Watching Iowa vs Wisconsin.
Drew Ott has really come around as an impact DE for Iowa. I think he used to be a TE, a FB, a LB. He has become a play-maker, game-changer at DE. I'm not saying he's all-world, but he is a very good college football player and he gives that Iowa defense an edge presence.
Iowa doesn't do as much of the read-and-react two-gap stuff that they used to do for years. They were very good at it, but they were not known for having an edge-presence DE (Clayborn kind of did both DT and DE. He made his presence felt on third down when they would turn him loose with one-gap responsibility). They have one now. Ott is good.
Iowa has come through a couple of wars this year: their win against Pitt was a hard-hitting scrap. Beating Wisconsin at Wisconsin is solid. Beating Iowa State is always an in-state test, regardless of how bad ISU is.
Beathard is good at QB for Iowa. Canzeri has come around as a RB. They still run their zone plays. Regardless of who the o-coordinator is, they run their zone plays.
They are solid right now. 5-0.
Their remaining schedule:
Illinois
at Northwestern
Maryland
at Indiana
Minnesota
Purdue
at Nebraska.
They aren't good enough to go 12-0, but there are no heavyweights on that schedule.
Drew Ott has really come around as an impact DE for Iowa. I think he used to be a TE, a FB, a LB. He has become a play-maker, game-changer at DE. I'm not saying he's all-world, but he is a very good college football player and he gives that Iowa defense an edge presence.
Iowa doesn't do as much of the read-and-react two-gap stuff that they used to do for years. They were very good at it, but they were not known for having an edge-presence DE (Clayborn kind of did both DT and DE. He made his presence felt on third down when they would turn him loose with one-gap responsibility). They have one now. Ott is good.
Iowa has come through a couple of wars this year: their win against Pitt was a hard-hitting scrap. Beating Wisconsin at Wisconsin is solid. Beating Iowa State is always an in-state test, regardless of how bad ISU is.
Beathard is good at QB for Iowa. Canzeri has come around as a RB. They still run their zone plays. Regardless of who the o-coordinator is, they run their zone plays.
They are solid right now. 5-0.
Their remaining schedule:
Illinois
at Northwestern
Maryland
at Indiana
Minnesota
Purdue
at Nebraska.
They aren't good enough to go 12-0, but there are no heavyweights on that schedule.
