Instant Iowa: Buckeyes Hand Hawkeyes First Loss

Last week, Todd, a lot of issues and mistakes were erased by that 91-yard drive to go down and beat Michigan.

Hassel and I even said it on the show last week, throw out everything we thought about that game, all the notes we had taken on that game, because ultimately you win the game and all that goes away.

This is a day where those errors and issues are hard to run away from.

Yeah, and especially the way the game started, because if they were going to have any chance to win that game, they needed to play pretty much flawless and to have the start that they did and to still be there at halftime with a little bit of optimism.

Unfortunately, the second half didn't turn out the way that Hawk fans wanted it to, but that was a very good Ohio State team, and I think Do we learn anything more about Iowa today? I don't know.

I don't know either.

I think we're going to learn a lot about them six days from now in Seattle when they go to Washington on a short week.

We'll hopefully learn a lot here in the postgame or shortly thereafter about some of these injuries.

Hank Brown left with an apparent injury.

Now, Did he get pulled because he wasn't playing real well and they just wanted to see what Jeremy Kalinske had? We saw Zach Luttmer suffer an injury.

We saw Deshaun Lee go out of the game with an injury.

So those are some big name guys that you're counting on moving forward in a short week and a big trip out west.

So we'll cover all of that as we move ahead.

But you talk about how...

The end of the first half, I mean, when it was 10-6, again, after you gifted Ohio State essentially a touchdown on the first two minutes of the game, you received the ball, you're down by seven within two minutes.

A bad decision by Hank Brown to not find a way to get rid of that ball, obviously, and then you give Ohio State the ball inside the 20-yard line, you're giving up a touchdown.

Most of them.

But Iowa able to hang in there, put up a couple of field goals.

It's 10-6.

You're feeling pretty good driving down the field.

Again, it feels like, hey, if we get into field goal range here and it's 10-9 at halftime, you feel damn good about that.

Instead, an illegal formation, which is one of these uncharacteristic penalties typically for Iowa that we've seen haunt them over and over.

And again, as I said last week, a lot of these – A lot of these mistakes were erased by that final, but you remember the false start on that final drive felt like a drive killer at that time.

I mean, these things that Iowa typically doesn't do have continuously haunted this year's team, and we saw that at the end of the first half.

You stall, and then you allow Ohio State to go down, put it in the end zone, and all of a sudden, 17-6 at half feels a hell of a lot different than 10-6 at half.