[NU Sports] FORTY DAYS OF FOOTBALL: Day 34

[Tom Maycock]

> 07) 2009 Iowa Hawkeyes
> 
> - Record:  11-2
> - Quality Wins: vs. Arizona, @ #4 Penn State, @ Wisconsin, vs. #9  GaTech
> - Bad Losses: vs. Northwestern


I'm sure Iowa may view the loss to NU as a "bad" loss, but and perhaps relative 
to their only other loss it was, but I don't think it's fair to categorize it 
that way. NU was flat-out a good football team last year. If they had been even 
marginally healthy on D to start the season, we might have had a 10 win team. 
And we beat Iowa with our #1 QB effectively immobilized. 

Iowa was certainly the better team overall last year, but not by a lot. The 
margin between the two teams simply wasn't that great. So no way that should 
count as a bad loss in the "no way we should have lost to that team" sense.

My 2 cents,
Tom