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Yet Iowa did little to make Purdue think the ball is going to anybody other than they guy it actually goes to. To be fair, though, Iowa’s top 4 ball-carriers all average above 4/rush: Tyler Goodson (4.3), Ivory Kelly-Martin (4.4), Monte Pottebaum (4.5), & Tyrone Tracy (4.7). And like, I get that Iowa strives to be complementary with their offense but it’d be nice if that meant they could have 3 “average” runs and get a first down instead of another Tory Taylor punt on 4th & 1. The Hawkeyes enter the game with the lowest yards/carry (3.1) since the wretched 2004 run game (2.0) which featured Sam Brownlee as the #1 back for much of the season. The Badgers are a known old foe who has made the Hawkeye offense look silly for the better part of the 2010s, and while 2020 had many markers of the past games against Wisky, the Hawks were able to hit on a couple big plays and win by the widest margin the rivalry had seen (on Iowa’s side) since 2008.īetter times, as Iowa has averaged over 4 yards/carry just once ( 2018!) since Shonn Greene sonned Bucky and friends.

Yet when I’m feeling really testy, it all comes back to offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz.Īhead of the #9 Iowa Hawkeyes (6-1, 3-1) game against the Wisconsin Badgers (4-3, 2-2), the Hawks need Brian to pull out his annual “hey, we can live with this guy long-term!” gameplan. In the matchup with Wisconsin, Two times centered on Iowa’s offensive line vs. I said Iowa couldn’t run against air ahead of their 2018 matchup with Illinois.

It's an impressive list.The Boilermakers combined for 5 sacks and 8 tackles for loss as Iowa averaged just 2.7 yards/carry.Īlmost every year since I’ve written this column, I reach some version of a breaking point with Iowa’s offense. Here's a look at the running backs and the offensive linemen who have made that possible since 1990. This year, sophomore and SN preseason All-American Jonathan Taylor is the next man up. Another back set the single-game record for rushing yards last season, though that record was broken a week later.

Wisconsin has the all-time leaders in rushing yards and all-time leader in rushing TDs. The combination of All-American linemen and prolific running backs resulted in almost three decades of dominance for the Badgers. “For that to be the one constant then go out and find backs to do a job for us. "We established how we were going to win at Wisconsin years ago in establishing a running game knowing that we could always recruit big linemen in state,” Alvarez told Sporting News in 2015. Barry Alvarez tapped into that when he arrived in Madison in 1990. Alan Ameche - also known as "The Iron Horse" - won the program's first Heisman Trophy in 1954.