Let’s get the obvious out of the way from the get-go: Iowa’s 14-10 loss to Northwestern yesterday evening has officially killed any chance of the 2018 campaign being a season worth remembering for the Hawkeyes.
I rarely attend games in person, but I had longstanding plans to attend this one with some out of town friends. It was one of the colder games I’ve been to at Kinnick Stadium. So cold, in fact, that an elderly couple sitting in my row left the game before halftime, while the score was still 0-0, and proclaimed “We’ll get ‘em next year,” as they squeezed past me toward the exit.