Iowa football is always going to be Iowa football. You know exactly what that looks like. Bad offense.
It doesn’t matter what the year is, who is playing quarterback, who is coaching, or what the weather is. None of it matters. If there’s an Iowa football game you better take the under.
We all witnessed peak Iowa football this Saturday against South Dakota State.
The Hawkeyes somehow won 7-3. To the naked eye, it looks like Iowa actually scored a touchdown. That’d be reasonable to assume. But it’d also be wrong.
Its defense somehow found a way to outscore its offense and South Dakota State in the same game without actually scoring a single touchdown.
Iowa’s offense wasn’t just stuck in the mud — it actually was the mud. The Hawkeyes gave us so many examples on this glorious Saturday. Just take a look.
South Dakota State shanked this punt right here and got it to the 22-yard line.
You hate to see it 😅 pic.twitter.com/bcg3QATPO7
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) September 3, 2022
It’s just 22 yards to go to goal. This is the red zone, basically. You’d think they’d score an easy touchdown here.
NOPE. Take a look at the scoring drive.
A special scoring drive for Iowa. pic.twitter.com/CrwW1Jm18Y
— PFF College (@PFF_College) September 3, 2022
Yikes. Don’t worry, folks. The defense came to the rescue. They managed actually to score…with a safety though.
SAFETY! 🙌@HawkeyeFootball now leads 5-3 thanks to Jack Campbell 👏 pic.twitter.com/ETzNLhx9fO
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) September 3, 2022
Thank goodness for Jack Campbell, who might be Iowa’s best offensive player right now.
The Hawkeyes did get themselves in scoring position one time later at the end of the 3rd quarter. But a fumble took it all away.
An absolutely sensation forced fumble by South Dakota State’s Adam Bock 🐇
Bock grew up going to Iowa games as a kid 🤯pic.twitter.com/p2aPoOFuQf
— The Transfer Portal CFB (@TPortalCFB) September 3, 2022
We were this close to having another 5-3 Iowa game for the second time in *checks watch* 42 years, but another safety from the defense saved the day.
And with that, the Hawkeyes’ defense officially outscored both its own offense and the opponent.
Y’all already know the jokes were flying in from across the internet. Rightfully so. This was comically bad.
IT IS 5-3 IN IOWA CITY FREEZE IT FRAME IT
— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) September 3, 2022
This should go on a plaque in the Iowa locker room and players should have to slap it before every game pic.twitter.com/TnsGSOTFjk
— Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) September 3, 2022
Iowa football: pic.twitter.com/PH23W8zBck
— Less Chat, More Hat (@Frustrated_Fan) September 3, 2022
Iowa football fandom is a pretty good gig, I think. Great game day atmosphere. Team is competitive every year. But I think my head would explode watching this offense year after year and realizing that the head coach's kid will prevent it from improving for the foreseeable future
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) September 3, 2022
Me watching the Iowa offense in the first half. pic.twitter.com/9StVlV55kD
— Phil MC (@phil33mc) September 3, 2022
Iowa football is back!! pic.twitter.com/R9lJn3uhRq
— PFF College (@PFF_College) September 3, 2022
Someone told me Iowa–South Dakota St. was a two point game so I turned it on and….they really buried the lede here https://t.co/t4zF6FwVFx
— Marcel Louis-Jacques (@Marcel_LJ) September 3, 2022
I appreciate App State and ECU working to ensure that I don't have to flip back to SDSU-Iowa for a while.
— Bill Connelly (@ESPN_BillC) September 3, 2022
Many have asked and @ESPNStatsInfo can track down just about anything, but can definitively say #Iowa is the first team to score 7 points without a touchdown since at least 2000.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) September 3, 2022
Iowa showing off its renovated offense. pic.twitter.com/P71uHl6k2H
— Adam Kramer (@KegsnEggs) September 3, 2022
Every time Iowa's offense takes the field: pic.twitter.com/LTuHKXIu33
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) September 3, 2022
Iowa beating an FCS team with exactly seven points and zero touchdowns is the Sistine Chapel of Kirk Ferentz football
— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) September 3, 2022
Ahhhh. Missed you, college football.
