Let’s start with the obvious: the 2020 Iowa Hawkeyes football season is an absolute “what if” season during Kirk Ferentz’s tenure. There is no sense harping on all the various iterations of them - because there are plenty - but Kirk Ferentz has, once again, put together an unquestionable success of a [regular] season despite the early season losses.
Yet the campaign is only a great “what if” because of how Iowa reacted when faced with adversity.
First, after losing two games, it could have been very easy for any number of Hawkeyes to shirk the protocols thrust upon them to catch and mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks which could have sunk the operation.