hawkinn3
Well-Known Member
Starting with the 2015 Big Ten Championship Game the Hawkeyes have been unable to win a big game. 12 game season so they’re all big but the key games are always against the good west teams or when a win gets you a championship.
2015 BIG Game vs MSU: Turnovers in the endzone and an excruciating drive all the way down the field by MSU to slowly put a knife in our hearts to end the game.
2016 vs Wisconsin: We lost 17-9 against a 2 conference loss Wisconsin team that if we beat them, we would have won the division. This isn’t revisionist thinking, everyone knew it when the game was played, winner takes the West. At home Iowa played a putrid offensive game capped by Kirk going for a FG down 14-6 late in the 4th on 4th and 5 from the badger 20.
2017, Wisconsin cruised to 9-0 and the West and we were out of the race when they crushed us in November but we started the conference schedule with two close losses.
2017 vs PSU: Penn State drives the length the field in 1:42 and McSorley throws a TD on the last play of the game in Kinnick.
2017 vs MSU: Iowa hold MSU to 3 points after the first quarter and still loses 17-10.
That was all she wrote for the Hawks in 2017, two very winnable games we just let slide away.
2018, I don’t need to recap these but Wisconsin, Penn State and Purdue. All winnable and we held 4th quarter leads against Wisconsin and Purdue and still lost.
2015 BIG Game vs MSU: Turnovers in the endzone and an excruciating drive all the way down the field by MSU to slowly put a knife in our hearts to end the game.
2016 vs Wisconsin: We lost 17-9 against a 2 conference loss Wisconsin team that if we beat them, we would have won the division. This isn’t revisionist thinking, everyone knew it when the game was played, winner takes the West. At home Iowa played a putrid offensive game capped by Kirk going for a FG down 14-6 late in the 4th on 4th and 5 from the badger 20.
2017, Wisconsin cruised to 9-0 and the West and we were out of the race when they crushed us in November but we started the conference schedule with two close losses.
2017 vs PSU: Penn State drives the length the field in 1:42 and McSorley throws a TD on the last play of the game in Kinnick.
2017 vs MSU: Iowa hold MSU to 3 points after the first quarter and still loses 17-10.
That was all she wrote for the Hawks in 2017, two very winnable games we just let slide away.
2018, I don’t need to recap these but Wisconsin, Penn State and Purdue. All winnable and we held 4th quarter leads against Wisconsin and Purdue and still lost.
