First of all I would like to apologize for taking this long to start writing about the Hawkeyes this season. Due to having to many commitments and having a new baby in the house has taken up a good portion of my time. Now lets talk about those Hawkeyes.
Welcome to another year of me blogging about the Iowa Hawkeyes Football team. After having a disapointed year last year by not making to a bowl game, the Hawkeyes are a little bit older at several key areas. The QB and WR are more mature and we lost of two best RBs to graduation as well as key members on the defense side.
Iowa Football team is currently 2-2 in the Big Ten Conference and 5-3 overall. Here is a breakdown of the season so far. I’ll go into more detail in the next volume of Iowa Hawkeyes Football 2008 Season on my blog.
Iowa has suffered losses to all ranked teams. Iowa lost a non-conference game to Pittsburgh 20-21 and lost to Northwestern 17-22 and Michigan State 13-16 in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa lost by a total of 9 points in the 3 losses this season.
Iowa has won 5 games this season including to conference games. The Hawkeyes have beaten Maine 46-3 and Florida International 42-0 at the beginning of the season and also beat Iowa State in the State Rival Cy-Hawk game 17-5 at Kinnick this year. Iowa Has also beaten Indiana 45-9 and Wisconsin 38-16 in the last 2 games they played.
The two biggest suprises on the Iowa Hawkeyes offense this season is Sophmore Ricky Stanzi beating out Junior Jake Christensen at starting QB and how good Shonn Greene has been at RB. Also another suprise is how Jewel Hampton has risen as the backup RB behind Greene and how good Brandon Myers is at TE.
The two biggest suprises on the Iowa Hawkeyes Defense this season is how LB’s Mitch King and Kroul is anchoring the Hawkeye Defense and how stingy the Defense has been against their opponents. Also another suprise is how good the CB’s have been doing and how much LB Pat Angerer has been improving and making himself be noticed.