It’s amazing how much can change in two weeks. Two Mondays ago, Iowa was sitting pretty in the Big Ten West after the Hawkeyes’ 15-6 victory over Wisconsin left them in first place in the division. With Iowa holding the tiebreaker over Wisconsin and having knocked the Badgers’ starting quarterback Tanner Mordecai out for the foreseeable future with a broken hand, Iowa appeared to have a stranglehold over a West division without another team capable of mounting a real challenge, even with Iowa being extremely one-dimensional thanks to its defective offense.
Two weeks later, Iowa’s standing in the West is significantly less certain.