Iowa Football: 3 reasons to be frustrated with loss in Ann Arbor

The Iowa football team did not play like the team Hawk fans hoped they would be. While all is not lost, there are a few things they need to fix quickly.

I want to strongly emphasize that the Iowa football team’s season is not over, nor are any of the ambitions Iowa football has for 2019. With that in mind, the margin of error has just gone from slim to none.

In Zach’s weekly betting guide to Iowa’s matchup, I boldly predicted that Iowa would win in a rout. That did not age well, fans.

As an obvious result of this blunder of mine, the need to analyze aspects of this past week’s performance exists, perhaps more heavily than the average Hawkeye loss. Where did my preconceived notions go wrong and what should Hawkeye fans expect from Iowa football in the next 7 or 8 games?

Andrew addressed a few observations about the game. I will be going into a little more depth in the context of what fans had seen in the first four games relative to Saturday.

Remember that Iowa plays Penn State at home and Wisconsin on the road, so the loss in Ann Arbor has the potential to repeat itself against opponents built off a defense with similar or superior talent to Michigan.