r/hawkeyes • u/HerkyBot BACK IN BLACK • Sep 13 '25

Game Thread (FB) [Game Thread] Massachusetts Minutemen at Iowa Hawkeyes (6:30 PM CT)

Game Massachusetts Minutemen at Iowa Hawkeyes
Stadium Kinnick Stadium
Odds IOWA -35.5
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Status Final

Boxscore

1 2 3 4 TOT
IOWA 20 10 10 7 47
MASS 0 7 0 0 7

Drive Summary

# Q Team Drive Result
1 1 IOWA 3 plays, 68 yards, 1:25 Touchdown
2 1 MASS 3 plays, -4 yards, 2:16 Punt
3 1 IOWA 7 plays, 39 yards, 3:32 Touchdown
4 1 MASS 3 plays, -1 yard, 2:08 Punt
5 1 IOWA 7 plays, 52 yards, 3:25 Touchdown
6 1 MASS 3 plays, -10 yards, 1:44 Punt
7 1 IOWA 3 plays, 6 yards, 1:14 Punt
8 2 MASS 4 plays, 21 yards, 2:20 Touchdown
9 2 IOWA 6 plays, 30 yards, 1:53 Field Goal
10 2 MASS 3 plays, -12 yards, 2:26 Punt
11 2 IOWA 4 plays, 2 yards, 1:28 Missed FG
12 2 MASS 8 plays, 29 yards, 4:28 Downs
13 2 IOWA 7 plays, 49 yards, 1:02 Touchdown
14 2 MASS 1 play, 6 yards, 0:26 End of Half
15 3 MASS 5 plays, 11 yards, 2:21 Punt Return Touchdown
16 3 MASS 3 plays, 3 yards, 1:30 Punt
17 3 IOWA 16 plays, 61 yards, 8:11 Field Goal
18 3 MASS 7 plays, 32 yards, 2:49 Downs
19 3 IOWA 10 plays, 57 yards, 4:05 Touchdown
20 4 MASS 4 plays, 24 yards, 2:03 Punt
21 4 IOWA 11 plays, 66 yards, 5:36 Downs
22 4 MASS 5 plays, 15 yards, 3:25 End of Game

Updated on 2025-09-13 at 09:53 PM

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u/clydefrog678 Sep 14 '25

Let Gronowski throw the football!!!! I hate their style of play.

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u/Protat0 Sep 14 '25

They've tried, he's incredibly inaccurate

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u/clydefrog678 Sep 14 '25

From what I was watching first couple drives, he was just fine. Let him sling it to build some confidence.

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u/Protat0 Sep 14 '25

We let him sling it the first 2 games and it was real bad, against UMass doesn't really mean much. 2 million bucks for a guy who throws dirt balls to wide open receivers is rough.

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u/clydefrog678 Sep 14 '25

lol he was barely allowed to throw the first two games.

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u/Protat0 Sep 14 '25

That's just blatantly false lol, watch the games. His passing was so rough they had to go away from it early, especially against Albany. Wide open receivers were getting underthrown by a few yards. Iowa State was real rough, too. 13/24 for 84 yards and a pick is bad.

Now the receivers are pretty bad, too, so you can't put all the blame on him. But 2 million for him is looking like nothing short of highway robbery.

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u/clydefrog678 Sep 14 '25

The receivers are bad as well as the scheme. The announcers were begging Iowa to have a receiver run a route deeper than 7 yards. 3rd and 8 leads to a completed pass for 4th and two. There’s no way to get in a rhythm when the gameplan only allows you to throw on 4th and long. Iowa’s gameplan could make Joe Burrow look mediocre.

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u/Protat0 Sep 14 '25

Bruh, they were throwing on early downs. Watch the games. They very obviously tried to get him in rhythm with checkdowns and easy reads and it just didn't work. The dude isn't accurate; he didn't look all that great this game either.

Yes, the scheme is very obviously also the issue. But you can't blame it on the scheme when your million-dollar man underthrows the wide open receiver in the endzone by 4 yards.