Fans recovering after Outback Bowl Loss

It still goes down as a sensational season for the Lions, who finished at 11-4 and still own that Big Ten championship.

King returned a kickoff 49 yards, ran a punt back 19 yards and counted one tackle for a loss among his five stops in the loss to the Gators.

Safety Marcell Harris was on Daniels less than 1.5 seconds after the snap.

The pep rally drew more than 4,000 fans that featured the band, cheerleaders and a showing of the Hawkeyes basketball game in Iowa City. All you have to do is say “Outback Bowl” to your server and a free, delicious Bloomin’ Onion is yours. Appleby ultimately made seven starts for Florida this season, filling in on multiple occasions for the oft-injured Luke Del Rio.

Well played, Iowa band.

The Gators never really played a complete game against even the lower teams of the SEC like Vanderbilt which was a 13-6 win. Junior RB Derrick Mitchell Jr. “Maybe a different game, possibly, but that’s not who I am”. Freshman DE Michael Slater (Parkway Central) redshirted previous year and has not played in 2016.

Wadley finished the season as Iowa’s leading rusher, gaining 1,081 yards, while a 45-yard performance left LeShun Daniels with 1,058 yards in his senior season. Those were Gardner’s second and third interceptions of the year, his first having occurred against Florida State.

Notable • Western Michigan leads the nation with a plus-19 turnover margin. They last won against Missouri in the Insight following the ’10 campaign.

He was relegated to practice squad work for most of that year before getting a short appearance in the Citrus Bowl. RB Jarvion Franklin holds the WMU record with 41 touchdowns rushing.

“That was a huge play in the game”. The matchup could turn into a defensive-minded contest given the way both teams have trended of late. But Penn State can get after the quarterback, with 18 players producing 39 sacks this season. Another interception came on Iowa’s following possession.

Score points on offense: Usually its score points on defense for teams to win games, in this one it may be just the opposite. Two have Wadley’s TD runs have gone for 75 yards.

Iowa’s 55 passing yards and 226 total yards in the game were also the fewest by a team in the Outback Bowl.

The Hawkeyes’ string of bowl game losses grows to 5.

And all that occurred in the first five minutes of the second half. The Nittany Lions had a 24-3 scoring edge after halftime in their 38-31 win over the Badgers.

The Gators countered by going 80 yards in 12 plays, but needed to overcome some obstacles along the way. The speedy Thompson broke multiple tackles and scampered 85 yards to the end zone to give the Gators a 10-3 lead at the half.

NEXT MAN UP: Before Monday, Iowa CB Josh Jackson hadn’t started a game since high school.