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Iowa Football: The sky is not falling for the Hawkeyes

To an extent, I get the negativity. The Iowa football team lost two games to ranked teams, both in equally excruciating fashion.

The Hawkeyes have, by almost every measurement, an elite defense. While Iowa football fans are used to having a strong defense, this year’s iteration may be the best of the bunch.

That makes Iowa’s offensive ineptitude that much more frustrating. Iowa hasn’t scored 30 points against a Power 5 opponent this year. This statistic is hyperbole, of course, if you count Rutgers as a Power 5 team, which would be a questionable categorization.

Even still, the last time Iowa failed to score 30 points twice in their first six against Power 5 opponents was in 2013.