Iowa Hawkeyes football

Lightning brought a screeching halt to Iowa's best performance this year, so let's try to make sense of it before it has even ended.

It remains to be seen if this was not a one-hit wonder by BF, Petras, and company, but it’s the first ray of hope through the storm clouds in a long time. When Kirk is on the recruiting trail and tells kids they could play on Sundays I doubt this is what he had in mind. Throwing in the towel at midnight I got what sleep I could and finished up the game this morning. Petras looked better than he has in the last couple of games and the return of Ragaini and Johnson most definitely helped in the passing game. The NCAA rules governing a delay state that if a game cannot be finished due to weather the teams may, by agreement of ADs and coaches, postpone the contest to a later date, end the game by the current score, or declare a no contest. The offense really showed some signs of life in Spencer’s performance, Brian’s playcalling, and execution. Then God once again decided ten more minutes of football was just too much and sent the teams back to their locker rooms for the second time in one night. Both have taken plenty of heat so far this season, but at least in the pre-delay half of this game things were looking better for the beleaguered duo. It was Iowa’s longest longest play from scrimmage this year and just what the team needed to keep the soaked crowd energized. Nothing less than a good old fashioned shellacking of Nevada would silence the critics and reassure fans that this team was on the right track. The return of receivers Keagan Johnson and Nico Ragaini has been another big story this year. With each lightning strike, the 30 minute countdown gets reset, and a glance at the current radar shows a gigantic blob of green, yellow, and red stretching back to Des Moines, so there’s no telling when (or if) this game will resume.

While the game felt as though it would never see its conclusion after three lightning delays, the Iowa Hawkeyes shut out the Nevada Wolf Pack 27-0 early ...

His field goals were drilled, by the way. Most impressively, he threatened Nevada down the field with several shot throws that were oh-so-close. Follow her on Twitter at @Raven_XReport. You can reach her at [email protected]. The Wolf Pack struggled to get much of anything going against the Hawkeyes as they had just 64 yards in the first half. He completed 14 of his 26 pass attempts for 175 yards and a touchdown, his first of the season.

IOWA CITY, Iowa– In a game punctuated by three rain delays (lasting 236 minutes) the University of Iowa football team defeated Nevada, 27-0, early Sunday ...

Seven different receivers caught a pass in the game and the passing attack had a season-high 175 yards and one touchdown. The Hawkeyes have opened the game on defense 75 times (42-33). - K Drew Stevens went 2-for-2 on field goal attempts in the first two attempts of his career. - The Hawkeye defense limited Nevada to 151 yards of total offense. It is the first time since 1986 that the Hawkeye defense has held two of the first three opponents to 160 yards or fewer (125 at Iowa State; 159 vs. It was the Hawkeyes’ first shutout in Kinnick Stadium since defeating Rutgers, 30-0, on Sept. - After the third lightning delay of the game Nevada lined up for a 57-yard field goal but the kick was no good. - WR Nico Ragaini and WR Keagan Johnson made their season debuts after missing the first two games because of injury. - RB Kaleb Johnson tallied his first career 100-yard game, finishing with 103 yards and two touchdowns on seven attempts for a 14.7 yard average. But in the first half I thought we had a little rhythm offensively. Obviously, it was good to get Nico back and Keagan back and then Brody was able to get involved a little bit too at the receiver position. To cap off a four play 41-yard drive Spencer Petras connected from 21-yards out to a wide open Arland Bruce IV in the end zone.