The tenth ranked Wisconsin Badgers marched into Kinnick Stadium on Saturday afternoon and defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes, 17-9. The Hawkeyes fall to 5-3 on the season and 2-2 in conference play. Wisconsin snapped their two game losing streak and improves to 5-2 on the season and 2-2 in the Big Ten.
Despite the Hawkeyes losing, this game was everything that people hoped and expected for. Both teams struggled to establish a ground game, defense dominated all game and it was exciting until the end. Besides Iowa’s two field-goals in the second quarter, neither team scored more than once in any quarter.