The Iowa Hawkeyes played a tackle football game this past weekend. They had some good moments, it seemed, and they felt like they happened exclusively on plays where they also committed penalties. It amounted to under 100 yards before mounting the perfunctory comeback attempt in the late 3rd quarter with Michigan up 20-0.
How they had a chance to make it a single possession game, I’ll never understand. Why they tried to make it so on a play they ran twice before in the series, I’ll understand even less, though it was executed well enough to understand why they did it.