The Iowa Hawkeyes walked into Happy Valley on Saturday night as 14.5-point underdogs. It was a pretty big number considering both teams were ranked and the Hawkeyes boasted a two-game winning streak against the Nittany Lions.
Then Penn State thoroughly embarrassed Kirk Ferentz and the Hawkeyes. It was a beatdown in every sense of the word for all but the very first few minutes of the game. Frankly, there isn’t much to dissect or breakdown. Iowa was abysmally bad on offense. Their defense was OK, but exhausted after facing an absurd 97 plays from the Nittany Lions.