All Iowa Football Team---Post Bowl Edition
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This has been rehashed a million times. Big 10 defense numbers this year are inarguably skewed considering they had 2 of the worst Power 5 offenses of all time.
I am also talking defense and not quite sure where you're getting your data from because from what I'm looking at..
Iowa State played 6 defenses in the top 50 in YPP. 4 of those defenses were in the Big 12 (#19 Baylor - 4.85 ypp, #35 TCU - 5.25 ypp, #46 OU - 5.63 ypp, and #50 KSU - 6.13 ypp).
Iowa played 6 defenses in the top 50 in YPP. 5 of those defenses were in the Big 10 (#5 Michigan - 4.44 ypp, #17 Penn State - 4.82 ypp, #18 Wisconsin - 4.84 ypp, #27 Northwestern - 5.06 ypp, and #28 Minnesota - 5.11 ypp).
You think that was Brock's worst game of the season? Not throwing 3 consecutive picks (one being a pick 6) at the end of the OSU game (defensive rank of 82) for a loss?
To each their own.
Bruce, Williams, warner, Majors are all better that I can think of. Stapleton May be, but don’t know as much about him. I’m not listing Campbell because I’m only considering past coaches. Right there is why I say 5-6 and not even racking my brain.
Yep, regardless of stats, that was the worst performance by either Stanley or Purdy all year by a very wide margin.
Not sure where you are looking at. Here is what they are.
OU is #64 at 5.63
KSU is #99 at 6.13
That was Brock's worst moment of the year, but not his worst game as a whole. Just like I didn't put Stanley's 3 INT game against Michigan as his worst game either.
The rest of the list wasn't loading correctly so I was only seeing the top 50 instead of the top 150. That makes sense. I still wouldn't use ypp as a metric but it's fine if that's what you're going to use. Can't agree on everything.
What is one of the "Top QBs in the country"? Espn has him at 34. I don’t think that’s one of the top. In fact, it’s hard to find an objective stat that puts him in the top ten.
Granted he had a better year than Stanley and I’d be pleased to have him be the Iowa QB in 2020. He does have to clean up the fumbling however, and I have a very clear memory of ridiculing Stanley for 2-3 fumbles early in his career.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/qbr
And then he bounced back and put up 282 yards, 5 passing TD's, and 0 INT's going along with 55 rushing yards and another rushing TD @ #9 Oklahoma.
Overall statistically, he was top-25 in multiple categories this year.
19th in completion percentage
6th in completion percentage per game
23rd in pass efficiency
24th in passing TD's
5th in passing yards
5th in passing yards per game
12th in points responsible for
17th in points responsible for per game
5th in total offense
Didn't he throw a pick on the 2 pt conversion to lose that game?
And OU's pass D this year was pretty bad.
I agree, Purdy's my guy if I'm playing a bad team and want to rack up big shiny stats. He just had tendency of folding at key moments in big games when his team needed him to step up... Iowa, OSU, OU, KSU. When Iowa needed Stanley to make a big play, he was clutch. There isn't really a stat for that, except for W/L I guess. Just the truth. Sounds like this is going to be a major area of focus for Purdy moving ahead, so that's good.
What clutch plays did Stanley make this year? This isn’t a condescending question. I only watched a couple of game Iowa won.
The fourth quarter 3rd and 19 against ISU where he threw a laser to ISM for the conversion was a big one. That throw was sick.