If you asked a casual Iowa football fan, what was the biggest issue for the Hawkeyes Saturday, they would probably point to the Hawkeye’s secondary. And I get it, it’s an easy target. The secondary has been depleted by injuries, and the Iowa State Cyclones did a good job of exposing them twice during Saturday’s contest.
But that was it, just twice.
Now, to be fair, I even wrote an article noting a few of my postgame observations, one of which being that the secondary struggled. I might have used the word struggle a bit too loosely because after rewatching the game in the quiet of my own home and with the intent to specifically observe things such as the defensive line pressure or the secondary, it was a slightly different story.