Three weeks ago, Hawkeye fans were waking up on game day feeling some mixture of dread and apathy. Iowa was fresh off a 31-0 shellacking at the hands of Penn State and things were looking dire. That evening, the outlook would turn even more bleak as starting QB Cade McNamara went down with a torn ACL and the abysmal Iowa offense looked doomed.
Fast forward to today and the offense still looks abysmal but the team’s outlook has been flipped on its head. Brian Ferentz seems to be determined to outdo himself week after week, perhaps culminating in Iowa’s 37 passing yards over the course of the entire game last week.