For UW's offense, when I drill down there's a modest home performance bump / road performance penalty, but the opponent skew has the opposite effect as with the defense - exacerbating the apparent differential wildly.

... When I apply data controls, I find UW's defense does play better at home / worse on the road, but they're up against on-balance weaker offenses at home and stronger offenses away, so it adds up to coming out all the same ...

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3/3 ... grumbling about the weather and the officials and 'where did that last-minute drive from Iowa come from?' That's the game Iowa *expects* to play and OC Stein indulged them by refraining from explosives, which is what DC Parker actually fears.

2/3 Iowa as many as UO, so the weather and limited receiving options are just excuses for equally poor strategy from both OCs.

A hundred teams have left Kinnick with a loss after driving the field, congratulating themselves on rush conversions then fouling up in the redzone ...

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