The best quarterbacks the Iowa Hawkeyes have had under Kirk Ferentz have made their own luck. Since 1999, Iowa has never had the best playcallers or a cadre of elite skill guys so the person who most defines a Hawkeye season is the one under center. It ultimately comes down to one question:
Does everyone in the stadium believe you can make the play when the game is on the line?
In 2015, C.J. Beathard showed he could early with two scrambles against Iowa State and led that comeback. The 2015 team played most of it from ahead but part of the reason MSU felt so compelled to run the clock as close to 0:00 as possible is because they had already been snakebitten once and refused to do so again.