Iowa outscored the Cyclones 21-0 in the second half and improves to 41-22 all-time against Iowa State.
Iowa regained possession of the Cy-Hawk Trophy and leads the 2015 Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series, 7-0, following wins in soccer, volleyball, and football. Saturday is the first of four trophy games on Iowa’s 2015 schedule: Iowa State (Cy-Hawk), Minnesota (Floyd of Rosedale), Wisconsin (Heartland), and Nebraska (Heroes). Only Minnesota visits Iowa City.
The visiting team has won the last four meetings in the Cy-Hawk Series. Today’s score marked the first time in five years the game wasn’t decided by one possession.
The Iowa defense allowed 66 yards on 31 plays in the second half after allowing 244 yards on 31 plays in the first half.
The Hawkeyes converted 5-of-7 third downs in the second half, and 2-of-7 third downs in the first half.
Iowa QB C.J. Beathard improved to 3-0 in his career as a starter. He is 1-0 at home, and 2-0 on the road (Purdue, 2014; Iowa State, 2015). He was 15-of-25 for 215 yards passing and a career high three touchdown. He rushed 10 times for 77 yards. The 10 rushing attempts was a career high.
Iowa RB Jordan Canzeri career a career-high 24 times for 124 yards and a touchdown. He scored from eight yards on Iowa’s final scoring drive. It was his fourth career rushing touchdown and second this season. Canzeri had had over 100 all-purpose yards for the second straight week. He had 143 total yards against Iowa State (124 rushing and 19 receiving).
Iowa WR Riley McCarron’s first catch of the season was a 25-yard, eventual game-winning touchdown. It was his first career touchdown.
Iowa DE Drew Ott left the game with three minutes left in the first quarter and did not return.
Iowa RB LeShun Daniels left the game in the second quarter and did not return.
Iowa K Marshall Koehn has connected on five consecutive field goal attempts over the last five games. Koehn is 5-of-6 in his career on field goals 40-plus yards.
Iowa DB Desmond King returned a punt 37 yards (career long) to set up Iowa’s go-ahead touchdown drive. On Iowa State’s ensuring possession, King intercepted a pass (first this season, fourth of career) to set up another Hawkeye touchdown. King added five tackles on defense.
After the game, Iowa State head coach Paul Rhoads said “Tale of two halves, first half we played extremely well in my opinion, we made a few plays, second half we didn’t and they played extremely well. Congratulations to the University of Iowa for winning that football game.”
After the game, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said “Today’s victory is a rewarding end to a very difficult and challenging week for everybody. On top of that, an important chapter for our football team. I told the football team last night that we were going to have to earn this. This is a very tough environment, tough football team, a well-coached football team and I’m really proud of our guys the way they hung in there.”
