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McCaffrey leads Stanford’s 45-16 Rose Bowl romp over Iowa
Player of the game: Heisman Trophy runner-up Christian McCaffrey set a Rose Bowl record for all-purpose yards with 368 – breaking the old record of 344. That Iowa provides the best argument against expansion of the four-team field – because, you know, Iowa would have made an eight-team playoff, and after this Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual, nobody needs to see that. In the 1985 when at least one-third of farmers throughout the USA were suffering financially, according to federal government statistics, Iowa coach Hayden Fry slapped “ANF” logos, standing for America Needs Farmers, on his players’ helmets. “We left a lot of points on the board”.
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“He earned that trip to NY and nobody on our team would disagree with that”, said Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, whose team finished 12-2.
“C.J.’s been less than 100 percent basically all season long”, he said. Thirteen times they’ve prepared well, they’ve competed hard, and today just didn’t work out for us. So this game hurts. Unfortunately, the post-game interview got ruined by an annoying Stanford fan.
That sophomore class of running backs is indeed ridiculous.
“You talk to great players and (they) always play with a chip on their shoulder whether they have a reason to or not, ” McCaffrey said.
Elliott was Ohio State’s drive capper in the first half, scoring on three short runs. We had a similar situation to that in 2009 at Penn State.
The Hawkeyes had no answer for McCaffrey, which is hardly an indictment on them.
Play of the game: As terrific as McCaffrey was, the play of the game was this fake fumble touchdown pass. There are few things better than a perfectly executed trick play. No player in those games, though – in 1982, ’86 or ’91 – so single-handedly authored the result. “We had ample opportunity after that to play, but they played a tremendous game in all phases”. But while the tradition of the game involves a parade and football, lately the band from Stanford also chose to use the halftime show to take shots at the other team. “We knew we were going to have a chance to get guys in space”.
The fifth-year senior quarterback, who stepped into the limelight as a redshirt freshman to fill the shoes of departed All-American Andrew Luck and won his first 10 starts, has now captured his second Rose Bowl title in three tries, his third bowl victory in four tries overall.
“It’s impossible to duplicate that, ” Ferentz said.
“He’s a rare talent”.
Christian McCaffrey added a punt return for a touchdown to his expanding resume, not that he needed to show anything more than he has during a remarkable, record-setting season.
The final two games of Iowa’s season proved a real disappointing finish to the winningest campaign in program history. Can’t we just skip the 2016 NFL Draft or include these guys in?
Blythe said he agreed with Lomax. “But that was one way we thought we could really get the safeties to suck up and isolate Michael Rector down the field, and it worked to perfection”. Everybody working towards a common goal, working together.
Rose Bowl winners celebrate. The Hawkeyes are 14-14-1 all-time in 29 bowl game appearances.
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When McCaffrey wasn’t carving up the Iowa defense, Shittu was overpowering the Hawkeye offense.