Daniel Olinger: Iowa 17, Northwestern 10
The rest of the West has finally figured out that if you have a competent offensive identity, you can eventually score on the brick wall that is Iowa’s defense while the Hawkeye offense bails you out with their own ineptitude. Purdue attacked the soft cornerback coverage with repeated intermediate throws to their talented wideouts. Wisconsin did beefy O-Line Wisconsin stuff. But Northwestern... Northwestern does not have an offensive identity outside of “spam Evan Hull runs against teams that suck” (meant as a critique of the unit, not Hull himself, who is very good).