Black Heart Gold Pants · Jul 30, 2021
2021 opponent preview: Northwestern Wildcats
After a bit of a delay due to work travel and then a baby waking up with a 104 fever then coming down with hand, foot, and mouth disease for a week, the 2021 preview rolls on. Frankly, it’s for the best as the Northwestern Wildcats are deserving of the Friday news dump treatment because they will always scare me as an opponent even when they aren’t so scary!
They beat the Hawkeyes last season after yielding a 17-0 lead and then jedi-mind-tricking Brian Ferentz into calling 50 Spencer Petras’ passes en route to a suffocating 21-20 win and the low point of Iowa’s 2020 season. We’ll get to some even sadder stats later in the write-up. There are plenty of them. :(