Iowa game time: Possible spoiler?

The more I see of Iowa this year the less I'm concerned about playing at Kinnick, regardless of the kickoff time

I think night is less likely also given they have 2 straight night games before us as well.

I'm not sure the announcers could make it through an Iowa night game without falling asleep

Leave nothing to chance.  This needs to be a swift ass-whooping Nooner.

if we go up 10-0 in the first and lay off we'll end up winning 10-9..... 

I'd rather we go up 24-0 in the 1st half,  let the 2nd string play 3rd qtr.... then, if we're up by at least as much, 3rd string can have the 4th qtr.    

Iowa is going to be coming off a loss at Rutgers so they might be pretty fired up.

But honestly, looking at the schedule, what else would they take?  Purdue at Minnesota, maybe? That might be for all the marbles in the West. 

I don't think Michigan will be Big Noon four weeks in a row though.  MSU would have to crap the bed pretty substantially for Fox not to take OSU at MSU, and Michigan at Indiana does not scream Big Game in week 6.

Please please please be noon game, I have a wedding that day. 

If Iowa State can run 21 plays in 12 minutes at Iowa, Michigan can run 1 play per half and eat up the clock. Just run the clock down , have them go 3 & out, the half is over. 

Y'all need to chill. Michigan could play at Kinnick at noon, 5pm, 9pm or 330am it doesn't matter. Michigan wins by 20. Stop believing in this black magic voodoo shit. They are a terrible terrible team 

Sometimes parents do their children a disservice by trying too hard to help them. Having said that, Brian Ferentz is making a lot of money, and if that is the only objective,  he is a success.  By any other metric I can think of he is an abject failure.  

Now maybe he would have been a failure anyway,  but without daddy's presence, he would have been more likely get criticism,  perhaps even be fired and have the opportunity to learn and grow from his mistakes. 

4 weeks in a row — wouldn’t that mean the Penn State is at noon? Would be a shame to waste our Maize Out on a noon game

Thank the Lord.  Their magic is gone and the Ferentzs have become offensive Ferrets.

It isn't far fetched to see Rutgers beating Iowa next week and the Hawkeyes being 2-2. I expect an offensive explosion in the way of a 13-3 victory over Nevada this week.

Fox and Big Noon takes the Oklahoma St vs Baylor game (rematch of the great Big 12 championship game of last year).

CBS takes Bama vs Arkansas in the 3:30 slot

ABC takes Clemson vs NC St

ESPN primetime will unfortunately be Kinnick @ night: Michigan @ Iowa.

Who cares?  Play it at night and kick them right in the curses.  There is no way in hell that offense is scoring more than 17 against Michigan (I don't think they'll even get that much).  And there's no way in hell that Iowa's defense - as good as it may be - can stay in the game long enough to keep UM from scoring 35.

This game will be a rout whenever its played.  You have to have an offense to win at modern football, and regardless of what Ferentz may think modern football happens in Iowa City, too...

We know the Big Noon game is up to Fox to decide, but are night games still high in the pecking order?  If Iowa loses again before our game, Iowa-Michigan might not be that high of a priority.

We beat the brakes off Iowa last year on a neutral field. The same Phil Parker everyone is worried about coached that defense. I don't expect another 39-point win, but I fully expect that Harbaugh remembers 2016...and 1985, and will coach in a way not to repeat those losses.

Iowa's about to be ranked 180th out of 131 FBS teams on offense this year. The only possible way they beat anyone with a pulse is by getting turnovers or blocking punts

I'm not scared of Iowa - even at night

Iowa's offense is literally stuck in neutral. Some of us Michigan fans think that our offense looked stuck with Cade at the helm so far this year, but Petras at the wheel for Iowa has been true QB malpractice. They lost Tyler Goodson and all B1G center Tyler Lindenbaum to the NFL and both Jones and Tyrone Tracy to Purdue, so both the running and passing games have regressed.

Petras has either gotten worse or simply stayed the same while the skill players around him are worse than last year. Meanwhile Brian Ferentz seemingly has no clue how to begin to compensate for any of those factors. Net result: they can hardly score even when gifted a short field.

I'm certainly not taking the game at Kinnick for granted, especially after being here in 2016 and watching those ridiculous events unfold. But I'm genuinely confident about this year's match up. I think Iowa might very well lose another game before we play them and I suspect JJ will only become a better race car driver at the wheel of our offense in the next few weeks.

I plan on paying very close attention to their game at Rutgers in two weeks.

Some offenses can’t cross the street.  Iowa’s can’t even reach the curb.  AND YET I know they’re going to play better when we come to town.  I just do.  Bad teams, more often than not, play above their ability against Michigan.

Also, doesn’t the law of averages say they can’t continue this kind of ineptitude every week?

I invite you all to laugh at me if I’m wrong.  I hope I am.  I’d rather see another 42-3 game.  

I hope it’s at noon. I have an Airbnb by the stadium for Saturday night and I’d love to cancel it to save the money. A noon game I could get home by midnight. 

This Ferentz nepotism thing is interesting.
 

My dad worked for his dad. My grandfather was hard as hell on him because he expected more from his son than any of his other employees. I am certain he would have fired my dad if he wasn’t performing.

In contrast Kirk  seems to be soft as hell on Brian. He doesn’t appear to hold him to any sort of expectations. It’s like he doesn’t care that his son is an incompetent boob.