A week ago, the Pants were feeling confident in a Hawkeye win over a depleted Purdue team that was set to be without their star WR Rondale Moore, their mastermind Jeff Brohm and potential several others. We were all pretty skeptical of going up against the Boilermakers, but the absences seemed too much to overcome.
We were wrong.
While Iowa seemed in control for a good majority of the game, they couldn’t seem to get a single defender on David Bell, let alone two, and we saw an uncharacteristically undisciplined Iowa team commit 10 penalties and fumble the ball away twice inside the opponent’s 10 yard line.