Iowa football: Three reasons the Hawks can win remaining four games

Hawks have four winnable games

Heading into this season, I did not expect the Iowa football team to beat Michigan in Ann Arbor, and I thought the game against Penn State would be tough. Now, with Wisconsin looking mortal after two straight defeats and Penn State looking like a College Football Playoff team, I would argue that those two games were the toughest two games the Iowa football team has on their entire schedule.

While Iowa has two ranked teams remaining on their schedule, Illinois provided a nice blueprint for how to beat Wisconsin. It’s one, I might add, that Iowa can replicate too. And Minnesota just hasn’t done anything that impresses me to this point. They are playing with a lot of confidence, but as I mentioned above with the defense, this team can stop any offense including Minnesota’s aerial attack.

At this point, Nebraska looks like a shell of the team that was supposed to compete for the Big Ten West title this year, and they may actually finish 4-8 again.

Illinois, oddly enough, is the weird sleeper in all of this as they have been playing great football as of late (save for the weird proximity they kept with Rutgers in the first half of yesterday’s game). That being said, Illinois is a team that the Iowa football team typically handles pretty easily (just look at last year’s game).

Will it be easy? No, but Iowa doesn’t have any games remaining on their schedule where they shouldn’t either be the more talented team on the field or possess the key pieces needed to beat a more talented team (i.e. Wisconsin).