Iowa Hawkeyes get wish! Will play late night game in desert, not on New Year's, and against team that looks like Purdue!

fuck go hawks

Penny’s Noodle Shop. Usually pretty good. I think we’re gonna cook up a big ol’ mess of broccoli too, and I’m also drinking a New Belgium 2 Below Ale. It’s pretty good.

My first bowl game in several years! I don’t care who we play.

Mizzou fans thinking they got more screwed that Nebraska because Texas A&M jumped them despite the head to head win (of course, Nebraska has the same argument with Mizzou, but let’s not let facts get in the way). None of these idiots are talking about the team that got truly screwed in this: Iowa! We should be playing on January 10 in Glendale. BS. Tigers suck.

should be hung such that the new tp hangs in front of the roll, not behind. If it is hung otherwise, I reverse it.

Also this bowl selection is like God mocking Iowa by sending us back to the place (roughly) where this season’s dreams of glory began to die. Also Barry Alvarez smugly talking about the Rose Bowl makes me sick.

Mizzou alums write crap like this. I don’t care if you hate Nebraska more than you hate Osama bin Laden, this is the worst piece of crap I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot of crap.

would have LOVED to play Florida. Nothing better than playing a spread team with a pro-style QB.

Insight. Depressing.

I’d be using it right now.

The plastic ones that came with them don’t seem like they’ll work as well as metal ones.

Also, I like Iowa’s chances against a pretty-untested Missouri team. The Big-12 is down this year, and I like our chances to look more like the team that played Michigan State than the one that played Minnesota.

in the ultimate no-win game of the bowl season…although Oklahoma has a pretty decent no-win game going as well.

Huh.

Minnesotas new coach according to the news up here. Not really the big splash they were hoping for, lots of bitchin I bet.

Oh yeah, Insight.com. Bowl. WOOHOO!! Beat Missery!

I am looking forward to this bowl game. Ought to be fun with the guys at work.

the team got what it deserved. Of course they are a better team than Michigan and Penn State, but the way they fell apart at the end, for as good as they could have been and briefly were, it’s hard to complain much. This is a deserving, uninspiring finish which will hopefully send a message to all the returning players.

We locals will hopefully put enough butts in the stands so not to tarnish too much our reputation as a good draw, but that’s really not what the bowl committee wants. Lots of people back home have already taken their trip out west three months ago. I doubt we fill up the hotels like they want. So be it—there NEEDS to be a bitterness, a sting to this.

Going to a January bowl to play Florida would have seemed like we got off easy. No, wrong time for that. Maybe swagger requires taking some more preliminary steps. In the past, this would be a bowl we might not have liked if we had the same record as a Michigan or a Penn State, but most people would have rationalized it somehow and thought how nice to go to Phoenix in December. No, not this time. We need to look at this as a bowl beneath us at ANY time, a penance to be paid for unacceptable football. They’d better win just to save face with themselves, but even then, if they do its frankly a hollow victory. This team needs to learn from this trip that the bowl in Phoenix is the one on the other side of town, a week (or two) later.

And they’d better be ready. Missouri was once again abused by its own conference come bowl selection time. Probably punishment for its open begging to the Big Ten. And probably a better spread offense than the Northwesterns of the world that drive us nuts. If there is one silver lining in this, perhaps Norm, assuming he will be able to develop the defense for this one, can put a sharper focus on dealing with the spread for this game and for the future.

except with uglier colors, a generic team name, and less historical success. but other than that, yeah, like looking in a mirror.

also, the fact that no one seems very outraged that Iowa was passed by two teams it beat says it all about this season.

the biggest difference is that Missouri never broke through, never made it to the Orange Bowl or Fiesta Bowl, where we did make it, and more than just once.

I don’t know if we should be outraged by being passed up by the Florida bowls. We might have hurt our reputation as a great draw for bowls. I think the outrage is that we allowed ourselves to be put in a position for this to happen.

A team that runs the pass first spread and puts a premium on tiny, quick receivers. We’re fucked.

if the team wanted to play in those bowls, it would have beaten Minnesota.

/I still had Fox on from before I left this afternoon and House is on.

Not the fact that we got passed up by two teams we beat, but the fact that we’re playing Mizzou. All hell has broken loose in my apartment. My boyfriend is already gloating about the hurt that the Tigers are going to put on us, my friends all mocking the Hawks. I’m crossing the River Styx here, ladies and gentleman…

You go on eBay to look for a sweater & they’re brand new, made to be “ugly”, and $30-40+ . Kinda defeats the whole irony concept in an ugly sweater party…

As for the bowl game…meh.

The whole Grandpa Simpson comment above got me thinking about one of my favorite Simpson’s quote of all time and it is relevant. “I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Mizzourah.”-Abe Simpson.

Just desserts for not striving for perfection. After all, a Big XI title doesn’t require it, so Ferentz doesn’t care if they get it or not.

I fully expect the downward trend to continue, unless some underclassmen can show some leadership (since we’re not getting any from the seniors). That and the bend but don’t win defense in the last 5 minutes.

Who knows though, maybe the Iowa will play like Minny; physical, with fire, and leaving it on the field. Gee, play like it’s a bowl game. Now that’s an idea.

Fucking lousy bowls that are in the middle of the first week of January. BBVA Compass,
Kraft Fight Hunger, and the fucking Godaddy bowl.
Get back in line where you belong. Fuckers wedging themselves in between the BCS bowls, ooohhh, look at me, I’m a January bowl.

I’m over the letdown and dissapointment of the regular season, pretty much.
Going to the insight.com bowl while still a letdown, we get a shot at a 10 win AQ team that DESPARATELY wanted to join our conference and got snubbed patheically. Also it was just a few short years ago they showed how classy they aren’t by backing out out of playing us at essentially the last minute. Also 100 year stagnent boarder war??? WTF?
Downside: if Ferentz/staff and all of these talented seniors cannot prepare and come to play to win(including the part of the game called the 4th quarter) then some concerns and critiques I had thought were off base may not have been.

lol actually I really am glad we’re playing you guys. I’ve gone to a few games up in Iowa City and had a blast, awesome fan base!! Here’s to a good game, and A LOT of alcohol consumption!

not.

Damn, from the comments, you’d think you were playing the bottom dweller in the Big East. Obviously Missouri sucks in your eyes in more than one way.

We’re excited to be where we are playing you guys, and look forward to a hard fought close game. Go Tigers.