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I almost didn’t do this - I took Niels’ advice this past weekend and unplugged a bit. It hasn’t been a fun week in the world. It hasn’t been a fun month. But then this happened:

9/30/2023 – Michigan 45, Nebraska 7 – 5-0, 2-0 Big Ten This column is about being grateful but first a digression into obscure lexicography, as the readership demands. Despite an Atlantic article that accidentally implies that the noun "fantods" was a neologism sprouted from David Foster Wallace's mother, Merriam Webster asserts that Charles Fredrick Briggs deployed in 1839; indeed, it actually found its way in to Huckleberry Finn: "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, b...

9/30/2023 – Michigan 45, Nebraska 7 – 5-0, 2-0 Big Ten This column is about being grateful but first a digression into obscure lexicography, as the readership demands. Despite an Atlantic article that accidentally implies that the noun "fantods" was a neologism sprouted from David Foster Wallace's mother, Merriam Webster asserts that Charles Fredrick Briggs deployed in 1839; indeed, it actually found its way in to Huckleberry Finn: "They was all nice pictures, I reckon, b...

Last week, we got a question: Has a power conference program ever seen such a drastic difference in offense and defense as Iowa? I already had this data set ready to go (yes, I’m a nerd), so let’s answer the question from a full-season Points Per Drive perspective, shall we?

(Mods, if you think this should be a diary, please feel free to move it) For those of you who have seen my diary series Iowatch!, we’re tracking how Iowa’s offense performs under Old Frenemy Cade McNamara. I had to cut the following piece from my Week 3 Iowatch! Diary, but I really want to acknowledge how difficult the road ahead is going to be for Iowa. So we’ll start this forum post where the diary intro had to leave off:

Intro: Welcome to Iowatch! Iowa is a fascinating team. The B1G Conference has seen historic offensive ineptitude and historic defensive greatness…but rarely on the same team at the same time. Yet Iowa has, recently, manifested both extremes.

A smackdown of the hated Steelers sends Cincinnati into a crucial part of the schedule, starting Sunday in Nashville.

Some Husky fans have been asserting that the problem with the current defense is the lack of talent left over the previous staff. Some are picking-and-choosing players that they think are...