Re-do one play in Iowa FB history

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Niemo

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If you could re-do one play in a Hawkeye game, where and when would you use your mulligan?

Imagine Stanzi's naked bootleg against NW but getting a second chance to change that play?!

Yours?
 
B1G Championship. Without question. Bad angle at one tackle, or seemingly losing a TD pass in the lights. Either play significantly would have changed Iowa footballl going forward. Getting in hte CFP in tear two, even if we got blown out, would have been huge in terms of exposure.
 
good stuff above.

I used to scream and throw chairs when Matt Sherman over threw open receivers. Once against #1 OSU would have put the hawks in the lead.

Put ya, the fake punt against Wisconsin is #1

That game in the B1G championship was a 3rd down...so who knows what happens if they held there
 
Fake punt might be my most memorable play. Ugh. Still can't believe we didn't defend that.

Would love to have a play back for Sherman at the Big House. We about knocked off the eventually natty champs.

And in 2010, we had osu beat if we could have just stopped them on 4th down.
 
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First, I LOVE the topic! My answer might be a bit unorthodox, but in 2002, I would have Illinois make their game-winning field goal at the end of regulation against Ohio State. Instead of being ranked 3rd behind Miami and OSU, Iowa and Miami would have been ranked 1 and 2 and would have played for the BCS National Championship. There was a play the week before vs. Purdue and the week after vs. Michigan that would have helped as well. Any one of them would be my pick.
 
Yeah, I think Harry Turtledove is currently working on an epic length alternative history series about B1G 10 football assuming that a fumble bounces a different way and Ferentz goes to Jacksonville back in 2004.
 
I would have to go with Conner Cook's run for a 4th down conversion in the Big Ten CCG in 2015. MSU was trailing Iowa 13-9 with less than 2 minutes left. If Iowa makes that stop, it was late enough in the game it would almost certainly result in a Iowa victory and Iowa almost certainly would make the playoffs.

Any other play is less certain what the final outcome would be. If Banks does not fumble a 2nd time against ISU in 2002, would Iowa still go 8-0 in the BigTen? I don't know.

If stanzi does not get hurt against NW in 2009, would Iowa go on to beat NW and OSU? I don't know.
 
99topdawg said:
First, I LOVE the topic! My answer might be a bit unorthodox, but in 2002, I would have Illinois make their game-winning field goal at the end of regulation against Ohio State. Instead of being ranked 3rd behind Miami and OSU, Iowa and Miami would have been ranked 1 and 2 and would have played for the BCS National Championship. There was a play the week before vs. Purdue and the week after vs. Michigan that would have helped as well. Any one of them would be my pick.
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Wasn't it the Purdue game where they threw a deep touchdown on 4th and 2?
 
guffus said:
I would have to go with Conner Cook's run for a 4th down conversion in the Big Ten CCG in 2015. MSU was trailing Iowa 13-9 with less than 2 minutes left. If Iowa makes that stop, it was late enough in the game it would almost certainly result in a Iowa victory and Iowa almost certainly would make the playoffs.

Any other play is less certain what the final outcome would be. If Banks does not fumble a 2nd time against ISU in 2002, would Iowa still go 8-0 in the BigTen? I don't know.

If stanzi does not get hurt against NW in 2009, would Iowa go on to beat NW and OSU? I don't know.
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I would pick that play for us. But honestly the best thinking is changing the outcome of OSU in '02. Our team was good enough to actually win a championship that year too, unlike '15.
 
B1G Championship game. 3rd & goal, first half. CJ goes for Kittle who gets smoked in the head, MSU interception. Clear targeting violation according to the rules but refs swallow their whistles. In the redo, Kittle flops around like a soccer player after the hit and the refs call targeting. Iowa scores and is up 13-3.

My runner-up is 2008 Northwestern

There was about a minute left in the first half. Iowa up 17-3 and had just held on a 3rd down play and northwestern was going to punt from around their 25 yard line.

Northwestern punts, Brodell fields it and tries to make a play & fumbles. Northwestern recovers & scores a TD right before half. Completely changed the momentum of the game and Iowa loses a close game and a young team in need of a win doesn't get one.
 
Good stuff here. But like any mulligan, the same result could happen. Connor Cook and Msu could still convert but if you go back a few plays when they converted a third and long...maybe that's the right answer.

And 2010...what a painful year. To have one play back in every loss could have made a huge difference. But should have, could have, would have...
 
fake punt

pick one, hasn't there been at least a half-dozen over the years where 60,000 people were present and 59,999 of them could see it coming.
 
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Big Ten CCG: The throw Tevaun Smith lost in the lights or the illegal hit by Bullough in the end zone on Kittle.

If TS catches that pass game over. Despite the illegal hit Kittle still should have caught the ball, if it just didn't have the weird bounce that led to the interception. The ball falls to the ground like normal Iowa at least gets 3 points out of that.
 
guffus said:
Any other play is less certain what the final outcome would be. If Banks does not fumble a 2nd time against ISU in 2002, would Iowa still go 8-0 in the BigTen? I don't know.
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I'll do you one better. What if banks doesn't tape his wrist pre game so that doesn't lead to him having a numb throwing hand. Iowa beats ISU, likely steamrolls them. Iowa is undefeated and #2 in the nation. O$U's squeeker win against Michigan one week before means they're 3rd because Iowa kicked the dog feces out of michigan. Iowa v. Miami for the national title.
 
guffus said:
Any other play is less certain what the final outcome would be. If Banks does not fumble a 2nd time against ISU in 2002, would Iowa still go 8-0 in the BigTen? I don't know.
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This game was my first thought. The reason I didn't choose it was, assume Iowa does still go 8-0 in the Big Ten. OSU and Miami still go undefeated and probably match up in the BCS title game, leaving Iowa to play USC in the Orange Bowl. Can't see 2 conference teams playing in the title game, and can't see Iowa getting picked over OSU, even though OSU stumbled to the finish line and Iowa played great at the end of the season. If Iowa gets picked over OSU, then I go with that.
 
'10 MSU: Is that season different if KF pulls A-rob out of the MSU blowout? Iowa was 7-2 at the time and averaging nearly 30 points a game.

'09 OSU: If Stross catches half of those drops does Iowa win?

'09 NW: A missed blocking assignment by the TE or fullback didn't happen Iowa ends the regular season at worst with 1 loss.
 
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