Illinois 27 Iowa 24
Iowa lost a heart breaker game last weekend to Illinois after making a comeback. Iowa was trailing in the 4th period 24 – 9 when they started on their comeback. Iowa hit a Td in the beginning of the 4th to get the score to 24 – 16. Then Iowa hit another TD in the last 3 minutes of the game to bring to total to 24 – 22. Iowa went for a 2 point conversion and got it to make the score 24 – 24. On last drive of the game for Illinois, they brought the ball into FG range and made a 44 yard FG with about 30 seconds left in the game. Iowa tried to make up a lot of ground by throwing long passes. With 9 seconds left in the game Illinois Intercepted a pass from Ricky Stanzi to seal the win for Illinois. Greene ran for over 100 yards for the 9th straight game and had a score against Illinois. Greene will have a challenge this weekend to make it 10 straight games with the Penn State with one of the top ranked Run Defenses in the nation.

Iowa drops to 2 – 3 in the Big Ten and 5 – 4 Overall.

They are still 1 game from being bowl eligible. Iowa hosts the 3rd ranked Penn State team that is undefeated at home this weekend with another change to become bowl eligible the following week when a struggling Purdue team comes to Kinnick. Iowa then travels to Minnesota for their last regular game of the season. Last year Iowa lost the change to go to a bowl game by losing their last game of the season. Let hope the close losses this season doesn’t come back to haunt the Hawkeyes.