I'm not talking about our performance. Everyone knows that we weren't in a good position to play a game. It would have been nice to have a remotely healthy QB playing in the game, as well as our OLine...to see how we could have done. Comparison scores vs Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Minnesota indicate that we would have fared much better if TA were healthy. When you take away a player's greatest asset (running), it impacts the rest of the running game, and impacts his passing.
I'm just stating facts. We are a more prestigious program than Iowa. That's why we can still recruit better, despite having a down year last year. And we have more fans nation wide than Iowa, which is why we generally have better TV ratings.