Iowa Buries Washington Early and Wins 41-24
Washington ran 25 times and gained negative three yards. Read that again. The Huskies had 320 passing yards and still lost by 17, because a ground game that nets less than zero does not give you much of a plan.
Iowa did its damage early. Caden Buhr kicked field goals of 51 and 27 yards, Kamari Moulton broke a 56-yard touchdown run with 0:10 left in the first quarter, and Jeremy Hecklinski threw touchdown passes of 20 and 24 yards to DJ Vonnahme in the second. That was 27-0 with 5:07 left in the half. Washington got a field goal before the break and trailed 27-3. The Hawkeyes never trailed and the game was never tied.
Washington did not quit. Elijah Brown hit Chris Lawson from 10 yards early in the third to make it 27-10, Hecklinski answered with an eight-yard touchdown to Reece Vander Zee, and Brown found Dezmen Roebuck from two yards (then threw the two-point try to Lawson) to cut it to 34-18 after three quarters. Moulton ended any comeback talk with a three-yard run at 12:06 of the fourth for 41-18. Brown got one more touchdown, to Mason James as time ran out, which made the score look closer than it was.
Iowa finished with 263 rushing yards on 38 carries, 465 total yards, no turnovers and six sacks. The Hawkeyes are 5-1, and Washington sits at 3-3.
If you had Moulton, you had a very good Saturday: 208 yards and two scores for 33.6 points. Brown's 26.6 from the losing side is no small thing either.