Each week, Inside NU’s Film Room will allow one of our writers to dive into the highlights from Northwestern’s past games or future opponents in order to give you the quality analysis you need heading into the following week. The ‘Cats desperately need to upset the 20th-ranked Hawkeyes if they want any chance to salvage the season, so this week we’ll take a look at what makes Iowa’s defense so good and what other teams have done to find success against them.
It’s indicative of the ‘Cats’ misfortunes this season that the week after they faced the number one overall defense in the SP+ rankings, they now take on the ninth-ranked defense in the nation by that metric.