This as nervous as I've felt for a Michigan game in a while. I expected Harbaugh and company to lose to Michigan State and Ohio State and only in the 4th quarter did I begin to feel the nerves against Ohio State. I expect Michigan to win this game now and so the negative energy is creeping back up. I don't see a matchup on paper where Iowa bests Michigan. Offensively, they don't seem to be very productive unless they are working with a shortened field. They have a terrible offense and rank 106th in rushing, 110th in passing, and 123rd in total offense. I don't see a way they outscore Michigan without forcing us to turn the ball over a ridiculous amount of times. Defensively, they are good team but not better than Michigan and I don't think they have the talent on the Dline to control or bully Michigan's Oline considering what we just watched Michigan do last week to Ohio State's Dline.
My gut tells me Michigan pounds the rock down their throat, dominates the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and just controls the game from start to finish. Iowa doesn't have the offensive talent to go up tempo and turn this game into a track meet. I think it's going to be something like Michigan 35 Iowa 17.