Iowa trounces North Texas 62-16

Today’s game has an afternoon start time and airs on a niche TV channel as well as being made available as a live stream online option.

Ferentz ultimately led his team to a 62-16 win over McCarney’s squad, which tied for the most points scored by Iowa under him since 2002 against Northwestern. Canzeri ran all over the struggling Mean Green team in the opening two quarters, accumulating 74 yards on top of those three touchdowns.

A 4-0 September would be nice, so finish off the month strong, Iowa.

Canzeri scored his fourth touchdown with 45 seconds left in the third quarter, and linebacker Josey Jewell returned an interception 34 yards for a score on North Texas’ ensuing possession to put the Hawkeyes in complete control heading into the fourth quarter.

Tevaun Smith added 115 yards receiving and Desmond King had 180 yards on punt and kick returns for the surging Hawkeyes, who enter Big Ten play unblemished for the first time since 2009. The Hawkeyes led North Texas 35-13 at halftime. The running back was able to score a second touchdown a couple of drives later, as he ran another one in from 10 yards out.

Iowa’s defense had some issues with the Mean Green rushing attack, allowing 183 yards.

McCarney, who was born in Iowa City, played at Iowa and worked alongside Ferentz under legendary Hawkeyes coach Hayden Fry, will make his first appearance in Kinnick Stadium since 2006 – his last season in charge of the Cyclones. “He’s doing a great job”. Iowa is getting healthy, too, as defensive end Drew Ott, running back LeShun Daniels and tight end Jake Duzey near a return to full speed. As we have said in many different posts in a few different ways, they are a bad football team. “This is the last game of our non-Big Ten portion of our schedule, and it’s a really important game for us that way”, Ferentz said.