belongs on the list of worst upsets. I’ve got a good feeling about this game.

But, because I am an Iowa fan I would not be entirely surprised by a loss. Extremely angry and definitely sad, but not surprised.

Please beat the ever-living fuck out of these purple-clad annoyances. If there was ever a week to bring the pain, this is it.

~kthxbye

It’ll be 34-10, but Northwestern will be leading 10-0 going into the 4th.

Then the game comes into… Manzi time.

Colt McCoy has not been indicted on charges of dog fighting. It has only been alleged at this point.

This game resembles the S. Carolina game, as the players spend the week urging each other to bring the A game in Q1 and it is their preparation and focus that carries the afternoon. It is as though jNWU is playing in beach sand, and Iowa’s crisp execution of their seven play songbook, the brutal violence that is Clayborn, Klug, and Angerer renders the Kinnick crowd delirious. Every team has one of these games each year where a year’s worth or preparation and the mystery that is a 20 year-old’s psyche suddenly align, and they look like an NFL club.

Griese, who again has the churlish, mouth-full-of-marbles early game fuzziness that caused Spielman to ask the producer up in Madison, “What’s in that guy’s thermos?”, dispenses with the ethnic stereotypes and vague condescension for things Iowa long enough to note, “Wow, that was a pretty good pass” because, hey, he was in the NFL, before pouring more chilled “grapefruit juice” from his metal thermos.

31-0 after three. 31-10 final. Greatness nears (really, one doesn’t achieve greatness versus jNWU, one merely foreshadows it, in future games of heroic challenge) as Iowa executes flawlessly while physically dominating the stoic, spirited Cats. The coaches exchange respectful glances across the field midway into the fourth quarter and both pull their starters, conserving their strength and health for contests yet played. “This was a different Iowa team today,” Griese squeezes out of his vodka-punished brain, the darkening fade of alcohol withdrawal urging him back to the hotel, for aspirin and a little more of that Stoli medicine. For twenty minutes Spielman’s been watching reflexively attempt to pour more juice from the empty thermos. Spielman snaps his fingers and an intern ushers a wide-eyed StoopsMyAss into the booth, hands trembling as he nervously sips his thin black stadium coffee.

“I don’t know, Bob”, says Spielman. “I seem to recall that they’re 10-0 and have the toughest road schedule in the top 25. Seems to me they’ve been playing pretty good all year. What’s your take on all this, Stoops?”

Hawks bring the pain today. Poor Bitchpatrick.

Fuck you, we’re IOWA.

38-13 IOWA

Stanzi gets 3 TDs on this pansy ass defensive backfield.
DJK gets with the program on a long return.
Wegher does the endzone flip again.
And lastly, jNU walks away with McNutt all over their face.

GO HAWKS!!

on any game this season than this weekend. Just going through HFMR’s post from last year and the ensuing debate was enough to get the fire of hatred up for jNWU again. I’d forgotten how much I hated those pretentious douchebags.

Beat the ever-lovin’ shit out of these motherfuckers.

The game starts in 2.5 hours from now. I live in Washington state so that means it is 6:30 AM. I have been awake for more than an hour. I can’t sleep i am so freaking excited for this game. I hope that this is the breakout game for our offense and the game we all have been waiting for the entire season. The game were Iowa dominates the entire game.

God, why does time seem to slow to a crawl when it is early Saturday morning?

Go Hawks, Beat jNW!!!!

The Mesa Boogie Triple Stanzifier(for any guitarists out there) absolutely go apeshit and throw for 400 yards.

My Buckeyes want you guys coming in 10-0 and in the top 5 so we can move way way up in the BCS if we beat you!

It’s going to be ugly for PSU in Unhappy Valley today too…OSU & Iowa are similar and I think we’ll beat them with our awesome defense too as long as Pryor doesn’t turn the ball over 5 times.

Good luck today vs. NW!

the unanimous opinion in bettor/pundit land is that Iowa wins. This is new. They don’t know how, they don’t know when, but they are not going to bet against the Hawks. I think Stanzi scared them last week. Clearly he is a Visitor of some sort.