only one.)
And that "unranked team" you dismiss is a quality program that knows how to win, with six straight wins over FBS teams.
Everyone kept dismissing Iowa all last year, and they just kept on winning and winning and winning and nearly pulled off the Big Ten championship game. Dismiss them at your peril.
And I am a big Ash fan, but how can he know what he has when he doesn't even know for sure what he has in his QB? (And if he does, he's the only one.)
Man, what a defeatist mentality in this thread. Should we just forfeit the next month so nobody gets hurt?
I will be at the game cheering for the team regardless of what one particular moron on this board thinks. However, I do predict we fet dominated at the line of scrimmage and lose convincingly, although I hope its close and we get a shot to surprise people. I expect the line to go up a bit and for Iowa to cover.
The trend would suggest another slow start, but it depends on who our starting QB is. The new staff's approach is unknown, and if Allen or Gio/Oden kicks in practice this week, they may get either the start or put in in Q2. I have no clue how things are going to go, and either do the odds makers. Common sense Iowa will kick our ass, but so many unknowns.
To the posters who say that Iowa is going to come in angry and that will be enough to run over us, it isn't. Every player is angry after the first play and the hitting starts. It wasn't enough for them against ND State, so the difference will be in our QB and game planning.
You were telling this board RU + points was a "lock" for months prior to the Washington game. If this game was at night I'd say take RU with anything up to 17. At noon, with a pissed off Iowa, unfortunately I think Iowa is the bet here as well.
We're talking about a gambling line, that's all, I'll be expecting the "W" regardless! Let's go RU!
Taking off work Friday to drive out from Columbus to the game. Hoping it can be competitive if we can get out of the 1st quarter without giving up multiple TDs...
HPSS will be the field of dreams on Saturday.The place where we dream of a QB who can throw.:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I don't agree that we are getting better.
First, the Washington game was the best team we have faced so far and they buried us. Both Howard and UNM are not nearly as good.
Second, we have had three terrible first quarters in a row to start games. This does not show any getting better!
The only "better" we have shown is once we get out of the first quarter, we play better. But, playing better than terrible is not saying much. Since our last two games were against far less talented teams, we found a way to win. We were supposed to win these games. More talented teams like Iowa will not just go away.
