“The Iowa Hawkeyes are on a three-game winning streak!” is a sentence I would have liked to use as an opening in this space a week or two ago.
The Hawkeyes’ 3-2 start is certainly better than many of the starts we’ve seen around the Big Ten and look no further than the latest opponent Iowa took down: the Penn State Nittany Lions are 0-5 for the first time ever.
Yet the Hawks’ last three games have come by collective margin of 125-35. It’s the first time they’ve had three straight conference games of 35 points scored in any single season.