Hawk Talk on Melrose

WE ARE FINALLY IN GAMEWEEK. 

Topics in this episode: we discuss the Northwestern vs Nebraska game, preview Iowa's first game against SDSU and give our prediction, look at some of the big games in Week 1 of College Football, and finish with our first week of Wager Winners. 

Thanks for supporting and listening to our Podcast. Go Hawks!

In this episode, we start off by discussing why we think the Oline will be better this year. We then get into the freshman class and rank 8 of the freshman players on how we see them impacting/contributing this season. After that we go over some over/under for this season both on the defense and offense. And lastly we talk about some week 0 college football - Nebraska vs NW and Wyoming vs Illinois.  As always thank you for listening to Hawk Talk onn Melrose. Go Hawks!

Kolby joins the show for the first time this season - glad to have him back on!! He used to be a co-host back in the early days of this podcast.  In this episode: Kolby, Tyler, and I go through our big observations of this year's team. We then get into what we think the big 10 standings will be by the end of the year and look at some big games that may determine who wins the division or not.  As always thanks for listening and Go Hawks!!

Collin shares his thoughts centered around Iowa Media Days that took place on Friday and the Kids Day Scrimmage that was on Friday. 

Start off this episode by sharing our thoughts on the podcast that Chad Leistikow did with Brian Ferentz a couple weeks back. We look at the big 10 position rankings and where Iowa fits in there at each position, and then also a look ahead at some of the bigger Big 10 games this season and the implications some of those games will have. We finish the episode finally going through the Big 10 East over/unders.

Episode 3: Offense Struggles & Top 10 Iowa Players for 2022. 

Welcome back, Hawk Fans! Topics in this episode: 

We start off the pod examining the offense from last year as we make our way into this year, we provide some key stats of the offense under BF, and Collin gives his four (realistic and small) changes that Iowa could do to see a little bit more success on the offensive side of the ball. We finish the episode giving our top 10 Iowa players for the 2022 season.  

As always, thank you for listening and supporting this podcast. Go Hawks!

Week 2 of Hawk Talk on Melrose! Topics include:  

- Brief talk on Big 10 Media Days 

- Depth Chart overview 

- Schedule overview 

- Team difficulty of Iowa's schedule... Tyler and I rank 12-1 of our opponents from 12 being the easiest and 1 being the hardest opponent.   

4 more weeks until College Football!! 5 more weeks until Hawkeye Football!!

Welcome back Hawks!! The first episode of season 4 - topics include:

- Why we decided to change the name to Hawk Talk on Melrose

- Recap of last year as we transition to this year

- Quick preview of each Big 10 west team and their over/under win total

- Thoughts on USC/UCLA joining the Big 10

New episode out every week! Once the season starts, we will be recording twice a week. Go Hawks!!

We are back after taking a 4-week hiatus.. not because we wanted to. Tyler and Collin share their reaction to Iowa's 20-17 loss against Kentucky in the Citrus Bowl. 

Topics in this episode:

Iowa is back in Indy baby!! 

What’s at Stake 

Petras or Padilla or both 

Michigan Preview 

Keys to the game/ Prediction 

Lincoln Riley to USC, Brian Kelly to LSU 

Who takes over at Notre Dame and Oklahoma Championship Week 

CFB Playoff