Hawkeye fans get ready.

It's time for the Hawkeye Nation radio show, powered by the Polk County I Club on Des Moines

Sports Station 1460 AM and now 106.3 FM KXNO.

And welcome to the hawkidnation.com radio show here on 106.3 KX&O.

My name is Andrew Downs.

We'll bring you home for the next hour or so talking all things Hawkeye Sports.

And I'm not alone.

I'm joined by my good friend, the grand poobawkeyev Nation.com.

The president of the Polk County Eye Club.

It's Joe Schmelka.

What's up, Joe?

Hey, buddy. Well, you know, tough weekend, obviously and some shocking stuff going on in the football world. And you're just kind of like, wow, what a, what a cookie, what a cookie crazy year.

I didn't, I didn't see the Iowa team looking like this.

I didn't see coaches getting fired this early.

I mean, there's just a lot of crazy stuff going on right now.

There really is.

Before we get to that, the Michigan game and look at it, Illinois,

let's touch on that here real quickly.

Obviously, Paul Chris was fired by Wisconsin after their loss to Illinois, a beatdown at home

from Illinois on Saturday. Obviously, Scott Frost already lost his job. That's two Big Ten

West coaches who have been fired during the season. The Frost one, I think, was less surprising,

certainly. This Paul Chris firing really,

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