Hawkeyes In Big Ten Title Game With 40-20 Win, Huskers Next
Purdue Boilermakers recorded 222.8 passing yards and 140.9 rushing yards while allowed 251.6 passing yards and 184.0 russhing yards with turnover differential of 0.3. The Hawkeyes can win the West outright with a win at Nebraska next week or a Wisconsin loss (vs. Northwester, at Minnesota).
ESPN2, STREAM Purdue Iowa live football Game Free Online Tv score radio Kick off time. The biggest question coming out of the game, aside from their kicker missing a pair of extra points, is how much, if at all, the playoff committee will hold their mid-game lapse against the Hawkeyes. Nobody cared about beating 7-6 Iowa, at least not for reasons greater than the usual “winning football games is good” ones.
The stadium experience began Saturday for Canzeri by touching the Nile Kinnick statue, then seeing his parents Brian and Regina, who suffers from the autoimmune disease Lupus, at midfield before the game. If Purdue goes for the first down and doesn’t make it, the game is probably over.
Iowa scored in all four quarters for the seventh time this season.
Jake Rudock threw for 256 yards and two touchdowns Saturday at State College, Pa., as No. 14 MI beat Penn State, 28-16.
Kip Patton’s 15-yard touchdown run on a jet sweep, the first touchdown of the tight end’s career, gave the Owls a little breathing room at 24-12 on the first play of the fourth quarter. LeShun Daniels had two rushing TDs and Matt Vandeberg scored to give the Hawkeyes a 20-0 lead. They’ve gone through a few of the lowest lows with that abysmal 2012 season.
The undefeated Hawkeyes are up to No. 3 in the AP poll, one of five Big Ten teams ranked in the latest rankings, released Sunday. Ten of King’s 11 stops were solo tackles. Jordan Westerkamp and Brandon Reilly have combined for 1,499 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns while Alonzo Moore has 21 receptions. All four catches resulted in a first down, and his last eight catches have resulted in a first down.
“Coach (Kirk) Ferentz talks all the time about the need for seniors in our program to play like seniors and we’re seeing that happen this year, ” offensive guard Jordan Walsh said. Ohio State can still make the Big Ten title game with a win over MI and a MI State loss.
Before kickoff, Iowa City received nine inches of snow and plows were needed to clear the playing field Saturday morning.
Purdue won the toss and elected to receive.
It was nice to see Wadley get a little bit of run – four carries, 23 yards – after he sat out last week’s 40-35 win over Minnesota for precautionary reasons after he sprained an ankle.
Next up for Iowa is a date on the road Friday with the rival Cornhuskers, a game that now means almost nothing in the league standings but everything as far as the playoffs are concerned.