{"id":14508,"date":"2022-12-09T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14508"},"modified":"2022-12-02T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:17:10","slug":"football-season-recap-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/football-season-recap-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Football season recap 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team that is supposed to wear black:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Won a game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/34517062\/second-half-safeties-lead-iowa-south-dakota-state-7-3-offensively-inept-game\">without scoring an offensive <em>or<\/em> defensive touchdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Had a game with 146 total yards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/matchup?gameId=401405135\">and won by double digits<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lost one game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/recap?gameId=401405119\">by 44 points<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Finished the regular season with the second-worst offense (by yards per game) in Division I-A \u2014 but played, and beat, teams with the fifth-, 10th-, and 24th-worst offenses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/recap?gameId=401405141\">Played a game that didn&#8217;t hit the over-under<\/a> on the lowest number ever posted (31\u00bd, according to the AP), and won<\/li>\n<li>Had a second half that went touchdown, punt, punt, punt, punt, missed field goal, punt \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/playbyplay\/_\/gameId\/401405130\">and won<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Would&#8217;ve gone to the conference championship game had it not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/sports\/college\/iowa\/football\/2022\/11\/26\/iowa-football-nebraska-score-hawkeyes-big-ten-west-standings\/69667453007\/\">fallen on its face<\/a> against a team that lost to a team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-football\/news\/nebraska-northwestern-dublin-aer-lingus-classic\/mvmgc9t5qagbqllzivnthm6r\">did not win a game in North America<\/a> this season, and so the losing team in the previous bullet point went instead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team that is not supposed to wear black:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lost a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/schedule\/_\/id\/66\/iowa-state-cyclones\">combined six games<\/a> by 24 points<\/li>\n<li>Missed a combined six field goals in games lost by 3, 4, and 3 points<\/li>\n<li>Had a game with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/matchup?gameId=401404115\">422 total yards of offense, and lost<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Had 19 first downs vs. the opponent&#8217;s 11, but committed five turnovers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/matchup?gameId=401404110\">and lost<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brentblum\/status\/1581784084866818049\">Had this happen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsJustMoneyPod\/status\/1581365360187518980\">full-speed version here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Beat its most hated rival, which turned out to be a bad sign, because <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DBSportsYT\/status\/1591631728480755713\">with only one exception (2000)<\/a> it has never beaten that rival <em>and<\/em> won a bowl game in the same season<\/li>\n<li>DOES NOT HAVE AN ACTUAL SPECIAL TEAMS COACH I MEAN SERIOUSLY HOW AND WHY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is 2022 Iowa State the best 4-8 team in history? Perhaps! (Put your hand down, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/schools\/notre-dame\/2016-schedule.html\">2016 Notre Dame<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team that is supposed to wear black: Won a game without scoring an offensive or defensive touchdown Had a game with 146 total yards, and won by double digits Lost one game by 44 points Finished the regular season with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/football-season-recap-2022\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14548,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions\/14548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}