I was surprised Vandenberg didn't play myself. This whole game seemed out of character for Iowa coaches (not a critique just an observation). The time outs at the end of the half when they were up 30, leaving a bunch of the starters in, the trick plays and it looked like they were going for the blocked punt to end the game (although to be honest I wasn't paying that close attention at that point).
It's like the entire Michigan State team banged our coaches wives or somthing.
On the other hand, Michigan State has been a second half team all year, they came back from 17 last week and they have the comeback reputation because of the 35 point comeback from a few years ago (not that that should have any effect on preparing for this team but creating that reputation is going to have an impact on a coaches thinking you'd have to think) so we probably wanted to get up by as much as possible to not allow a comeback.