Week 5 Game Thread: No. 4 Michigan at Iowa

Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesKinnick Stadium: “Where top-five teams go to die.” Or do they? We’ve all heard it, only one top-five team in the last six attempts has escaped one of the most underrated edifices in the sport — and on the final play of the game, no less.

The Michigan Wolverines seek to break Iowa’s impressive streak against top-rated teams at home. On paper, Michigan is the far better team at nearly every position on the field, but a slew of factors are against the Wolverines. Iowa had this game circled on the calendar since last December’s Big Ten Championship. This also happens to be Michigan’s first road game of the season, as well as J.J. McCarthy’s…