Hawk Talk on Melrose

In this week's episode, Tyler and Collin preview this year's schedule and which games have huge implications. The bulk of this episode we do our annual schedule difficulty, where we rank each team on the schedule 12 thru 1 -- 12 being the easiest game, and 1 being the hardest game. As always thank you for supporting this podcast! Go Hawks!

Emergency pod recording this on an off day as conference realignment has brought madness to the College Football landscape. Tyler and I are here to discuss everything that has happened these past few days.

Iowa Football has begun fall camp which means the season is getting closer and closer! We dive deep into what we are most intrigued by during fall camp as well as some players we will keep a close eye on. The rest of the episode we dive deep into the Big 10, examing each team and giving our Over/Unders for each Big 10 Team and how we see the Big 10 playing out. As always, thank you for listening a...

Season 5, Episode 3. Welcome back Hawk fans! It feels so good to start another season of this podcast. We had two teaser episodes back in May, but we are officially back for the 2023 season!! Topics in this episode include- off-season changes, Big 10 Media Days, pre-camp depth chart (relax!), gambling situation, and our thoughts on what is all going on at Northwestern. Episodes are out weekly, and...

Welcome back Hawk Fans! Tyler and I decided to fire up another episode this Memorial Day Weekend as we enter the summer season! We are less than 100 days away from kickoff! Topics in this episode include: Gary Barta's retirement, Swarm Beer, Iowa's NIL collective and how it's doing, Iowa vs Penn St slated for 7pm night game on CBS, a quick look at Iowa's schedule, and more. Thanks...

Welcome back Hawk Fans! It's been a while, but we are back for this one episode as we enter the summer season. We will be back for regular weekly episodes at the end of July as we prepare for the 2023 football season. Topics in this episode include a little spring update, Cade being QB #1 and what the means going into this year, Kaleb Brown choosing Iowa, transfer portal grades, and more! Tyle...

In this episode, Collin and Tyler talk about the recent updates on the transfer portal side of things, discuss the Music City Bowl, and talk a little Iowa Basketball.  Thank you for listening and supporting Hawk Talk on Melrose. Go Hawks!

Tyler and Collin discuss the recent news of Cade McNamara joining the hawks, Iowa finally using the transfer portal, NIL, and so much more. The future looks bright... Go Hawks!

Join Collin as he briefly goes over the 10-13 win yesterday in Minneapolis and previews the upcoming Black Friday game against Nebraska.

Collin talks Iowa's 83-67 road win against Seton Hall.

..And just like that.. Iowa is now in the driving seat to make it back to the Big 10 Championship thanks to our Defense/ST. In this episode we discuss the previous game against Wisconsin, we look ahead to this weekend's big matchup - the battle for the pig - as Iowa takes on Minnesota. We talk through possible scenarios of Iowa getting back to the Big 10 Championship game. We end the episode previ...

Topics in this episode: Purdue reaction, Wisconsin preview and prediction, CFB playoff rankings reaction, Iowa basketball reaction to the first game and look ahead.  Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast.  If you have a question you want us to answer during our Mailbag Segment, fire in those DMs on our Twitter account, or leave a comment on any of our Youtube channels.

Tyler and Collin briefly discuss Iowa's 33-7 win last weekend against NW, we then turn our attention to the game this weekend and preview/predict that game, we discuss the first CFB Playoff rankings, take a look at the upcoming CFB slate for this Saturday, and go over some Iowa basketball topics.   Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast.  If you have a question you want us...

Tyler and Collin react to Iowa's 54-10 loss to Ohio St last Saturday, we discuss what the hell Iowa did during the bye week, we talk about why it should be Padilla's job moving forward, we preview and predict the upcoming game against NW, and finish the episode off by looking at some other games happening in Week 8.   Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast. If you have a questi...

Tyler and Collin begin the show going over BF presser from last week, we preview and predict the game this weekend against OSU, Collin shows what the 12-team playoff in CFB should look like, and we finish going through our weekly mailbag questions.   Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast.  If you have a question you want us to answer during our Mailbag Segment, fire in th...

Tyler and Collin react to some games that happened in week 7 of CFB, and go over our Big 10 Power Rankings.

A little different episode.. going away from football and talking little basketball. Collin previews the 2022-2023 Iowa Basketball season and looks at what he thinks is the starting 5, ppg per play, and schedule predictions.

Topics in this episode: a year ago today we were the #2 team in the country and how it's gone downhill so fast, KF presser acting as if nothing is wrong, some type of change is a must, a look at Iowa's remaining schedule, and go over some other games in the Big 10 and CFB.  Please note: With Iowa's bye week this upcoming week we will not have an episode out until mid-week of the Ohio St game...

Topics in this episode include: Paul Chryst fired at Wisconsin, Accountability with the offense, breaking the tendencies offensively, Illinois preview & prediction, Big 10 landscape (Collin's wish of 20 teams in B1G, 4 divisions, 5 teams per division.. and how that would all work), Wager winners.  Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast. If you have a question you want us to...

Tyler and Collin react to Iowa's 27-14 loss against Michigan. Topics in this episode include: instant reaction, grades, a look at team stat rankings, the good the bad the ugly, where do we go from here (look ahead at the schedule), big 10 west standings/scores from yesterday, a look at some other games that happened week 5 of CFB.  Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast.  ...

We are entering week 5 of CFB as Iowa takes on #4 Michigan inside Kinnick on Saturday. We preview and predict the outcome of that game. Topics in this episode: Injuries are piling up, Quarter position report card, our thoughts on Big Noon Kickoff, Michigan preview & prediction, mailbag, wager winners.  Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast.   If you have a question yo...

Delayed Instant Reaction episode following Iowa's 27-10 win at Rutgers. We saw some positive things that we hope will carry the rest of the way, but still some things that need to be improved. Baby steps... Tyler and Collin also examine some other games that we saw in week 4 of CFB. Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast. If you have a question you want us to answer during our Mailb...

Conference play starts this weekend as Iowa travels to Piscataway to take on Rutgers. Tyler and Collin preview that game and give our prediction. We then dive into our weekly mailbag and finish the episode with our wager winners.  Thank you for supporting and listening to our podcast.  If you have a question you want us to answer during our Mailbag Segment, fire in those DMs on our Twitt...

Delayed instant reaction podcast following Iowa's 27-0 win against Nevada. Some glimpses of hope for the offense last night... still a lot of work to do but was still encouraging to see the baby steps.

Tyler and Collin discuss their thoughts on Kirk Ferentz's press conference on Tuesday. We then get into previewing and predicting this week's matchup against Nevada. And then we do our week 3 wager winners.   Thank you all for listening and supporting our podcast. Go Hawks!