Heading into last week’s trip to Bloomington, a fair number of Hawkeye fans, myself included, were nervous about the matchup with the Hoosiers. The passing game and the scoring ability seemed like an opportunity for the Hawkeyes to slip up. Those concerns were washed away very quickly.
This week, we saw similar concerns. The Maryland Terrapins weren’t known for throwing the ball, but they had the speed to stretch out Iowa’s defense horizontally and a dynamic pass rush doesn’t do much good against the run. It figured to be a high scoring affair with Iowa needing to throw the ball similar to the way they had the last two weeks to come out victorious.