This is a revenge game for Iowa who held Indiana to 2.2 ypc on the road last year. Iowa is also off a bye and will play an Indiana team that has looked as bad as they have looked good this year. They won at MIssouri, but lost at a Bowling Green team that is ranked at the bottom of the nation in offense and defense. They are not getting the consistent play from their QB Nate Sudfield who has just a 125 QB rating and relying on their star RB Tevin Coleman too much. Iowa sports a solid rushing defense that can game plan and dominate a game with 2 weeks to prepare for a one dimensional attack and I think that's exactly what they will do.

Iowa has already faced a pair of top 50 rushing teams on the road and won and coincidently neither of those teams had a passing game so it should be more of the same on Saturday. I also expect Iowa to get their running game going and to find some balance in the passing game against Indiana's defense that is very young and talented, but playing very inconsistent. At the end of the day we are backing a team off a bye, at home, vs inconsistent team with holes on both sides of the ball and the extra preparation time should benefit and allow them to win this game by a TD.


Marshall is getting a lot of hype for the second year in a row, but they have the 99th ranked strength of schedule and I don't see any reason for them to be this big of favorites when you consider MTU has been extremely competitive and beat Marshall at home last year as a double digit dog. Both of their losses on the road came by less than this margin and agaisnt two very good teams in Memphis and Minnesota. MTSU runs the ball first 58% the time and Austin Grammer leads the conference completing 71% of his throws so the clock should be moving a lot. MTU has the best offense that Marshall has faced so far this year and I expect it to be a battle for 3 quarters at least before Marshall takes the game over and wins by 10 in the 4th.

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