Iowa football: Top three performances against Penn State

The Iowa football team fell to Penn State Saturday in frustrating fashion. Despite losing, there were some standout performances. Here are the top three.

Twitter was blowing up Saturday evening as the Iowa football team blew an important game against a tough Penn State Nittany Lion program. The game was disappointing and everyone was pretty frustrated, myself included. I think, for me personally, what made it such a tough loss to swallow is that we have already seen this happen four games ago against Wisconsin.

Bad mistakes and performances at the most inopportune times were once again the down fall of the Iowa football team. We chronicled a few of those bad mistakes and performances yesterday even. It wasn’t all bad as we alluded to with our three positive takeaways from the loss, and many Iowa Hawkeyes played quite well in Saturday’s contest.

In fact, the defense was superb in the contest as they faced arguably the top rushing duo in the Big Ten in Miles Sanders and Trace McSorley, and they kept the Hawks in the game by timely turnovers and stop.

Offensively it may have seem like there were zero good performances based on the fact that the offense managed to score zero touchdowns on their own and needed a lot of special teams help, but there were a few highlights from a few players, which we will cover today.

Here are our three best performances from Saturday.