[NU Sports] FORTY DAYS OF FOOTBALL: Day 34

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

I know it's not a bad loss by our perspective :) ... and I think you're right that the teams were closer than people thought talent wise.

But still, the #4 team losing at home to an unranked foe is a "bad loss." Just like it was a huge win for NU to beat a top 5 team on the road.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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--- On Sat, 8/28/10, Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] FORTY DAYS OF FOOTBALL: Day 34
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 6:15 AM
> > 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
> 
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