I wanted to give myself a day or so to absorb being the champions of the Big Ten, #2 in the rankings, and being in the College Football Playoff Semifinals, so that's why this feature was not as prompt as it usually is - I need to let all that sink in and begin to feel real, because at 12:30 AM on Sunday morning, it still didn't.

By this morning, it began to dawn on me finally. This was a thing this season, and it was happening to us. Where it goes from here, of course, is anyone's guess, but to even be part of the discussion when I was fairly positive that we would not be back in August elicits some nice feelings indeed. Although my work and personal life have tried to throw a few curves since 42-27, I haven't had my overall amiable mood ruined thus far. 

All that said, there was a game, and we can discuss the thread a bit. I did not add these results to the overall graph as such - you will see them on there for the "Season In Review" diary, which will appear probably in the opening days of January now if I get a sufficiently long moment. The reason for the delay is, quite naturally, that we still have season left. 

Overall, it was a quiet game thread as game threads have gone in the Harbaugh era, or rather, it was a quiet game as meaningful, impactful games go. We gave 149 fucks, which means that if Iowa were a regular season game, it would have been all of seventh in terms of the most fucks given. Far short of the 476 we gave during the MSU game, and even less than Rutgers. Indeed, only the totals for Northwestern, Indiana and Maryland would sit below Iowa. This was largely helped by the fact that at no point was this game really in serious doubt, even early on. 

Other notes:

- A similar story exists for the 63 shits given - it would be seventh among conference opponents this season, with the same three games - Northwestern, Indiana and Maryland - being below it. We gave 124 during the MSU game, which was the season high. 

- We only called for someone to be fired 19 times, which is our lowest total among conference opponents and second lowest for the entire season. We hit a high of 94 times during the Penn State game, which...you know.....yeah, it was a struggle. As for this game, nearly all of this form of venom was reserved for Fox Sports. 

- "Suck" was a little more interesting as we used that one 29 times, most of them being directed at the officials and the network. I will note that we used to throw this one out there a lot, and it saw a spike in the 2017-18 timeframe actually, just as there was a dip in overall thread participation. I have all this data and have been putting it together slowly. 

- Cade McNamara was mentioned 213 times, and this was far and away the most prolific mention among the words that have been tracked this season. In fact, it is the most we've talked about him all season in an open thread, even counting the Wisconsin to Michigan State stretch, where almost 43% of all Cade mentions are. 

In total, there were 827 instances of tracked words across 2,456 posts, which was the total at the conclusion of the game (when I cut the analysis off - I do check timestamps at the end too). That makes for an overall efficiency of 2.97, which actually the lowest for the season so far - the only game that comes close is Maryland at 2.84. I guess that means we were relaxed, in part because we probably weren't THAT worried about Iowa. I wasn't anyway. 

We will do a bowl edition of this, of course. There will definitely be a "History Of Fuck In The Harbaugh Era To Date" as well, probably around Christmas. That one has the data already compiled. I just need to write it. 

Oh, and let's have a nice December, eh? I shall probably be creating threads for the awful bowl games so we can have a laugh throughout the month too.