Hawkeyes’ website mistakenly said Iowa won Rose Bowl

That would suggest, basically, that Iowa got lucky.

Amid the collections from his college football career, including newspaper articles, posters and even a heartfelt drawing presented to Don by his late wife of 45 years, Marilyn.

Stanford showed why it finished just outside the final four in the College Football Playoff and romped to a 45-16 victory over Iowa in the Rose Bowl on Friday.

Anyone tempted to dismiss Iowa? They booked a party room for dozens of people, but with Stanford’s strong lead, they say it wasn’t as much of a party atmosphere they thought or hoped they would have.

Christian McCaffrey raced 75 yards into the end zone on Stanford’s opening drive not long after Iowa’s players charged onto the field and revved up the black-and-gold-clad fans in the north end zone.

And Blythe bought every word of his coach’s message to the team.

“Starting off so slow, with a subpar performance at Northwestern – and give Northwestern a lot of credit, they played better than we did that day”, Shaw said. “I shouldn’t take it for granted”. But someone might want to share with the band that California has over 5 million cattle, while Iowa had 3.9 million, according to the January 2015 cattle inventory.

It does, however, factor heavily into the definition of the Hawkeyes as a program that struggles to compete on the big stage.

Dubbed “The Granddaddy of Them All”, as the original bowl game that began in 1902, the Rose Bowl is the most traditional of bowl games. Hogan appeared to fake a fumbled handoff to McCaffrey in the second quarter before popping up and throwing to an untouched Michael Rector for a 31-yard score, making it 35-0 at halftime. Last year, it trailed Tennessee 35-7 at halftime of the TaxSlayer Bowl.

Notre Dame, shut out in the first quarter for the first time this season, scored on Adams’ 3-yard touchdown run halfway through the second period.

And maybe a little bit of laziness and ignorance on the part of the voters, a sufficient amount of whom never bothered to educate themselves about the kid everybody on the West Coast was raving about.

The Cardinal finished with 12 victories for the third time in six years. This group is the product of the masterful touch of Ferentz and his staff to empower a group of players to gain confidence and outperform expectations over 12 months. Beathard said. “Stanford played very well, and we didn’t”. “I play for my teammates”.

Christian McCaffrey had an outstanding sophomore season, one that earned him second place in the voting for the Heisman Trophy.

McCaffrey set a record for most all-purpose yards in Rose Bowl history with 368.

It was the beginning of a spectacular afternoon for McCaffrey, who emphatically stated his case as the hands-down, no question, beyond obviously best football player in America by rushing for 172 yards and adding 105 and 91 receiving and return yards.

Beathard was sacked seven times.

Davenport resident Jacob O’Rourke says he and his friends are big Iowa fans.

It was a storybook end to the season for David Shaw’s team, a ideal send-off for the Cardinal’s senior class and yet another chapter in the tale of the Stanford football powerhouse.

“So, you know, it’s just a real credit to him”, Ferentz said. Iowa “won”, 287 to 277. Then they identified various areas that required immediate improvement. “He’s one heck of a football player”. But not Friday, not against McCaffrey and the Stanford defense.

“We’ve had so many games like that this year, ” McCaffrey said.

After a while, the Hawkeyes missed McCaffrey when he was standing still.

“We knew he was good, but he was better in person than he was on tape”, linebacker Josey Jewell said. “That’s what great players do”. He might be transcendent before he’s done at Stanford. Iowa vs. Notre Dame could’ve been a great game.