Hawkeyes 25 greatest football wins in past 50 years

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#25 - Coach Bob Commings called it “the greatest Iowa victory in the last 20 years” after the Hawkeyes stunned No. 11 Penn State 7-6 on Sept. 25, 1976, at Beaver Stadium

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#24 - Iowa celebrates its 125th season of football this fall. And there has never been a comeback like the one the Hawkeyes pulled off on Sept. 17, 2011.

Trailing Pittsburgh by 21 points late in the third quarter, Iowa stormed back for a 31-27 victory.

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#23 - Iowa senior quarterback Ed Podolak was knocked out of the game. That set the stage for a sophomore backup from Cedar Rapids, Larry Lawrence, to make his college debut and finish off a 21-20 upset of No. 8 Oregon State on Sept. 21, 1968.

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#22 - The tense moments of a game were replaced by tears. An emotional week finally caught up to Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz. The Hawkeyes won at Penn State, 6-4, on Oct. 23, 2004. The day before, Ferentz gave the eulogy at the funeral for his father, John.

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#21 - Iowa had lost 12 games in a row. UCLA was ranked 12th. And first-year Iowa coach Bob Commings was going against Dick Vermeil, who would later lead the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl title. Not a matchup made in Hawkeye heaven … on paper.

Iowa had opened the 1974 season with a 24-7 loss at Michigan, so this was Commings’ home debut in a stadium where he once played as a scrappy, undersized lineman for Forest Evashevski. And those who were at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 21 saw one of the biggest upsets in school history.

Iowa 21, UCLA 10.

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#20 - Iowa coach Hayden Fry said it best.

“Doing something like this was beyond our wildest dreams,” Fry said after Iowa took the final step to an unlikely Rose Bowl berth with a 36-7 thrashing of Michigan State on Nov. 21, 1981 at Kinnick Stadium. The Hawkeyes had started the year with a string of 19 straight non-winning seasons. They ended up in Pasadena.

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#19 - The headline in the Big Peach on Nov. 3, 1991, put the moment in perspective:

Iowa’s grief tempered by victory

A day after six people died in a horrific shooting on the University of Iowa campus, the eighth-ranked Hawkeyes walked into Ohio Stadium and beat Ohio State 16-9. Iowa had lost on 21 of its previous 24 trips to Columbus. And the victory came even though Iowa’s starting quarterback, Matt Rodgers, sprained a knee in the third quarter and couldn’t return to the game.

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#18 - Iowa-Minnesota series covers 107 games.

But never has the battle for Floyd of Rosedale ended the way the border duel of Nov. 22, 1986, did at the Metrodome. It led to a whole new batch of mathematically challenged Minnesota jokes.

Iowa trailed 17-0 at halftime. But Iowa coach Hayden Fry’s halftime speech worked magic.

“The way he spoke to us, it was almost like we were winning the game,” receiver Robert Smith said.

A 49-yard field goal by Rob Houghtlin and Peter Marciano’s 89-yard punt return for a touchdown gave Iowa a third-quarter spark. The Hawkeyes would eventually take a 27-24 lead, but Minnesota’s Chip Lohmiller tied it up with a 49-yarder of his own with 63 seconds remaining in the game. Lohmiller also made a school-record 62-yarder in the second quarter.

This game was played before overtime was part of college football. It was destined to end in a 27-27 stalemate when Houghtlin missed a 51-yard field-goal attempt with five ticks remaining. But that’s where math became the deciding factor.

The Gophers had 12 men on the field for the kick. A television shot of the Minnesota sideline showed coaches frantically trying to sneak a player off the field. A 15-yard penalty later, Houghtlin drilled a second-chance kick listed at 37 yards for the victory.

“I sure was lucky, going from goat to hero in a matter of minutes,” Houghtlin said.

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#17 - Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz had one idea on how to stop Northwestern’s powerful offense. His defensive coordinator, Norm Parker, had another.

“We were 180 degrees apart,” Ferentz said. “And I’m glad we went with his choice.”

Instead of trying to slow down Northwestern’s potent passing game, Iowa concentrated on stopping the run. That strategy resulted in a 27-17 victory over the 12th-ranked Wildcats on Nov. 11, 2000.

Northwestern came into Kinnick Stadium averaging 38.4 points and 486.3 yards of total offense. The Hawkeyes allowed just 17 points and 377 yards. This was a Wildcat team that rolled up 654 yards of total offense against Michigan in a 54-51 victory two weeks before.

Northwestern’s Damien Anderson finished with 132 yards on 31 carries. That was 46 yards under his average.

“It was as good a job as we’ve had done against our offense,” Wildcats coach Randy Walker said.

Iowa’s defense sacked Zac Kustok seven times and limited Northwestern to 129 yards on the ground. It was Iowa’s first victory over a rated opponent since a 35-17 triumph over Purdue in 1997. Nate Kaeding kicked field goals of of 42 and 46 yards, and quarterback Kyle McCann threw two touchdown passes and ran for another.

“Are we where we want to be?” Ferentz, in his second year as the Hawkeyes’ head coach, asked afterwards. “No, but I’m excited about the future.”

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#16 - Iowa’s first bowl appearance under Kirk Ferentz ended with an unlikely player being named the offensive player of the game.

Sophomore running back Aaron Greving stepped in for Ladell Betts, who was injured early in the game, and rushed for 115 yards in 25 carries as the Hawkeyes knocked off Texas Tech, 19-16, in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29, 2001.

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#15 - Michigan rushed for 22 yards. Iowa’s Jermelle Lewis came off the bench to rush for 109 yards. That is just a snapshot of the 34-9 beatdown No. 13 Iowa put on No. 8 Michigan before a crowd of 111,496 at Michigan Stadium on Oct. 26, 2002.

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#14 - When Texas native Hayden Fry took the Iowa job in 1979, “Hook ‘Em Hawks” became a popular bumper sticker. The phrase was borrowed from the University of Texas, where “Hook ‘Em Horns” is part of the culture.

So you can understand why Fry, who had a 2-11 record against Texas as the coach at SMU and North Texas State, was so thrilled with Iowa’s 55-17 thrashing of the Longhorns in the Freedom Bowl on Dec. 26, 1984.

“The biggest victory of my career,” Fry said afterwards. “I’ve never had a game mean so much to me.”

Quarterback Chuck Long shredded a touted Texas defense, passing for six touchdowns — the most ever in a bowl game — and 461 yards. He did it in a steady rain. Long, who completed 29 of 39 passes with no interceptions, set Iowa single-game records for completions and touchdowns in the one-sided affair.

“This was a nice way to end the year,” Long said after the Hawkeyes finished the season 8-4-1. “But I want to go home now and talk to some people about my future.”

A rule change had given Long the option of an extra season of eligibility. He later accepted, and led Iowa to a Big Ten title, a 10-2 record and the Rose Bowl in 1985.

Long threw touchdown passes to five different players against the Longhorns — Jonathan Hayes, Mike Flagg, Bill Happel, Robert Smith and Scott Helverson.

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#13 - defensive masterpiece.

Wisconsin had an edge in that race to Pasadena when it hosted Iowa on Nov. 14, 1981. Madison had been awash in Rose Bowl hype the week of the game. But the Hawkeyes jumped out to a 17-0 halftime lead, on a Tom Nichol field goal and a pair of short touchdown runs by Phil Blatcher.

That’s when Iowa coach Hayden Fry put all his chips on the shoulders of his defense and the leg of all-America punter Reggie Roby.

“I told the players at halftime that we didn’t want to take any chances and give Wisconsin good field position with cheap turnovers,” Fry said. “So we relied on Reggie Roby to keep booming the ball to the other end of the field, and we figured the defense could do the rest.”

Wisconsin had just one first down and 29 yards of offense in that first half of the 17-7 loss.

“I think Wisconsin was uptight because of all the Rose Bowl talk,” said Mark Bortz, a Wisconsin native and a rock in Iowa’s defensive front.

Iowa finished the game with just seven first downs, but moved the ball well enough to keep it out of Wisconsin’s hands. And Roby averaged 53.7 yards on seven punts. One of his two 55-yarders went out-of-bounds on the Wisconsin 3.

The Badgers didn’t score until quarterback Jess Cole connected with Thad McFadden on a 55-yard score with just more than 2 minutes remaining.

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#12 - Iowa won its school-record eighth straight game to start a season on Oct. 24, 2009, at Michigan State. The streak remained alive because of the most famous slant pattern in school history.

It was run by sophomore wide receiver Marvin McNutt, and it came on the final play. Michigan State had taken a 13-9 lead on a 30-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Kirk Cousins to Blair White with 1 minute, 37 seconds remaining in the game. But quarterback Ricky Stanzi led the Hawkeyes down the field, against a shrinking clock and long odds.

The perfect record looked to be gone when Michigan State intercepted a Stanzi pass inside the 10-yard line. But the Spartans were called for defensive holding. That put the ball on the Michigan State 7. After three straight incompletions, it came down to one last chance. Offensive coordinator Ken O’Keefe sent in the slant play.

“I told myself just to run perfect technique and do what you’ve been taught,” McNutt said. “It worked.”

McNutt got inside cornerback Chris Rucker and made the catch for the winning touchdown. A bench-clearing celebration ensued.

“I just remember freaking out and everyone jumping around,” Stanzi said after Iowa’s first victory in East Lansing since 1995.

McNutt was buried by teammates in the end zone after his catch.

“I couldn’t breathe,” McNutt said.

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#11 - Iowa dismantled Iowa State 57-3 on Sept. 28, 1985. Two days later, the Hawkeyes moved to the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press college football poll. Michigan State came to Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 5, intent on making it a short stay.

Iowa jumped out to a 13-0 lead, but the Spartans stormed back. Running back Lorenzo White was a riddle the Hawkeye defense never solved, rushing for 226 yards, and freshman quarterback Bobby McAllister got a hot hand. Michigan State moved in front, 24-13.

But the Hawkeye offense finally came back to life, taking a 28-24 lead. Michigan State countered to regain a 31-28 advantage with just over 4 minutes left.

Quarterback Chuck Long and the Hawkeyes took possession at their own 21. Eventually, Iowa had the ball at the Spartans’ 2-yard line with 31 seconds to play and was out of timeouts.

Iowa coach Hayden Fry called a bootleg. Long said to his coach, “Are you sure? What if I don’t make it in?”

Fry looked at Long and said, “Charlie, don’t worry about it. You’re going to get in. Just run the play.”

Long faked to Ronnie Harmon over the middle, rolled to his right and scored untouched.

The game lasted 3 hours, 40 minutes, and the two offenses combined to roll up more than 1,000 yards. But in the end, it was the last 2 yards that kept Iowa No. 1 in the country.

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#10 - This was the most hyped Iowa-Iowa State game ever. There is no close No. 2. The Cyclones came to Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 17, 1977, the first time the in-state rivals had met in 43 years.

Adding fuel to the fire was a motivational ploy by Iowa State coach Earle Bruce. When his team returned to the field for the final time before kickoff, they had changed into jerseys that read “Beat Iowa.” Underdog and motivated Iowa posted a 12-10 victory.

All the points were scored in a frantic 7 1/2-minute span of the first half. Iowa State’s Tom Buck returned a punt 63 yards for a score. Iowa countered with a 77-yard touchdown run by Dennis Mosley on a sweep play. But Hawkeye kicker Dave Holsclaw missed the point-after.

On Iowa State’s next possession, Jim Molini and Joe Hufford stripped Cyclone quarterback Terry Rubley of the ball and Iowa recovered. Jon Lazar would score on a 10-yard touchdown run. The Hawkeyes went for two and failed. Scott Kollman pulled Iowa State within 12-10 with a 42-yard field goal into the wind just 2 1/2 minutes into the second quarter.

There would be no more scoring. Kollman had a chance to give Iowa State the lead with a 44-yard field goal try into the wind with just under 4 minutes remaining. He missed, and the Cyclones had come up just short. The teams combined for a paltry 14 first downs. Iowa State had just 96 yards of total offense, Iowa 192.

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#9 - Nebraska was a 16-point favorite in the 1981 season opener at Iowa. That actually seemed generous, considering that the Hawkeyes had not had a winning season since 1961 and the Cornhuskers were traditionally a national title contender.

Nebraska had defeated Iowa the previous season in Lincoln, 57-zip. And that’s why Iowa’s 10-7 victory on Sept. 12 was so stunning.

“This is one of the hardest losses I’ve had since I’ve been at Nebraska,” losing coach Tom Osborne said. “I think we have better players overall than Iowa does … I think.”

In Hayden Fry’s third game as Iowa’s coach in 1979, his team had a 21-7 lead on Nebraska with 2 minutes remaining in the third quarter and lost 24-21. Two years later, Fry’s team finally learned to win a close one. Iowa took a 10-0 lead at halftime on a 2-yard touchdown run by Eddie Phillips and Lon Olejniczak’s 35-yard field goal on the first play of the second quarter.

Shut out for the first three quarters of a game for the first time since the 1974 Sugar Bowl, Nebraska got a break when it recovered Phillips’ fumble at the Iowa 33 in the final minute of the third quarter. I-back Roger Craig, from Davenport, eventually scored on a 1-yard run with 11:42 remaining in the game.

After the Cornhuskers’ Kevin Seibel missed a game-tying 37-yarder with 6<AF>1/2<XA> minutes to play, Iowa’s dream of a Big Red upset became a reality.

From left, Kirk Ferentz, Barry Alvarez and Hayden Fry celebrate the upset of Nebraska.

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#8 - Michigan was leading the nation in total offense coming into this Oct. 20, 1990 game with Iowa. The Hawkeye defense didn’t allow a first down until the third quarter, and gave up just 11 for the game. And Iowa stunned the Wolverines in Michigan Stadium 24-23.

Michigan had been ranked No. 1 in the nation two weeks earlier, and was No. 10 when the Hawkeyes came to town as a 13-point underdog. Iowa left the Big House 5-1 and 3-0 in the Big Ten.

“Coach (Hayden) Fry is like a little kid in a candy store,” Iowa quarterback Matt Rodgers said. “He smells the Rose Bowl now, and it carries over to the rest of us.”

Rodgers had a stellar day, completing 27-of-37 passes for 276 yards and one touchdown. He also ran for a second score. But Rodgers was never better than he was on Iowa’s winning drive. He completed five of six passes on a march that ended when Paul Kujawa scored from a yard out with 1 minute 9 seconds to play. Jeff Skillett added the point-after kick.

Michigan had one more chance, but Iowa linebacker John Derby picked off Elvis Grbac’s pass on the second play of the series and the celebration was on.

Iowa did make it to the Rose Bowl that season with a 6-2 Big Ten record, its third trip under Fry and fifth overall. Iowa finished the season 8-4 overall after a 46-34 loss to Washington in Pasadena.

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#7 - Illinois was ranked No. 5. Iowa was 13th. Memorial Stadium in Champaign was sold out for this clash of Big Ten co-leaders on Nov. 3, 1990.

The Illini, on a six-game winning streak, had given up just one touchdown in the previous 15 quarters. But Iowa scored on its first five possessions of the game and clobbered Illinois, 54-28.

Iowa sprinted out to a 35-14 halftime lead. Nick Bell had 145 of his 168 rushing yards over the first two quarters.

“He’s probably the best running back in the whole country right now,” Iowa quarterback Matt Rodgers said.


Tony Stewart also finished with 101 yards rushing for Iowa. Rodgers completed 11-of-16 passes for 168 yards and two touchdowns. Even Coach Hayden Fry’s exotics worked twice for touchdowns – Stewart’s halfback pass to Danan Hughes and Jim Hartlieb’s pass to Matt Whitaker on a fake field goal.

“Everything just worked out great,” Fry said. “What a gratifying victory – on national TV and our third big upset on the road (Michigan State and Michigan were the first two). The running was great, the blocking was great, and when we had to pass the ball that was exceptional, too.”

The Rose Bowl talk left Champaign with the loss. It was Hawkeye fans with roses on their minds now. Iowa lost two of its last three games – a 27-26 crusher at home to Ohio State and a 31-24 loss at Minnesota – but still got the Rose Bowl bid.

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#6 - Hail Mary? On Nov. 14, 1987, it became known as Hartlieb to Cook. In the playbook it was known as “Lion 75 Y Trail.”

Fourth down, 23 yards to go from the Ohio State 28 with less than a minute remaining. And trailing Ohio State, 27-22. In Ohio Stadium, where Iowa hadn’t won since 1959. That’s what quarterback Chuck Hartlieb faced when he brought his team to the line of scrimmage

“There was a time out,” Hartlieb said. “And coach (Hayden) Fry said to me, ‘Chuck, what do you want to run?’ And I knew exactly what I wanted to do.”

Hartlieb wanted to throw a pass to his roommate, tight end Marv Cook.

“I said, ‘coach, we should run Lion 75 Y Trail,’” Hartlieb recalled. “And he said, ‘We’re going to do it.’ We called up to (quarterbacks coach Bill) Snyder and he said, ‘Go.’”

Cook sprinted down the right sideline as Hartlieb dropped back. The pass hung in the air, and Cook had to come back for it. He caught it and bulled his way into the end zone.

“I think I made it by an inch,” Cook said.

Hartlieb wasn’t sure if Cook had scored.

“I was a long way away, so I hustled back down there in the event we needed another play,” Hartlieb said.

Ohio Stadium had been the only Big Ten venue Fry had not won at, so this completed a sweep. The loss also cost Ohio State’s Earle Bruce his job

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#5 - It matched the biggest upset, ratings wise, in school history. Iowa’s 24-23 victory over No. 3 Penn State on Nov. 8, 2008 at Kinnick Stadium also crushed the Nittany Lions’ national title hopes.

“Biggest win in Hawkeye history? Who knows,” Iowa’s Mitch King said. “Let’s just say this is something I’ll remember as long as I’m alive.”

Daniel Murray’s line-drive 31-yard field goal with one second remaining completed a rally from a 23-14 deficit with 29 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Penn State entered the game with a 9-0 record.

It marked the fourth time Iowa had defeated a third-ranked team — Notre Dame in 1939 and Ohio State in 1960 and 1983 were the other three. Iowa also beat No. 2 Michigan in 1985, but the Hawkeyes were ranked No. 1.

Iowa’s winning drive started at its own 29 after a Tyler Sash interception. Fifteen plays later, Murray delivered his game winner. In between was a huge pass interference call and two receptions each by Brandon Myers and Derrell Johnson-Koulianos.

After quarterback Ricky Stanzi had driven his team into winning position, it fell on the foot of Murray to finish the deal.

“I was nervous until I got on the field,” Murray said.

But King was nervous on the sidelines.

“I had my eyes closed,” King said. “I just listened to the crowd to see if he made it.”

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#4 - Georgia Tech’s offense had been unstoppable, averaging 307.2 rushing yards and running all the way to the school’s first Orange Bowl game in 43 years.

But the ninth-ranked Yellow Jackets were about to run into No. 10 Iowa and defensive coordinator Norm Parker. Iowa’s 24-14 Orange Bowl victory on Jan. 5, 2010, was the program’s first triumph in an elite bowl since the 1959 Rose Bowl.

Georgia Tech ran for just 143 yards and passed for 12 against the Parker-designed defense.

“It’s disappointing because we haven’t played many games like that,” Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said.

The Yellow Jackets were never able to neutralize Iowa defensive end Adrian Clayborn, who had nine tackles and two sacks and was named the game’s most outstanding player.

“Our defense was tremendous,” Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi said. “They made our job a lot easier.”

Stanzi got the Hawkeyes off to a quick start, marching his team on touchdown drives of 80 and 83 yards. Stanzi completed his first eight passes.

His ninth was caught, too — Georgia Tech’s Jerrard Tarrant returned it 40 yards for a touchdown.

But the Iowa defense had the Yellow Jackets’ offense spinning in neutral for the most part.

Iowa finished the season seventh in the AP poll, it’s fourth top-10 showing in eight seasons.

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#3 - Iowa coach Hayden Fry knew it was a gamble.

The Hawkeyes were clinging to a 13-7, fourth-quarter lead in this top-10 duel at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 24, 1983. Iowa was ranked seventh. No. 3 Ohio State had won nine straight in the series.

Iowa had a third-and-six situation from its own 27. Fry could have played it close to the vest, run the ball, punted it and hoped his defense remained stubborn.

But Fry called for a pass play. Quarterback Chuck Long threw to wide receiver Dave Moritz, who had beaten Shaun Gayle, made the catch at the Ohio State 37 and zigged and zagged his way to the end zone for a 20-7 lead.

“I think everybody would have been ready to string me up if that long pass hadn’t worked, or if it had been intercepted,” Fry said. “But I’m sure Ohio State didn’t think we’d do it. They probably thought we’d have to run the ball and then have to punt, so they’d get the ball back. Instead, I gambled and it worked.”

Long entered the game third nationally in pass efficiency. Ohio State’s Mike Tomczak was No. 1. And after Long’s scoring toss to Moritz, Tomczak marched Ohio State down the field for a touchdown to narrow the deficit to 20-14 with 2:21 to play.

The Buckeyes were unsuccessful with an on-side kick, but got the ball back on downs with less than a minute remaining. Ohio State’s fate was sealed when Tomczak got picked off for a third time, by Devon Mitchell.

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#2 - Warren Holloway called it a dream, and who can blame him when you snatch victory from the certain jaws of defeat?

Iowa fans will never forget the first — and only — touchdown catch of Holloway’s career. It came on the last play of the Jan. 1, 2005 Capital One Bowl, a 56-yarder with no time left against No. 12 Louisiana State.

The play, called “All Up,” gave the Hawkeyes a shocking 30-25 victory. Quarterback Drew Tate delivered the ball, Holloway caught it and ran into history.

“You can’t write a better script than this,” Holloway said.


A more believable one, perhaps.

“I thought I overthrew him at first,” said Tate, who was named the game’s MVP. “If he’d gotten tackled, I don’t know what would have happened.”

Iowa would have lost.

“The resiliency these guys have shown — it’s hard to put into words,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. “For this thing to end the way it did was pretty fitting.”

LSU had taken a 25-24 lead with 46 seconds to play. Iowa’s mission was to get in position for a field goal. With the ball at the Hawkeyes’ 49 and a time out left, Tate spiked it. But officials ruled Tate did it before the ball was put in play.

After marking off the 5-yard penalty, the clock started. Ferentz thought the penalty killed the clock. So when Tate dropped back, it was the last play of the game.

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We should compile a list of the 25 most disappointing losses under the Kirk Ferentz regime but then I'd have to read about how ISU continues to beat us. 9 freaking times