Posted on 10/24/2009 7:31:45 PM PDT by Free Vulcan
Last play of the game, 4th down!!! Hawks win!!!
8-0 BAYBEE!!!!
Go hawkeyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good god, the possibility of a Big 10 team in the national championship is just nauseating.
Anyone who uses a prevent defense should be shot.
How is OSU doing? U of M stinks, MSU stinks.
Prevent just prevents winning.
Well puke away buddy!
GO HAWKS!
What a game. Brutal smash-face Big Ten football. Blood and body parts left on the field.
Iowan here, and I agree. Or agreed. I just watched a bit of the Alabama and Florida games. Just as ugly. They may just have to cancel the bcs title game this year.
MSU fan here. It was a great exciting game on both sides of the ball. MSU did not give up. I do not know how you can stop a pass to a tight end in a short yardage situation. He has the corner by 40 Lbs. Two goal line sands for the ages. And a hook and ladder. Too funny.
LOL!
That “hook & ladder” play snookered the Hawks pretty good. Perfect gimmick play called at the perfect time.
New school record.
First time in history that a University of Iowa football team has gone 8-0 to start the season.
It was. Hats off to MSU, they really played great. Hook and ladder, unbelievable.
Yeah, MSU did good. Hard nosed defense, can’t disrespect that.
That was a great game to watch. As a buckeye fan I’d love to see an undefeated Iowa team come into the Shoe. (i.e., 1985). No TD’s for 58 1/2 minutes and then 2 TD’s in the last 97 seconds. When MSU scored that TD to go ahead the first thing I asked was didthey score to soon. Congrats to Iowa. Great game.
The MSU defender should have committed pass interference on that last play and make Iowa complete another pass for the win. I wonder if the MSU coaches told the players that or not.
That game was better than the U of M vs MSU game in my humble opinion. I love college football. LOL Especially a game like that. Raw till the end. If you walked you lost. LOL
Qwitcherbellyachin! You’re probably one of those condom (trojan) fans, huh?
God no. Just someone who is sick of seeing Big 10 teams stink it up time after time again in good bowl games. How that god awful conference has an automatic bid is a joke.
Easy now. It always help for the opposing team to be playing in their backyards. When was the last bowl game in Big 10 Country? Oh yeah, NEVER! Oh how a playoff system would be great to even things out...
http://officialsportsreport.com/teampage_email.asp?UpdateType=&teamID=31&breakingID=2673&Year=2009&Month=10
“”Official Sports Report: October 25, 2009
There’s Something Special Happenin’ Here
A team of ‘fate’ playing in black-and-gold?
by Nicholas Richards
EAST LANSING, Mich — Iowa finally found the tonic to their Spartan Stadium Kryptonite. Now, a team of fate looks to be emerging in Iowa City.
With only one timeout left, 70 yards to go, and 90 seconds separating the Hawkeyes from their first loss of the year and the Spartans from the top of the Big Ten standings, Ricky Stanzi drove these Hawkeyes of Destiny to a stunning result, finding Marvin McNutt on fourth-and-goal from the 7 as time expired to give Iowa an amazing 15-13 come-from-behind win over Michigan State. The victory gave Kirk Ferentz his first win at Spartan Stadium, Iowa’s first win at Spartan Stadium since 1995, their 12th-straight win, and their first 8-0 start in school history.
Iowa looked to be on course for their first loss of the year after Kirk Cousins found Blair White wide open on a 30-yard reception with 1:39 remaining to give the Spartans a 13-9 lead, a play that blew open a game that had been dominated by defense and field goals. But the Hawkeyes were helped by clutch throws from Stanzi to both Derrell Johnson-Koulianos and Trey Stross and perhaps a little fate – Michigan State was called for a hold on a Stanzi pass that had been intercepted – to set up the late heroics from Stanzi and McNutt.
McNutt had played very little until the final drive of the game. He caught his only two receptions of the game on the last drive, and he came up with the play of the year, shielding his body from Michigan State cornerback Chris L. Rucker to catch Stanzi’s pass on a slant route in the end zone to set off a wild celebration in the Iowa section of the stadium.
Iowa had fallen behind with 1:39 remaining shortly after taking their first lead of the game with 2:56 left on Daniel Murray’s second 20-yard field goal of the night. The Spartans marched down the field on the back of a clever hook-and-ladder to White to get into Iowa territory. Two plays after the hook-and-ladder trick, Spartan Stadium was rocking, as White was wide-open at the goal line for the go-ahead score.
With their perfect season on the ropes, DJK took the ensuing kickoff to the Iowa 30. Stanzi had to operate without Dace Richardson at guard, who was injured on Iowa’s first possession of the game, and Colin Sandeman, who had been knocked out of the game in the third quarter on a helmet-to-helmet hit.
It didn’t matter to the Iowa signal caller. He calmly picked up completions as he marched Iowa down the field. He hit a big 21-yard strike to Stross on third-and-seven that moved the chains to the Michigan State 31. He found DJK on a curl route that put the ball at the Michigan State 15.
With under 30 seconds remaining, Michigan State looked to have ended matters by picking off a Stanzi fade to DJK near the goal line. However, the Spartans were called for holding DJK, and Iowa had a second life at the Spartan 7.
Stanzi threw toward Moeaki on first-and-goal at the goal line, but Moeaki was double-teamed and the Spartans knocked it down. Stanzi looked toward DJK on second down, but DJK went one way and Stanzi threw another for an incompletion. With time dwindling, the Iowa quarterback looked to Stross on a slant, but the pass was well-defended and knocked away from Stross at the goal line.
The Hawkeyes used their last timeout with two seconds left. Up stepped McNutt. Stanzi delivered the ball where it had to be, and McNutt positioned himself perfectly inside Rucker to snare the pass for the win. By rule, Iowa had to kick the extra point, but instead of risking a blocked point-after, Iowa took a knee to preserve a season of perfection.””
I guess you're not referring to Wisconsin winning the Rose Bowl in their last three appearances.
Iowa's Marvin McNutt celebrates with teammate Rafael Eubanks after catching the game winning pass in front of Michigan State's Chris L. Ricker with no time remaining in their game at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing Saturday night.
No. Then again, I was referring to things that didn’t happen nearly a decade ago :D
Doesn’t the Motor City bowl get played in Detroit :D
Actually, we agree 1,000% A playoff is desperately needed. My vitriol against the Big 10 in that instance is that they are the conference that leads the charge against having one. In fairness, the other conferences don’t seem to want one either, but the Big 10 (led by Ohio State President Gordon Gee) really, really, really wants to keep the status quo.
So you like the Mediocre Big 8 “12” better ALL NCAA Sports are taxpayer supported “farm” teams for the GREEDY “professional” “sports” team owners and “players”. You “bread and circus” people SUCK!
Well the Big 12 is much better than the Big 10 (and at least the Big 12 is capable of counting correctly). I don’t care if NCAA sports are farm systems for the pros. They’ve been that way long before I was born. I just want them to have a playoff in Division 1 college football like they do for every other sport in college sports.
As for being a “bread and circus” person, I don’t even know what that means. Here’s a tip. When you want to insult someone, try doing something meaningful like making the insult good.
Darn them Buckeye’s! I hope Iowa monkey stomps them in November!
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