Rose Bowl

With the Rose Bowl Game coming up Iowa is going to have their hands full. Stanford is a team that Iowa hasn’t played in a while or has never played before. Iowa being a very balanced team between their running and passing game. This game will be a very offensive game. Everything being said about Christian McCaffrey, the Iowa defense will have to dig deep to stop him.

C.J. Beathard coming off the hard loss to Michigan St. I think he is even more determined to bring back that Rose Bowl Trophy to the great people of Iowa. I think the key to this game is the passing game. With Stanford being heavy on the run game, it will be very predictable if all Iowa does is run. Matt VandeBerg will have to play a huge role in this game to really stretch this game out and keep the Stanford defensive on their toes.

Christian McCaffrey is a great running back no argument there. But can he with stand the Iowa Defense? McCaffrey has 1850 total yards for the season and an average of about 6 yard per carry. Which isn’t bad for the sophomore back. I think and smaller factor of the team is Kevin Hogan the Quarterback. You don’t hear too much about Hogan. The Senior Quarterback has just over 2600 yards in the air and about 9.3 yards per play. And for a Quarterback I can’t complain about those stats. I Think to only bad part of his stats is the 28 interceptions in 4 year which is about 7 per game. But if you break that down even more its less than one interception per game.

From all the information being presented here the Hawks are going to have a tough game on their hands. Kevin Hogan is playing at his best and that’s making him unstoppable. Then you have Christian McCaffrey who was a Heisman Nomination, also with about 1850 yards rushing on the season. But, you could say that about Stanford as well, C.J. Beathard is playing quite frankly the best season of his life. Then, you have Desmond King who is in second place for interceptions with 8. They’re going to have a tough time in the air. On the ground is going to be another challenge for both teams.  After everything being said Iowa and Stanford will one great game to watch.