LOS ANGELES -- After every game it plays, no matter the ramifications, Iowa employs a 24-hour rule.
The Hawkeyes get one day to look back -- in joy, satisfaction, disappointment, anger, regret. Get it all out, because when the 24 hours end, it’s time to move on.
Depending on whom you ask, the rule, put into practice in the wake of Iowa’s 16-13 loss on Dec. 5 to Michigan State in the Big Ten championship, was either difficult to follow or completely unrealistic.
“Doesn’t matter if we would have won the game,” Iowa quarterback C.