SportsDirect Inc. staff
Oct 11, 2014
Iowa 45, Indiana 29: Jake Rudock
threw for 210 yards and two touchdowns as the Hawkeyes held off the visiting Hoosiers in a wild game.
Damond Powell had three catches
for 85 yards and a score while Tevaun Smith had four receptions for
69 yards for Iowa (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten). Mark Weisman rushed 25 times
for 89 yards and a pair of scores for the Hawkeyes, who were 2-for-2
on fourth-down conversions.
Tevin Coleman rushed 15 times for
219 yards and three scores กช all of 45 yards or more กช for
Indiana (3-3, 0-2), which was hurt when starting quarterback Nate
Sudfeld went out with an injury in the second quarter. Sudfeld was
4-of-9 for 85 yards and a touchdown but his replacement, freshman
Chris Covington, was just 3-of-12 for 31 yards and two interceptions.
The Hawkeyes raced out to a quick
21-0 lead, with Rudock finding Jake Duzey on a 12-yard scoring
strike, Desmond King returning an interception 35 yards for a score
and Powell and Rudock hooking up on a 72-yard touchdown pass.
Indiana responded with an 83-yard run by Coleman to get on the board,
but on the next play from scrimmage, Jonathan Parker went 60 yards to
up the lead to 28-7 after one quarter.
Indiana pulled within seven when
Sudfeld found Nick Stoner on a 13-yard touchdown pass and Coleman added a 45-yard TD run, but Iowa pushed the lead to 38-21 by halftime on
Marshall Koehn's 22-yard field goal and Mark Weisman's 1-yard
touchdown run on fourth down on the final play of the second quarter.
The scoring slowed down in the second half, with Weisman's 1-yard
touchdown run early in the fourth putting the first points on the
board, and Coleman had the Hoosiers' final points on a 69-yard run
with just over 12 minutes to play.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The two teams
combined for 373 yards of total offense in the first quarter,
including four plays of more than 60 yards. กญ Coleman extended his
streaks of 100-yard rushing games (eight straight) and scoring a
touchdown (15). กญ Iowa won despite being outgained in total
offense, 432-426.