This was a game of ups and downs and the game that could save Iowa's season. For Ohio State a victory would give them an opportunity to win the Big Ten. Iowa scored early with a big play to Marvin McNutt. They would trade punts for plenty of the 1st half. They went into the halftime with a 7-3 for Iowa.
Midway through the 3rd Pryor connected with Reid Fragel for a 5 yard touchdown pass. Iowa would add a FG in the 3rd resulting in a 10-10 tie going into the 4th. The 4th quarter was the most impactful and Iowa scored in it early after an interception of Terrelle Pryor that was capped off with a 1 yard touchdown run by Marcus Coker.
With the score at 17-10 and OSU needing to respond the offense was flat but still managed to put a FG on the board to make the score 17-13. After a punt by Iowa, Ohio State was in need of a score and would put the ball in the hands of their QB. The play of the game was done by DeVier Posey on a 50 yard pass that would have resulted in 6 but was dropped. The reason this was the play of game has to do with clock management. With that drop Ohio State was able to drain the clock down as well as force Iowa to use their timeouts. Pryor was responsible for 50 yards of offense and the reason the Buckeyes were able to score the go ahead touchdown after a 24 yard strike to Sanzenbacher to put the ball on the one. Boom Heron punched it in to get the lead. Iowa’s got the ball back with just over a minute remaining. The Hawkeyes were looking at 3rd and long and Cameron Heyward sacked Rickey Stanzi to force a 4th and 21 and Iowa wouldn't convert. With a Buckeye victory they moved to 10-1 and Iowa moved to 7-4.
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