Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Will Kinnick Stadium Magic STRIKE Again? | How Iowa Can Shock the Hoosiers

Starting point is 00:00:00 Iowa can win this football game Saturday against Indiana. We'll tell you what it's going to take for the Hawkeyes to pull off the big upset and change the perception of Iowa football. You are Locked on Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day. Hey, welcome in. I'm Trent Condon. is the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast.

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Starting point is 00:01:10 week's moving the game forward, Mazda move and be moved. Today, we will take a look at the matchup against Indiana. What's it going to take for Iowa to pull off what would be in many people's minds, an absolute shocker. We'll also hear from Tom Kakert from hawkeye report.com, his report of what he sees and what he expect to see in the matchup against Indiana. Plus some basketball talk as Iowa basketball practice is underway on the men's side and some big recruiting news

Starting point is 00:01:39 potentially happening on the side of women's basketball. Plus, we will make our picks of the day presented by Fandul. But let's start today with the DNA of an upset. What's it going to take Saturday for Iowa to get this win against Indiana? And, you know, it's been crazy. After yesterday's episode, we did our

Starting point is 00:01:58 crossover edition with Jacob Goans and reading the comments, reading the bravado from Indiana fans, which you can understand. You can understand after a performance like they had a week ago why they have a sense that they're unbeatable, but they're not unbeatable. There is a reason, but they're unbeatable. This would be a whole lot more than a seven and a half point spread in this game. We're still talking about a team going on the road for the first time. We're still talking about a team that hasn't proven very much against stiff competition. Look, coming into the year, I was not a believer in Illinois. And if you were in every day or you listen throughout the summer months and when we talked

Starting point is 00:02:36 about the Big Ten, you understood my concerns for that team that when so many close games a year ago had the ball bounce their way a whole bunch and didn't look to do a whole lot to augment that roster coming into the season. They blew the doors off them. It was a dominating performance. They're averaging 58 yards a game. Indiana has a lot to be excited about and a lot to anticipate. This is going to be a team right back, maybe in the conversation for the college football

Starting point is 00:03:02 playoff, but they're not unbeatable. It's football. It's a touchdown point spread. We've seen upsets like this before and the DNA for a Hawkeye upset. Now, when we look at some of the past upsets that I was pulled off, and you go back to the 1413 win against Michigan, you go back in some of these performances and the way that they were able to ugly it up, I don't think that you can do

Starting point is 00:03:24 and have the same path to victory like you did in some of those past upsets. I also want to put this up here because there's been so much talk, Iowa's long losing streak now against ranked teams. You know how many games of those during this 10 game losing streak have been in Kinnick Stadium? One, one of those games.

Starting point is 00:03:43 And as he go back through this drought, if you will, for Iowa playing ranked teams, you look, A, haven't played anybody that they're even close. close to in terms of matchup-wise. Most of these games were blowouts on paper, and they turned out to be blowouts in real life. But the games that you go back upon and you look at

Starting point is 00:04:03 and close call this year against Iowa State. Close call last year in the bowl game against Missouri. Outside of that, though, there haven't been many. The only time that there has been really a close call is the bowl games against Missouri and Kentucky back in 2021 and the home game against Michigan. You can see in that football game. that Michigan was a whole lot better than Iowa.

Starting point is 00:04:25 And Iowa hung around. And they got it within a couple of scores. There were opportunities also in that game. And I think there are improvements that you have and improvements that Iowa can make in this matchup against Indiana. So I think we need to put that in there because Kinnick is a special place. Kinnick is a place where Iowa can go and has proven many times in the past that they can absolutely win in this spot.

Starting point is 00:04:47 If you're somebody that is in two situational spreads, when it pertains to the point spread. There are a lot of metrics at point Iowa's way. I think this is a betting public game that the betting public is going to be all over Indiana and yet many professional betters are going to be on Iowa this week. It is the situational spot that you look for.

Starting point is 00:05:06 Indiana, after that monstrous win. And when Iowa does this, I go back to the last major upset. When fourth ranked Penn State came to town back in 2021, Iowa undefeated, Penn State undefeated. It was a top five show. showdown in Iowa, when it is at 2320?

Starting point is 00:05:25 Spencer Petrus made a big throw. And his throw to Nico Raggini proved to be the difference in that game. But they had a couple other big plays in that game. Keegan Johnson had a big play in the passing game, a 42-yarder. You're going to need that. Tyler Goodson was able to keep the feet turning, able to keep the momentum going, and get those hard-earned yards throughout the course of the game. When we look back at that game, that's what it was, making enough plays hanging around.

Starting point is 00:05:49 Now, is there any doubt that Sean Clifford's injury also helped out? Absolutely. But injuries happen in football. And at times, I need a little bit of help. This is not to say they should go out and try to injure players. I would never say anything like that. But injuries happen. And if something happens to Indiana, how are they going to go in the face of adversity?

Starting point is 00:06:12 Because they haven't dealt with it before. Certainly not this year's team. There's not been any kind of adversity. They gave up an early score against Old Dominion. Okay. They dominated against Illinois. And after 07, 7, 7, the onslaught was on. There are paths to victory for Iowa.

Starting point is 00:06:30 I think it starts, though, up front. Iowa has to control the line of scrimmage. And that top-ranked offensive line for pro football focus, he needs to show up in a big-time way. And regardless of Zoub back there running the football, Jazzyam Patterson's going to be out this week. Xavier Williams is going to be out this week. We'll see Moulton as he continues.

Starting point is 00:06:47 He was his rehab and coming back after we saw him for the first time a week ago against Rutgers. Whoever's back there, maybe it's Nathan McNeil, the freshman. Regardless, those guys have to get yards. And on top of it, there's got to be some chunk plays. You're going to need that not 80-yard touchdown, but a 30-40-yarder, probably a couple of those big plays, 20-plus yard runs. Those are the kind of things that Iowa needs. Long-sustained drives. Keep the defense off the field.

Starting point is 00:07:14 Be able to maintain, keep Indiana on the sidelines. frustrate them a little bit and you've got to force some turnovers and we talked about the drought and it ended with Jackson Rex Roth with the I&T that he had last week against Rutgers. That needs to continue. You're going to need him to have a big time performance. This defense needs to force a place. I would say you're looking at getting to the backfield, you know, three, four, five sats. I think at minimum, that's where he started.

Starting point is 00:07:39 That's difficult to do because they get the ball out so quickly. Speaking of winning up front on the other side, that defensive line again, has to dominate. They have to play at a high level, have to get Mendoza uncomfortable, because when he's comfortable, he's nearly perfect. He makes the right reads.

Starting point is 00:07:57 He's got a requisite arm. He can do all the things that you look at. There's a reason people are talking about him as a first round pick, a potential top 10 pick in the NFL draft. He has the arm talent, no doubt, but in this system, it's about making the right reads.

Starting point is 00:08:12 Make him uncomfortable get out of it. And then finally, another thing that we know, year after year after year what does iowa have to do yeah they have to dominate special teams and it goes back to it once again dominating special teams that's what iwa has to do look it's not impossible is it probable that's a different one we're talking about a touchdown point spread here i was done it in the past we'll see if they can get it on saturday and we continue locked on hawkeyes in your preview for iowa indiana we welcome in tom kakert from hawkeye report dot com we'll get tom's

Starting point is 00:08:44 perspective on what he thinks it's going to take for Iowa to pull off the win. Plus, we'll talk some basketball. Women's recruiting in a potential huge weekend in front of them with Addison Bjorn on campus, plus some other news and notes. Plus, we'll talk about the men's basketball team, but a preview of Iowa, Indiana with Tom Kekert from hawkeyeyreport.com. That's next as we continue. This episode is brought to you by Mazda's moving the game forward. For those who believe, it's not just about playing the game. It's about redefining it. There are moments that do more than put points on the board. They move crowds, move culture, and keep moving the game forward. This week's moment that move the game forward is Jackson Rexroth with that INT. We've been talking about

Starting point is 00:09:30 the long drought of interceptions and forced turnovers out of the defense at a time where Iowa needed to make a play defensively. Yes, they did it. They made a play defensively. Jackson Rethroth, move the game forward, and definitely help the Iowa get the road victory. When you follow what moves you, the unexpected is only the beginning. And just like there's move more to every highlight, there's more to a Mazda vehicle. Mazda, move and be moved. Let's get to Tom Kakert. He joins us.

Starting point is 00:10:05 It's the Hoosiers. It's the Hawkeyes. It's Peacock. Hello, Tom. Good to talk to you. How are you? Good to talk to you guys. And, you know, we just got, we got prepared for peacock by Frank Garza.

Starting point is 00:10:17 Let's peacock fly. That's, I forgot to put that. Let's get to the Hawks and the Hoosiers off the bad year. Well, you know what? Let's go back to last week, Tom. Just your thoughts on, so what did we see, a turning of a corner and embarking on the Big Ten, another step forward, obviously for Grinowski, some positives to take out of that game. What did you get back on the airplane, Tom, thinking you saw on Friday night?

Starting point is 00:10:39 I thought I saw the Grinowski that I think we all thought we would see from the get-go, and it just took a couple weeks to get there. But I thought he played really well. Defense finally got a turnover, but I'm still not, boy, it's got to be concerning when you see Aeth and Kellick managed to throw for 330, and you got Kurt Signetti in that offense that's averaging 58 yards It's a game. And again, they

Starting point is 00:11:13 should note, they did play, you know, Little Sisters of the Poor for their first three games, I think. Not exactly a, you know, a murderous row of teams, but they just thumped, Illinois.

Starting point is 00:11:30 They just, I've taken to calling Kurt Signetti coach bad intention. That's good. He will just bury you if he can. And I don't know if he'll do that to Kirk. He seems to respect Kirk. There's something with him and Bealma, though, that just ain't. He put one on him, and he probably would have put more on him if he could. A couple of alphas getting together, and you're going to

Starting point is 00:11:55 see that for time to time. So let's come up with a path to victory here, Tom. Let's figure out the way that Iowa gets this thing done. Obviously, can't give up 588 yards, can't give up 350 through the air, special environment, all those kind of things. When you're kind of looking at that path. How Iowa pulls off the victory. What are a couple of things that jump to top of mind for you? Line play is going to be huge in this game, both sides for Iowa, offense and defense. You know, Indiana's averaging, you know, I think Iowa's doing pretty well. They're averaging 200 yards a game on the ground. Indiana is averaging 300. And it's not like they've got like they've got like, they have like four. Now they're down to three. And they're all really

Starting point is 00:12:37 good. In fact, their freshman running back might be their best guy. And Iowa has to do a better job, I think. The numbers don't suggest that Iowa has been leaky against the run. I think they've been a little bit leaky against the run. They just haven't been as bolstered up there as I think they need to be. So that's going to be a key. And I think everything hinges on Iowa being able to run the football because if they can't run the football and they're getting three and out and Indiana gets the ball back and they're going to zip right down the field in three minutes and score on you. So it's just you've got to the best defense against Indiana is keeping that offense standing next to Kurt Signetti on the sidelines. So those eight minute drives where

Starting point is 00:13:25 you just drag them through the mud and just keep getting first down after first down are going to be critical. Yeah, you can hit some big plays, but I think just keeping them over on the sidelines is going to be huge. And if Iowa can do that, make a special team's play, they've got to find a way to create a couple of turnovers, and there's your path. You know, I think that there's a path there, but it is, it is really tough because this Indiana team, I think they might be better than, I think they are. Last year, I know their quarterback, their quarterback is better than Kurt's work was a nice quarterback. Nice quarterback. And those is a pro. He's a second, third round pick. I mean, he's really

Starting point is 00:14:03 good. Kobe Martin's the freshman, I'm guessing you're talking about. Yeah, he's averaged about nine yards of carry, and it's not like he's broke a couple of long wins. He's just consistently, he churns out yards. That's fascinating to see. You mentioned Mendoza, 14 touchdown passes. You yet to give up an interception.

Starting point is 00:14:19 Been sacked three times, so he's tough to get to. I couldn't agree with you more, Tom. This offensive front for Iowa has to get home in order to put some pressure on him, because well, I mean, Illinois hasn't, and Old Dominion didn't, and Kennesaw State didn't. As you mentioned, it's not exactly murder's row.

Starting point is 00:14:37 I thought Old Dominion was a women's basketball school. They used to be, right? So it's not, but what they did to Illinois just, and I guess that's why the point spread reacted, right? Because everybody sees the latest, and that's why it's continuing or at least had continued to shoot up. Cirque opened it at four. It got to eight and a half at one point. that must be it, right? Yeah, I would think it got the eight and a half.

Starting point is 00:15:05 It's funny because last Friday when we were driving over to the stadium, I pulled up one of the books that was legal in New Jersey, and I looked at it, and they had a go ahead or a look-ahead line, and it was three. Really? It was three. Yeah, for Iowa, Indiana, three. Indiana minus three. And then it kind of, you know, like you said,

Starting point is 00:15:24 Cirque opened and four. I think most places had it at six and a half Sunday morning. It was interesting because it hit eight and a half more than once. And the first time it did, there was some buyback and got it back to seven and a half. But I don't think it's buying back anymore. And I wonder if tomorrow it steams up to maybe 10. Well, here's the latest. Draft Kings is eight and a half.

Starting point is 00:15:45 There's now a couple of seven and a half. Both Fandul and South Point are at seven and a half right now. So it's kind of fluctuating. Yeah. And I think you're right. A lot of that public steam is going to be on the Hoosiers tomorrow. I agree. It will be enough, though, because there's going to be.

Starting point is 00:15:59 going to be a whole lot of pros that are just going to a simple number play and going to be on the Hawkeyes for this one. Tom, we saw late in the game against Rutgers Jaila Watson come in, who in Vegas, Kirk brought him up. And when Kirk brings up a young guy, it definitely gets your attention. We heard about him again during August camp. I don't know if it's a where he's going to unseat Deshaun Lee right now, but how much Jalen Watson do we expect to see in Kinnick Stadium tomorrow afternoon knowing what they do, throwing the ball around those RPOs, putting a young guy out there in that spot. Yeah, I think that we're going to see a good amount of him, honestly.

Starting point is 00:16:36 Teams seem to be going after Deshaun Lee quite a bit. T.J. Hall has been really good this year so far. And credit to that kid, because he's worked at it and he's playing really well. But teams are going after Lee that they did it. The Rutgers did it last weekend and got to him a little bit. And they brought Watson in those last two series, and it got pretty quiet. So I think Kirk said on Tuesday you're going to see all three of them. So I suspect we're going to see Watson probably fairly early.

Starting point is 00:17:07 And then how he does will dictate how long he's out there. But if he does well, he's going to stay out there probably the rest of the game. You know, we came to expect after watching Drew Stevens Jr. year, just almost perfection this year. And it's not that he's been brutal by any means. And here comes that key word. But there's, it maybe hasn't been as seamless as we thought it was going to be. What do you see from Stevens? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:35 And I wonder sometimes, some of those snaps have been kind of low. Some of the snaps just haven't been great. And I wonder if that's missing Luke Elkin a little bit and at that position because Luke was really good. It's always on time and right where it needed to be. But Drew also mentioned to me recently when we asked him about some of the misses and such that sometimes he will drive it a little bit too much instead of just kicking it because he might have like the kickoff mentality kind of thing. So I think he's kind of trying to adjust to that a little bit, just kind of kick the football instead of trying to drive it deep. and when he drives it deep, he tends to leave it out to the right a little bit,

Starting point is 00:18:23 which you've seen a couple times this year. Speaking of special teams, restaken, slow start. The average looks okay, but there's been a bunch of them that have been short, taken a good role, and I guess credit for him for that. But a little bit of a disappointment here in a second campaign? Yeah, it's just not been, you know, and we saw him in camp and the spring practice and everything. he was bombing him. So that's the thing that's really weird is that he's kind of taken a step back

Starting point is 00:18:55 when you didn't expect it. He was, you know, he's put on some weight, gotten stronger. He felt like the lower body was stronger. And he just hasn't been hitting him as pure as, um,

Starting point is 00:19:06 as he needs to. I'll tell you what, they're going to need him on Saturday. Yeah. Because you're going to want to pin that Indiana team back as far as you can, especially when they would be backed up. that north end zone where it gets pretty loud down there and those fans get a little rowdy. They're pretty proud of that.

Starting point is 00:19:24 So I think that's going to be a real key for Iowa. If he can get some deep ponds, pin them inside the 10, let that north end zone work their magic and see if they can, you know, maybe get a turnover or two. Speaking of work in the magic, as I go back to last Friday again, but it was really the tail of two halves, in particular to the secondary, I thought. I mean, you mentioned Calick Manus. He was really good. and in the second half, the windows got a whole lot tighter and he's willing to throw it in there. A lot of times he did.

Starting point is 00:19:53 But the secondary, Tom, I thought that they made significant adjustment, they had to have because it was a different secondary for the final 30 minutes as opposed to the first half. The two things happened. They tightened up their coverage, I think, a little bit. They were giving them some cushions in the first half. And Phil decided to bring an extra guy a lot of those times and create some pressure to make them get rid of the ball.

Starting point is 00:20:16 quicker some corner blitzes and and calic manis was really good against those and they brought a couple of corner blitzes and he just wherever that corner blitz was coming from he just threw it to that that area right out of the snap and it made a play so those didn't work but some of the other ones did some of the other blitz packages was shire and guys like that um i thought that really worked well one of the interesting things they did too in and the second half was they were to bring jaden harrel out of the game and put he and Jackson Rex Roth. You saw Rex Roth get interception,

Starting point is 00:20:49 but maybe the Rex Roth is a little bit better in coverage, former safety when he came into the University of Iowa as a walk-on. So maybe they feel a little bit better about his coverage in those situations. So that's something to watch this weekend, too, because I think you'd probably see more Rexroth out there on those certain passing situations. Tom, before we let you go, do want to ask you on basketball as practice has begun a question there,

Starting point is 00:21:15 and then we'll get to women's basketball. with a potential couple of monster recruits in town. But let's start on the men's side of things. Practice opening up. I was talking to our locked on Indiana guy. I mentioned I think the expectations are relatively high here. You're number one. When you have a potential All-American point guard,

Starting point is 00:21:31 I think you have to have your sight set pretty high with what they have in Sturts. Where are you right now with this basketball team as they get started? Yeah, I'm really curious to see what they look like. And unfortunately, we're not going to get to see them until that November 4th game because they're going to do two private exhibition or secret scrimmages or whatever. So they're only going to do those two.

Starting point is 00:21:53 And that's it. There's going to be no like, hey, we're going to go play Coe or, you know, somebody, Grace Land or whoever, not doing any of those. So it, yeah, we won't see him until November 4th when they play Bobby Moe, good old Robert Morris. So I'm really interested to see this team and to see what they look like because it's, it's got that. combination of guys that know this system and then you've got a lot of new faces it's an entirely new team other than cooper catch we barely saw it's really it's true an entirely new team it's kind of uh you know iowa has kind of been the the face of consistency where guys really don't leave that often it's not like mass exodus of players and we've kind of avoided it in terms of

Starting point is 00:22:40 roster changeover and this is a massive makeover for this program that's too bad because i was they're going to Creighton, they're going to sell tickets to that, and then Northwestern's coming to Hilton, and they're selling tickets for that. Here, I'll tell you guys this. They wanted to do one, and they were going to try and do Texas Tech. Yeah. But it was going to be the football weekend, I think it was probably to be a Penn State weekend,

Starting point is 00:23:04 and didn't have hotel rooms. There's no hotel rooms, so they couldn't do it. Yeah, because McCullum took his team out to Lumpick last year and played a really good game, apparently. against Texas. Yeah, so they were going to, yeah, so they were going to, they were going to see if Texas Tech could come in because he and Grant McCaslin are really good friends and, and they were willing to come up, but it was, and they were going to do it like earlier in the day or something and before that game and it just wouldn't work out.

Starting point is 00:23:35 Bill, sit on the details, a lot of murmurs about a potential women's basketball recruit, maybe the, and a big one also on campus this week with Bjorn coming to town from down in Kansas City. She's a top five player nationally. Top five player nationally. And the girl that visited a couple of weeks ago, how do you pronounce her last name, she might be the one that's trending towards a commitment. So it looks like Jan Jensen's got things cooking. McKenna's Alachco from San Jose, California, forward, kind of small forward. She's a five-star player. I think she's going to announce her decision early next week.

Starting point is 00:24:13 So, and I, we have a prediction, and I put one in, like, September 2nd that she was coming to Iowa, so hopefully that turns out that way. But it wasn't, like, full, full confidence, but, like, hey, I'm hearing some good things that I think Iowa's turning in the right direction here, and we'll eventually get her. And now we'll find out. But, yeah, and then Asson Bjorn from the Kansas City area, she's going to be in this weekend. And the interesting story, and I can credit to Chad Leisico from the Des Moines Register, forgetting this from from mckenna and her family that uh when she was doing a story on them that it was addison to bjorn addison bjorn's dad that kind of turned them on to iowa and said they've just got this great culture here and they you know i think you guys would fit really well

Starting point is 00:24:58 at iowa you should really kind of dig in on them a little bit so it's interesting that they are they're they're close and they've talked about iowa like that so and then you've got you know Jenica Lewis, the girl from Johnston, who's going to be visiting in October. So another big-time recruit. Good stuff, Tom Kekker. HockaiReport.com. Hockyreport.com for Tom, a part of the On3 Media Network. Tom, thank you.

Starting point is 00:25:23 We'll talk with you next Friday. Appreciate it, Tom. Thanks, guys. Take care. Good to talk to you. Tom Kakert, as we check in on eye. It's almost the weekend. Time to look back at Crown this week's MVP.

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Starting point is 00:28:00 I gamble all the time. Love sports betting. One of my favorite things to do. It is it is my past time, if you will. And looking at the slate this week, let's start in the Big Ten with some of the big games. And when you go through the matchups this week in the Big Ten, something jumps off. These home underdogs this weekend, starting in the early window with Illinois against USC. USC after the late night, they're already complaining about that.

Starting point is 00:28:24 Illinois looking so poorly when your eyes said last week, this is USC all day. My gambling mind, I love Illinois and the points. Also like the points laying them, though, this time with Minnesota against Rutgers. We'll see about Taylor and his availability, a big part of that one. Calick Manus going back to where he began his career. I just think Minnesota is a better team. Those wide receivers, as we learn, are pretty difficult. Couple more in the Big Ten.

Starting point is 00:28:48 Of course, Ohio State going to Washington. I am going to be on the Huskies here, getting the nine and a half points as they currently are on Fanduel. Give me the points in that one in Washington and the big one, the whiteout, in state college, Penn State, Oregon. Penn State's been so good in this spot. we have memories of the Hawkeyes upending Penn State and a whiteout back in 2009. No, I do not believe that's going to happen again. This is a very young Oregon team because of that. I think we're going to see a little bit of Deer headlights.

Starting point is 00:29:17 This is going to be certainly the biggest game for Dante Moore in his early career after beginning at UCLA being a backup last year at Oregon. This is going to be a difficult spot. I like Penn State in the whiteout. I'll lay the three and a half in that one. And then we wrap it up in Iowa City, 230 kickoff on Peacock. Iowa, Indiana, Hoosier's looking so good. This is my gambling mind speaking, and my gambling mind says,

Starting point is 00:29:40 anybody else in this spot, I would be all over Iowa in a big time way. I'll do it here. It's a system play, if you will, for me. You just have to do it. After a team that has that good of a performance, this was a local headline that had Iowa getting three. Now they're getting north of a touchdown. I'll grab it.

Starting point is 00:29:56 Give me Iowa and the seven and a half. Fingers crossing, let's sprinkle a little bit on that money line, see if we can come out a big time winner. on the Fandual app. That'll do it for today. Thanks for being with us as always and making lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day.

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