The Iowa Hawkeyes endured a four hour weather delay on Saturday night to emerge from the non-conference slate with a 2-1 record thanks to a 27-0 win over the Nevada Wolfpack. While the raw numbers aren’t incredibly remarkable in the context of what Incarnate Word was able to do against Nevada the week prior, what we saw from the Iowa offense was undoubtedly better than anything we had seen this season to-date before Saturday.
It wasn’t enough to prop the Hawkeyes out of the last spot nationally in total offense, but it did move Iowa from worst to almost worst (124th out of 131 teams) in scoring offense.