The Iowa Hawkeyes took down their near-annual foil in Jeff Brohm’s Purdue Boilermakers many days ago. It was a delight to be in the stands for it for promptly 30 minutes and 17 seconds of game time. It was as thorough a domination as I’m going to see Iowa put on a team.
And then they sat it out.
A lot of these stats would look great if counting the only 30:17. Spencer Petras was well over 10 yards/pass at one point and Iowa was thoroughly dominating every facet. Yet games are 60 minutes long and Kirk Ferentz sims to the end when he’s got a three TD lead.