I'm really surprised at the glass half empty approach of Cyclone fans. We've been competitive with UI two of the last three years even without getting in the end zonweevEr even beat them once without scoring a TD! UI is good at Red Zone defense but it doesn't mean that we are going to continue this incredibly poor rate of scoring TDs in the red zone against them. Odds are, if we get to the red zone 4 times, we're going to score a couple TDs.
A-Rob ran for 100 yds against them last year. For as long as Ferentz has been there they've struggled some in the preseason. And on top of it all Stanzi is no Heisman candidate like Drew Tate was. There are lots of reasons to be confident.
I'd set the line at -10 and that's with me drinking the Kool-laid. I think IA is a tough matchup for us -- I doubt our D is even top 90 in the country, BUT there are reasons to be confident against them. We will score TDs. Regression to the mean can be a b!tch, Hawks!