I’ll be the first to say it. The Iowa football team probably didn’t deserve to win that game. Throughout the game, I felt like they were outcoached, save for the first drive of the game. At the end of the day though, a bizarre game came down to one of the whackiest endings I’ve never seen.
Let’s start with the Iowa issues though.
They moved the ball well, but they couldn’t do anything in the red zone, and on 3rd and 1 they continuously picked rock as the Iowa State Cyclones picked paper. Whether it was the failed play-action attempt (that to be fair, I liked) that Iowa State snuffed out and blitzed too many for Stanley to handle.