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Iowa Hawkeyes football
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The Iowa Hawkeyes football team represents the University of Iowa in college football. The Hawkeyes compete in the West division of the Big Ten Conference and they have been a member of the Big Ten since 1899, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the NCAA. The Hawkeyes play their games in Iowa City, Iowa at Kinnick Stadium. The Hawkeyes are currently coached by Kirk Ferentz, who is in his 18th season as the coach and is also tied for the longest current tenured coach in NCAA Division I FBS. In 1899, Iowa completed its first undefeated season, which led to an invitation to join the Western Conference. In 1900, the Hawkeyes secured another undefeated season and won a share of the Western Conference title in their first year of league play, in 1907 Iowa helped form the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. They participated in football in the new league for four seasons, Iowa tied with Nebraska in 1907 for the league championship in its first season of competition. They would leave the conference after the 1910 football season and return to the Big Ten, Iowa claimed consecutive Big Ten titles in 1921 and 1922. The Hawkeyes won 20 straight games in the early 1920s under the guidance of Hall of Fame coach Howard Jones, Jones soon left Iowa and established a powerhouse at Southern California, and the Hawkeyes were abysmal for most of the 1930s. Iowa was expelled from the Big Ten on May 25,1929, the reasons were officially unstated and university president William Jessup professed not to know why the faculty committee voted to expel the university. Discussions of player compensation and Iowas inaction on alleged ethics violation appear to have been a main cause, following the 1929 season, the Big Ten faculty committee unanimously voted to reinstate Iowa to the conference on February 1,1930. On December 11,1929, Iowa had disqualified 27 players, presumably due to compensation issues, as a result, little was expected of Iowa’s 1939 team, led by new coach Eddie Anderson. Nicknamed the “Ironmen”, the 1939 Hawkeyes scored several upset victories, though Iowa fell a game short of the Big Ten title, team MVP Nile Kinnick won almost every major national award, including the 1939 Heisman Trophy. Forest Evashevski was hired as Iowa’s head coach in 1952 and he lured Calvin Jones to Iowa, where Jones became the first Hawkeye – and the first African-American – to win the Outland Trophy in 1955. From 1956 to 1960, Evashevski led Iowa to four finishes in the top five of the national rankings, after the 1960 season, Evashevski left coaching to become Iowa’s athletic director. The forgotten season In 1960 the Hawkeyes held on to the #1 ranking for much of the season, the Hawkeyes defeated #8 Ohio State, #15 Michigan State, and #10 Purdue. Iowa lost to rival #3 Minnesota, the game was the only loss of the year for the 1960 Hawkeyes and they shared the Big Ten title with Minnesota. However, at time, the Big Ten did not allow their teams to go to any bowl except for the Rose Bowl
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2009 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
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The 2009 Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by second year head coach Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Grant Field in Atlanta. The Yellow Jackets would be invited to the Fedex Orange Bowl where they lost 24–14 to Iowa, the Jackets ended a 13-game losing streak against Florida State with a 31–28 win in Atlanta, and ended a seven-game losing streak to rival Georgia by 45–42 in Athens. Tech finished the season ranked 22 in the AP and the USA Today Coaches Poll, Johnson was named ACC Coach of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Conference Media Association and 2008 National Coach of the Year by CBSSports. com. Tech adds Louisville transfer Anthony Allen to the backfield, on defense, Tech returns eight of eleven starters including All-ACC players Morgan Burnett and Derrick Morgan. Tech returns nineteen starters to a squad that defeated three ranked teams in 2008, Johnson signed a recruiting class of 21 players. Pregame Line, Off the Board GT vs. Jacksonville State Gamecocks Georgia Tech rushed for nearly 300 yards behind Jonathan Dwyers 96 yards on just 7 carries. On the first play of the season, the former ACC Player of the Year took a Josh Nesbitt pitch 74 yards down the sideline for a touchdown, Dwyer was untouched on the carry. The B-Back, Techs feature back in the offense, carried the six more times in the game. Josh Nesbitt connected on a touchdown with Anthony Allen, in Techs home opener, Demaryius BayBay Thomas posted a 100-yard receiving performance, catching the ball four times for 101 yards. All-American candidate Morgan Burnett listed an interception, his first of 2009, Coach Johnson earned his 10th win at Georgia Tech. Pregame Line, Clemson +5.5 GT vs. Clemson Tigers Georgia Tech earned a second half scare by Clemson, however, Scott Blair connected on three field goals for the Yellow Jackets to seal the win. Tech scored on three plays in the first half, Louisville transfer Anthony Allen took a Josh Nesbitt pitch 82 yards down the sideline to score Techs first touchdown on its opening possession. Jerrard Tarrant returned a punt 65 yards to increase the Tech lead to 14–0, following a Scott Blair field goal, Tech on its ensuing possession marched the ball downfield only to have itself stopped. While Tech led 24–7 at the half, the Tech defense gave up 27 unanswered points, Clemson took the lead 27–24 in the 4th quarter. Tech, who was 0–9 on third down attempts early in the 4th, Anthony Allen ran for 127 yards on 5 carries,25.4 yards per carry. The Tech Defense intercepted Kyle Parker twice, Pregame Line, Miami –4.5 GT at Miami Hurricanes Georgia Tech traveled to Land Shark Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida to compete against the University of Miami. Offensive Coordinator Mark Whipple and Miami Quarterback Jacory Harris prepared a plan against Dave Wommack
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Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference includes the public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H, in 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association. Big Ten member institutions are predominantly major flagship research universities with large financial endowments, large student enrollment is also a hallmark of Big Ten universities, as 12 of the 14 members feature enrollments of 30,000 or more students. Northwestern University, one of just two members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students, is the lone private university among Big Ten membership. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni, Big Ten universities engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year. Big Ten universities are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In 2014–2015, members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditures, Johns Hopkins University was invited in 2012 to join the Big Ten as an associate member participating in mens lacrosse only. In 2015, it was accepted as an associate member in womens lacrosse. Notre Dame is scheduled to join the Big Ten in 2017 as a member in mens ice hockey. Notes Notes Notes The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference, lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it. Full members Full members Sport Affiliate Other Conference Other Conference The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 mens and 14 womens NCAA sanctioned sports, Notes, * Notre Dame will join the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in mens ice hockey. It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent, ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in mens lacrosse, with womens lacrosse to follow in 2016. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams,2, Mens rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Mens Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008,3, Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. 4, Rifle is technically a mens sport, but mens, womens, Ohio State fields a coed team. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a meeting on February 8,1896
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Kirk Ferentz
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Kirk James Ferentz is the head football coach at the University of Iowa, a position he has held since the 1999 season. From 1990 to 1992, Ferentz was the football coach at the University of Maine. He has also served as an assistant coach with the Cleveland Browns, Ferentz played college football as a linebacker at the University of Connecticut from 1974 to 1976. After playing football at Upper St. Clair High School near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and he was a football captain and an academic all-Yankee Conference linebacker at Connecticut. He served as a student assistant at Connecticut in 1977 and graduated in 1978, Ferentz spent his next two seasons as defensive coordinator at Worcester Academy, where he taught English literature. He then spent one season in 1980 as an assistant offensive line coach at the University of Pittsburgh and that Panther team, coached by Jackie Sherrill, finished with an 11–1 record and a number two national ranking. Ferentz was the line coach at The University of Iowa under Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry for nine seasons. Eleven Hawkeyes coached by Ferentz went on to play in the NFL, three of them were first round picks in the NFL draft, and five of his players were first team All-Big Ten selections. Six of those players played over 100 games in the NFL, OG Ron Hallstrom, OG Mark Bortz, OT Brett Miller, C Joel Hilgenberg, OT John Alt, OG Mike Haight played in 63 games as well. Ferentz left Iowa to coach at the University of Maine in 1990, after three seasons of coaching the Black Bears to a combined 12–21 record, he was named the offensive line coach of the NFLs Cleveland Browns. Ferentz served under Bill Belichick in Cleveland and followed the franchise to Baltimore when they became the Baltimore Ravens, on December 2,1998, Ferentz was hired as Iowas 26th head football coach to replace the retiring Hayden Fry. The team struggled during Ferentzs first two seasons with a combined 4–19 record, but the Hawkeyes earned their first bowl bid of the Ferentz era after a 7–5 season in 2001 and they beat Texas Tech in the Alamo Bowl, 19–16. The 2002 season would prove to be memorable for Ferentz and the Hawkeyes, the team finished the regular season with an 11–1 record, its only loss coming to Iowa State. They shared the Big Ten Conference championship with Ohio State, as both teams finished 8–0 in conference play, quarterback Brad Banks won the Davey OBrien Award for best quarterback and finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting to Carson Palmer of USC. Tight end Dallas Clark was that seasons John Mackey Award winner, Ferentz was named Coach of the Year by the Associated Press for his efforts. Iowa received its first-ever BCS invitation, losing to USC in the 2003 Orange Bowl, despite losing several seniors to graduation, the Hawkeyes compiled a 9–3 regular season record in 2003. They defeated Florida 37–17 in the Outback Bowl on January 1,2004 and this earned the Hawkeyes a #8 national ranking in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll at the end of the season. Offensive tackle Robert Gallery was that seasons Outland Trophy winner, after the season, Ferentz had to deal with multiple injuries to the Hawkeyes running backs and the death of his father, John, during the 2004 season
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Kinnick Stadium
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Kinnick Stadium, formerly known as Iowa Stadium, is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the stadium of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes. First opened in 1929, it holds up to 70,585 people, making it the 7th largest stadium in the Big Ten. It is named for Nile Kinnick, the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner and the only Heisman winner in university history and it was named Iowa Stadium until 1972, when longtime lobbying by Cedar Rapids Gazette sportswriter Gus Schrader successfully convinced the UI athletic board to change the name. It is currently the only football stadium named after a Heisman Trophy winner. Iowa Stadium was constructed in seven months between 1928 and 1929. Groundbreaking and construction began on March 6,1929, workers worked around the clock using lights by night and horses and mules as the primary heavy-equipment movers. There was a rumor for many years that horses that died during the process were buried under what now is the North end zone, historians report this is a myth and the animals were disposed of in the nearby Iowa River. The round-the-clock construction came to an end in July, the stadium was dedicated two weeks later, when the Hawkeyes tied Illinois 7–7. The playing surface is currently synthetic Field Turf, although it was AstroTurf from 1972 until grass was reinstalled for the 1989 through 2008 seasons. The installation of artificial turf came at the time that Iowa Stadium was renamed Kinnick Stadium in honor of the Heisman winner who had perished 29 years earlier. When filled to capacity, Kinnick Stadium would be the fifth-largest city in Iowa, prior to the 2015 football season, the stadium did not have permanent lights, the school contracted Musco Lightings portable light trucks for night games in previous years. The school had installed permanent practice lights in 2012, by capacity, Kinnick Stadium is the 27th largest college football stadium, the 42nd largest sports stadium in the United States, and the 86th largest sports stadium in the world. On November 14,2015, Iowa set the collegiate wrestling dual-meet attendance record at Kinnick with over 42,000 fans in a victory over #1 Oklahoma State. Kinnick Stadium is well known for its pink visitors locker rooms, believing that pink would put opponents in a passive mood, and because he thought that some believed pink was a sissy color, Fry had the visiting locker rooms decorated completely in the color pink. The pink locker room tradition has continued with the newly renovated locker rooms. Controversy flared during the 2005 season when a law professor, along with other university faculty and students protested the pink coloration as demeaning to women. Despite these protests and with lots of student support, however, a more recent feature is the 20-foot-tall bronze statue of Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick, the statue depicts Kinnick dressed as a scholar, rather than in his football uniform
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2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
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The 2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa and the Iowa Hawkeyes football program in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Coached by Kirk Ferentz, the Hawkeyes played their seven games in Kinnick Stadium. Iowa opened the 2007 season on September 1,2007, against Northern Illinois in a game played at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Hawkeye running backs Albert Young and Damian Sims ran for 144 and 110 yards rushing respectively, the Hawkeyes won, 16–3, and ended the four-game losing streak that comprised the final four games of Iowas 2006 season. The next week, Iowa defeated Syracuse in the Hawkeyes home opener, Iowa took a quick 28–0 lead with 9,55 left in the second quarter, and the Hawkeye defense sacked Syracuse six times while holding the Orange to 24 rushing yards. Following the first two games – which saw the Iowa defense give up three points – the Hawkeyes traveled to Ames, Iowa, to play 0–2 Iowa State on September 15. Iowa fell behind by 12 at half-time, and lost, 15–13, placekicker Bret Culbertson scored all of Iowa States points on five field goals, the last coming with one second remaining. Christensen threw for 182 yards and the only touchdown – a 20-yard pass to Brandon Myers in the third quarter which gave the Hawkeyes a 10–6 lead. However, it appeared that Illinois had taken a 12–10 lead on an 83-yard Eddie McGee touchdown pass midway through the fourth quarter, the Illini were forced to punt, but got the ball back with 2,28 remaining. McGee threw passes of 28 and 24 yards to Arrelious Benn, however, Brett Greenwood intercepted a McGee pass at the goal-line, sealing the win and snapping an eight-game Big Ten losing streak for Iowa heading into a road game at Purdue. But Iowa lost to the Boilermakers a week later, 31–6, curtis Painter threw for 315 yards and three touchdowns for Purdue, who had lost to the Hawkeyes, 47–17, only a year earlier. In Iowas next game against Michigan State, the Hawkeyes entered half-time down by 14 points only to take a 20–17 lead with 10,05 remaining in regulation. Down by a touchdown, Christensen found wide receiver Paul Chaney for a 23-yard touchdown pass and following the extra point, Iowa had the ball first and scored on a Jevon Pugh one-yard run, giving the Hawkeyes their own seven-point lead. However, the Spartans were unable to score and Iowa won, the win was Iowas first overtime victory in Kinnick Stadium history. On November 3, Iowa defeated Northwestern, 28–17, after trailing, 14–0, the Wildcats took a 17–14 on a third-quarter field goal after the Hawkeyes tied the game at 14, but Sims ran for two fourth-quarter touchdowns to seal the Iowa victory. Christensen threw for 299 yards for Iowa, who came back from a 14-point deficit in the second straight game, later, on November 10, Iowa defeated Minnesota, 21–16, to reclaim the Floyd of Rosedale trophy. With one home game remaining against Western Michigan, Iowa held a winning streak. But the Hawkeyes lost to the Broncos, 28–19, and gave up 489 yards in the process, Western Michigan took a 19–0 second quarter lead before Iowa scored 13 straight points to make it a six-point game
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2010 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
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The 2010 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Hawkeyes, led by 12th year head coach Kirk Ferentz, were members of the Big Ten Conference and played their games at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes finished the regular season 7–5 and earned a trip to the Insight Bowl, the Hawkeyes won the game 27–24 and finished the season 8–5. Iowa came off of an 11–2 season in 2009, in which finished with a victory over Georgia Tech in the 2010 Orange Bowl. Many players from the season returned, including Ricky Stanzi, Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, Marvin McNutt, Adrian Clayborn and Tyler Sash. Iowa entered the season ranked 9th in the AP Poll and 10th in the Coaches Poll. Running back Adam Robinson carried the ball 24 times for 109 yards and 3 touchdowns, while Stanzi, also scoring for Iowa was Paki OMeara, who blocked an Eastern Illinois punt and returned it 42 yards. Trailing 21-0, Eastern Illinois only points came on a drive that included a fake punt. From the get-go, the Hawkeyes were in control of the game, receiving the opening kickoff, in all, Iowa possessed the ball for over 35 minutes, passing for 275 yards and rushing for another 204 along the way. The Cyclones, meanwhile, endured a replica of the performance they put forward against Iowa in 2009. Quarterback Austen Arnaud, who threw for four interceptions in that game, was picked off three times this year. After allowing long interception and kickoff returns for touchdowns, the #9 Hawkeyes found themselves down by 20 at halftime, despite the sizable deficit on the road, Iowa mounted a comeback with a strong second half. Ricky Stanzi tossed a third touchdown to Derrell Johnson-Koulianos. Moments later, defensive end Broderick Binns snatched a Nick Foles pass out of the air, the extra point was blocked, denying the Hawkeyes their first lead of the game. On the ensuing possession, Foles led the Wildcats on a 9-play, 72-yard drive capped with a 4-yard touchdown pass on third, Stanzi was sacked three times on Iowa’s next possession, effectively ending the game. Arizona would go on to start 7-1 before dropping their final five games of the season to finish 7-6, the Hawkeyes came off the tough loss at Arizona by dominating Ball State, outgaining the Cardinals 562-112 in total yards. Ricky Stanzi threw for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with two of those scores being hauled in by Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, Adam Robinson had 115 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns. Iowa opened up Big Ten play in dominating fashion, holding a ranked Penn State team to 54 yards rushing en route to its largest margin of victory over the Nittany Lions, 24-3
