Indiana Game Recap

So since it was Halloween the Hawkeyes took Trick or Treat to the extreme by tricking everyone in Kinnick for three quarters only to give them a treat in the fourth quarter.

For a team that was 8-0 and coming off of two tough road victories, you hoped that they would come out with a little bit more emotion than they did. They came out flat a took a punch in the mouth from Indiana as the Hoosiers marched down the field and made it 7-0. On the drive, Iowa was gouged in the run game by Indiana spreading the field and taking advantage of Iowa's linebacker's being out of the box. Outside of that drive I can't recall any running plays that Indiana ran the rest of the game that had much success. The rest of the first half the Iowa defense really played lights out, they gave up 14 more points, but Indiana also had short fields on both of the touchdowns. Iowa's offense in the first half could be summed up in one word, pathetic. Take away the one deep ball to DJK that the Indiana corner just missed knocking down. On the Touchdown run by Wegher, Eubanks pulled out and led up the hole getting a key block on an Indiana defender. One of several key blocks that he had in what I would call his best game as a Hawkeye. The defense came up with a huge play in the third quarter as Indiana was knocking on the door to add to their 14 point lead, off of a ricochet Tyler Sash picked off the pass and took it the house. The third quarter would be something that Stanzi would like to forget as he threw 4 int's in the quarter alone. In the game Stanzi had 5 picks and in re-watching the game you have to think that the wind had something to do with a couple of them. He made a couple of good throws and ended up having a career high yardage wise. It took awhile for the Hawks to get going, but the poured it on with 28 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to end up looking like they actually won convincingly. A lot of fans have called out O'Keefe's play calling, but if the two deep ball int's hadn't hung in the air so long and were caught for TD's, the score would look a lot worse than it did.
In their first 9 games of the season, Iowa has trailed in 8 of them. This season is starting to have a strange Ohio State 2002 fell to it, all Iowa does is win games by any means necessary.