The Walk Through -- Insight Bowl

Here we go.

I don't know if a lot of you watch "The League," but in the penultimate show of the season, the fellas were sitting around watching bowls on TV and thinking how empty college football is without fantasy football.

The bowl they were watching was the Insight and the score they flashed was 33-10 or something in favor of the Sooners.

I think Iowa won in "The Program," but lost in "The Waterboy." Do I have that right?

Anyway, it's Iowa against Hollywood tonight.

-- Running back . . . Wish I knew.

I get the sense that Jordan Canzeri will get carries, but will he get them out of the I? Will Iowa even run the I? I'm not sure it will. I still think Iowa's best shot to move the ball is QB James Vandenberg going to WR Marvin McNutt, WR Keenan Davis and WR Kevonte Martin-Manley.

One interesting piece of news out of running back this week was Kirk Ferentz saying freshman Damon Bullock is a running back and that he thinks RB is his best shot at the field. Bullock started the season as a WR, went to RB out of need and then back to receiver. Now, again because of need, he's a running back. There's something Iowa likes about him, putting him in the lineup from day 1 this season.

In the little we've seen, I thought Canzeri showed burst and instinct, running to open space.

I'm not sure we see De'Andre Johnson. He practiced late in the week, but was held out of contact when Iowa arrived.

FB Brad Rogers will be the one back when Iowa goes four wideouts, which could be a lot.

-- If Landry Jones picks apart the Iowa defense, running back won't matter or spread or no-huddle won't matter.

Iowa found some rhythm with the blitz in last season's Insight Bowl. Now that he's had some time to try to get his ankle right, maybe LB James Morris comes off the edge.

But really, Iowa isn't a great blitz team. It doesn't practice it, so the percentage that it works is low.

DC Norm Parker called himself a recovering "blitzaholic" during his farewell news conference in Iowa City. Maybe Ferentz takes the chains off and the defense goes nuts.

-- Special teams, Iowa has to have a consistent mistake-free game. It's had those, but then again it hasn't.

We'll see.

-- The following players are out tonight: TE Brad Herman (foot sprain), TE Ray Hamilton (knee), LB Quinton Alston (knee) and S Collin Sleeper, who wasn't at practice after last Thursday. Iowa AD Gary Barta confirmed Wednesday that a player was sent home for disciplinary reasons but wouldn't say who.

-- Eighty minutes until kick.

-- Walk-on freshman kicker Marshall Koehn made the trip. He might make kicker interesting next season. Check this link for Mike Meyer speaking on his struggles late this season. He knows he's in for a fight.

Right now, Koehn and Meyer are bashing it from 40 yards.

-- I think Canzeri is starting.

-- Iowa is dangerously thin at TE tonight.

It's CJ Fiedorowicz and Zach Derby. Behind them, it's redshirting freshmen Jake Duzey and Henry Krieger-Coble.

-- In the team portion, Canzeri was the starter. He didn't alternate.

That's it.

Kick has been pushed to 9:11 p.m. because of the game that's now on ESPN.

Thanks for following the Walk Through. See you next year.