LINCOLN, Neb. – Cutting to the chase: There’s no way to sugarcoat Iowa’s loss on Saturday to Nebraska. Three-wins-in-the-Big Ten Nebraska. Average-conference-loss-by-15 points Nebraska. RPI-of-106 Nebraska. Trailed-by-19 Nebraska. Even if someone wanted to make the pill a bit sweeter to swallow, where would a person locate enough sucrose to coat all the rough and tattered [...]
A quick look back at Iowa’s loss to Nebraska.
Marcus Coker is now No. 4 on the Iowa single-season rushing list.
The linebacker and receiver talk about the Hawkeyes’ 20-7 loss against Nebraska during postgame interviews.
LINCOLN, Neb. – Black Friday turned into black-and-blue Friday for the Hawkeyes, who were pushed, shoved and left broken in the first-ever Heroes Game at Memorial Stadium. No. 22 Nebraska beat Iowa 20-7 in the inaugural game as Big Ten rivals. “It was a Big Ten football game; physical on both sides of the ball,” [...]
Lincoln, Neb. — Iowa’s defense figured out how to stop Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead on his 38th carry of the game Friday. It was the other 37 that caused the problem. Nebraska’s bruising running back started the week with his foot in a boot, sitting out Monday’s practice. Burkhead finished the week with a [...]
LINCOLN, Neb. – Broderick Binns looked forward to getting on the field for the first time at Memorial Stadium. It was his inability to get off of it that ultimately doomed the Iowa Hawkeyes. Nebraska controlled the ball and the clock, wearing down Iowa’s defense and keeping the ball out of the Hawkeyes’ hands on [...]
Lincoln, Neb. – Look at it this way, Iowa fans who might be frustrated after Black Friday’s loss in the inaugural Big Ten Conference football game against newbie Nebraska: The search party has more than a month to locate Iowa’s offensive mojo. It’s obviously too late to do anything about what happened during the 20-7 [...]
