The Morning After: What Do We Have?

What do we have with this team, exactly? Does anyone know?

This is an Iowa team that, rightly, can hammer teams on the ground. They are indisputably better in that arena than what we’ve seen at Iowa in four years. We’ve seen Iowa struggle on the ground against teams at Troy’s level in the past. Not this year. Iowa has a good line when it comes to the ground game. They have a great stable of backs, highlighted by Kaleb Johnson (man crush levels are HIGH with that guy).

They can get after the quarterback in pass situations. They’re good up the middle. They can stop the run.

Iowa has what looks like a kicker that has returned to form. They have a punter with a big leg. He’s not Tory Taylor (yet),…