Your Iowa Hawkeyes coughed away a chance at an appearance at the Big Ten Championship game for the second-consecutive year in a humiliating 24-17 loss to Nebraska in Iowa City.
In a season of horrible halves, the first frame against Nebraska may have been the worst of the year out of Iowa. Cooper DeJean got hurt in what looked like a concussion on the first drive, and Nebraska QB Casey Thompson hit Trey Palmer—covered by replacements TJ Hall and Jamison Heinz—early and often to sprint the Cornhuskers to an early 17-0 lead. Nebraska scored on an 87-yard bomb to Palmer midway through the first quarter and that was basically it.