Iowa vs. Minnesota: By The Numbers

After leaving Madison with The Bull, your Iowa Hawkeyes are 6-1 on the year, solidly in control of the B1G West Division, and favored (at least for the time being) to win all 5 of the remaining games on their schedule. I have to admit, this is not where I expected this team to be going into the Floyd of Rosedale game, but I’m also fairly sure I didn’t expect Minnesota to be sitting at 3-3 and in a 3-way tie for 3rd in the West (that’s a lot of 3’s). We all expected the West to be down in its final year, but I don’t think anyone thought it would be circling the CFB drain.

Yes, I fully expected last week’s game to be the de facto B1G West championship game, I just didn’t expect Iowa to win it,…