After being the darlings of college football, consecutive losses to the Oregon Ducks and the USC Trojans have left many people feeling as though the Buffaloes aren’t for real, at least not yet. I’m comfortable taking the Hawkeyes to win at home and covering the spread of less than a field goal.Īnother team that has seen its stock plummet is Colorado. Iowa may not be able to get much done on the offensive end behind Cade McNamara, but its defense has allowed just 16.8 points per game. Purdue is just 2-3, having lost by two scores or more to both the Syracuse Orange and the Wisconsin Badgers at home in recent weeks. Iowa bounced back with a 10-point win over Michigan State, and now gets a fairly comfortable home game against the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday. But neither are they are bad as people seem to think they are since their 31-0 drubbing at the hands of Penn State a couple weeks ago.
Iowa was never as good as the polls suggested when the Hawkeyes were an early-season mainstay in the Top 25.