I have a bit of time so will give you my take on my Hawkeyes and would appreciate if someone could return the favor on the Hoosiers.
Overall: this is a very good Iowa team. We still want to run the ball and have won 18 or the last 20 when we run for over 100 yds. The defense is our strong suit this year with the D-Line being one of the best ever at Iowa and going 9 deep. We handed Wisky a win with 3 special teams turnovers, one of which gave them the ball on our 10.
Offense: This is a more balanced run/pass team than many you have seen in the past, due to two reasons. First, QB Stanley can be really good, at times. He can also be just a bit 'off' with accuracy on some of the easy throws. Second, 2nd year OC, Brian Ferentz, is implementing many 'scratch where it itches' options patterned off of Belichek and the Pats. He worked for several years post college and a shot at the NFL.
RB's: Three guys play and all are competent B1G RB's. No one has really stood out all year, but we did see a couple of really nice tosses to one of them at the Minny game. They will give a workmanlike performance and Iowa will stay with the running game even if it not working early.
OL: Pretty good. Not a great Iowa line, but more than OK. Better at pass pro than run blocking, it would seem, but some of that is due to folks stacking the box and us throwing over it.
TE's: The best ones you will see all year. Both Fant and Hockenson will play Sundays. Fant is a freak with WR speed in a 6'5" 240lb body. Hock is a great blocker and catches everything thrown his way.
WR's: Young and improving. Still not a force, but acceptable and improving each week.
Defense: Lots of injuries. 3 LB's out. 2 starting CB's out last week, but think we get one of them back for IU. Julius Brents frm Indy looked great last week, you will see him. Safeties are a strength with 3 guys who are all very good.
D-Line: Play 9 guys deep. Dends have 11 sacks of the teams 18. When Iowa gets 30 sacks in a year we are going to be pretty good. On track for close to 40, at the current rate, with 5 againsy Minny.
LB's: Not sure how they will patch this group together for you guys, but we need a guy or two to get healthy. We will get a big hitter back at MLB for the 2nd half, after a late targeting suspension near the end of the Minny game.
All ready talked about DB's.
Special Teams: Strong field goal kicker. On KO's we will drop it down at about the 5 and dare you to run it out. Minny fair caught all of them. We will take KO's out and have a deep threat in one of the young WR's. Competent on Punt returns and ditto on punts. We will always have a gimmick play up our sleeves on ST. See the Minny fake field goal.
To beat us you have have patience and dink and dunk down the field and do it several times. IMO, this game could become a shoot out, as I think Iowa could score a lot and with our damaged LB corps IU may score a lot.
That's all folks!
