The obvious difference between the 2020 Iowa Hawkeyes and the 2021 varietal is: it’s gonna happen in front of 70 thousand cheering fans. Otherwise, it would be easy to lift yesterday’s performance and place it into the 2020 highlight reel and see a lot of the same for the #18 Iowa Hawkeyes (1-0, 1-0) from their 34-6 victory over the #17 Indiana Hoosiers (0-1, 0-1).
The offense’s early score came as a bit of a surprise, mainly because it’s the play every Hawk fan groans about: zone stretch to the boundary. Only this time, it was overloaded with tight ends as Luke Lachey and Sam LaPorta sealed the edge and allowed Tyler Goodson to win a 56-yard footrace: Kinnick was jumping.