Iowa's Preview

Now hopefully next year will be a different story and they beat Michigan State. But as always the Iowa Hawkeyes are very unpredictable. 
              Kirk Ferentz, coming into his 17^th season at Iowa. A lot of people thought it would be the end of his career at Iowa if something didn’t change. But after looking at the regular season as a whole, things turned around for the better. Partially for the new quarterback and I also think it was Ferentz. This year he was willing to take risks. Such as going for the 1^st down, or doing a fake punt on fourth down. The little things are what made Iowa 12-0.

               C.J. Beathard and a couple of other players really made the difference this year. Coming into this year Beathard only threw a total of 109 passes, for only being a junior it’s not a bad number. But with the number of touchdown passes thrown this year alone of 15, we are looking at a pro style quarterback. (Pro Style is a quarterback who doesn’t throw a lot, but can hand the ball off just nicely.) The completion percentage of the junior is fairly nice of 61.4%, and a touchdown to interception ratio of 15:4. I can’t complain about these stats here.

                Now looking at the top three running backs at Iowa are Jordan Canzeri, LaShun Daniels Jr., and Akrum Wadley.  Now those 3 guys alone make up of just about three quarters of the entire rushing yards for Iowa Football (2048 yards). With Canzeri being the senior it would make the most sense for him to have the most rushing yards and he does. What doesn’t make sense to me is the fact that his longest run is only 75 yards. For a back like he is and the amount of speed he has, I would have thought he would have a run longer. Maybe even multiple carries of 75 yards.

               Matt Vandeberg and Marshall Koehn are two guys you probably have heard about. Matt Vandeberg is leading receiver for the Hawks with 639 yards. And Beathard’s favorite receiver, because “He can turn a play from nothing into something very quickly.” With an average of 10.8 yards per catch, I think he would a great addition to any pro team, but for now he should stay with the Hawks.

               Marshall Koehn has only really been in the news for his kick against Pittsburgh. Now this was just your average field goal to win the game. No. this was a 57 yard field goal to win the game. That’s something you just don’t hear people do in college football. 

"Iowa Football." ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures, 26 Aug. 2015. Web. 02 Dec. 2015.