Iowa Football 2009 Recap

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HAWKEYE HISTORY

Iowa has played 1,128 games since beginning football in 1889. Iowa’s overall re-cord is 578-510-39 (.530). That includes a 365-199-16 (.643) record in home games,a 213-312-23 (.410) record in games away from Iowa City, a 285-344-25 (.455)mark in Big Ten games and a 248-163-15 (.600) record in Kinnick Stadium.

IOWA REACHES DOUBLE FIGURES

Iowa completed the regular season with a 12-0 win over Minnesota in Kinnick Stadium. Iowa posted a 10-2 overall record and a 6-2 mark in Big Ten Conferenceaction. The Hawkeyes have won as many as 10 games in a season for just theseventh time in school history. Coach Kirk Ferentz has led the Hawkeyes to 10 or more victories in four of 11 seasons (2002, 2003, 2004, 2009).Iowa has won as many as 10 games in the regular season for just the fourth time.Iowa won 11 regular season games in 2002 and 10 in 1985 and 1991.

IOWA WAITS FOR BOWL DESTINATION

Iowa will play in its eighth bowl game in the past nine seasons after posting a10-2 regular season record. Iowa has played in ﬁve January bowl games since the2002 season, including the 2009 Outback Bowl. Iowa has been bowl eligible the past nine seasons.

IOWA PLACES SECOND IN BIG TEN

Iowa won six Big Ten conference games for the third time under Coach Kirk Ferentz. Iowa tied for second place in the final conference standings. Ohio Statewon the league with a 7-1 record while Penn State was also 6-2. Iowa lost at OhioState, 27-24, in overtime. The Hawkeyes opened conference action with a 21-10win at Penn State. Iowa did not play league opponents Illinois and Purdue.The second place finish is the best for the Hawkeyes since they shared the BigTen title in 2004. Iowa was third in 2005 and has finished in the Big Ten’s firstdivision eight of the past nine seasons.

FERENTZ NAMED COACH OF THE YEAR

Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz has been named the Dave McClain Big Ten ConferenceCoach of the Year for the third time. He is also one of 15 semi-finalists for theGeorge Munger Award, presented by the Maxwell Football Club to the CollegeCoach of the Year.Ferentz was also the league Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2004. He was theAssociated Press and Walter Camp National Coach of the Year in 2002.Ferentz has led nine straight Iowa teams to bowl eligibility and the Hawkeyeshave finished in the Big Ten’s first division eight of the past nine seasons. Ferentzhas an 80-55 (.593) record at Iowa, including a 69-31 (.690) record and a 42-22(.656) conference record the last eight seasons.

IOWA LEADERSHIP GROUP

Iowa’s Leadership Group for the 2009 season includes three seniors, four juniors,four sophomores, two redshirt freshmen and one true freshman. Permanent teamcaptains are named at the conclusion of each season. The Leadership Group for this season includes seniors Pat Angerer, A.J. Edds and Tony Moeaki; juniorsBryan Bulaga, Adrian Clayborn, Brett Greenwood and Ricky Stanzi, sophomoresBroderick Binns, Marvin McNutt, Tyler Nielsen and Tyler Sash, redshirt freshmenGreg Castillo and James Vandenberg and true freshman Keenan Davis.

Date of Release: Nov. 24, 2009Iowa Sports Information: 319-335-9411

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Iowa Hawkeyes2009 Results (10-2, 6-2)

9/5 Northern Iowa W, 17-169/12 at Iowa State W, 35-39/19 Arizona W, 27-179/26 at #4 Penn State* W, 21-1010/3 Arkansas State W, 24-2110/10 Michigan* W, 30-2810/17 at Wisconsin* W, 20-1010/24 at Michigan State* W, 15-1310/31 Indiana W, 42-2411/7 Northwestern* L, 10-1711/14 at #8 Ohio State* L, 24-27 (OT)11/21 Minnesota* W, 12-0

All-Big Ten Honors

Player Coaches Media

Pat Angerer First First Bryan Bulaga First First Adrian Clayborn First First Tyler Sash First First Tony Moeaki First Second Dace Richardson First Second Amari Spievey First Second Derrell J-Koulianos Second HM Rafael Eubanks Second HM A.J. Edds Second - - -Christian Ballard HM - - -Kyle Calloway HM Second Ryan Donahue HM - - -Brett Greenwood HM Second Karl Klug HM - - - Adam Robinson HM - - -Broderick Binns - - - HM Daniel Murray - - - HM Ricky Stanzi - - - HM

Coach of the Year: Kirk Ferentz, Iowa

Off. Player of the Year: John Clay, Wisconsin (both)

Off. Lineman of the Year: Bryan Bulaga, Iowa

Def. Player of the Year: Jared Odrick, PSU (Coaches)Def. Player of the Year: Greg Jones, MSU (media)Def. Lineman of the Year: Jared Odrick, Penn StateFreshman of the Year: Chris Borland, Wisconsin (both)

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BULAGA HONOR HEADS ALL-BIG TEN

Junior tackle Bryan Bulaga has been named Big Ten Conference Offensive Line-man of the Year. Bulaga’s award, voted on by league media, highlights Iowa’sselections on the all-conference teams. In addition, Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz wastabbed, by Big Ten media, Dave McClain Coach of the Year.Bulaga (6-6, 312) is the rst Hawkeye offensive lineman to earn the honor sinceRobert Gallery was recognized in 2003. Mitch King was the Defensive Linemanof the Year in 2008.Bulaga was named rst team all-Big Ten by both the coaches and media. Other Hawkeyes named to the rst team by both media and coaches include DE AdrianClayborn, LB Pat Angerer and DB Tyler Sash.Senior Dace Richardson (offensive guard), tight end Tony Moeaki and DB AmariSpievey were also on the coaches rst team. The coaches also named WR DerrellJohnson-Koulianos, center Rafael Eubanks and OLB A.J. Edds to their secondteam. The media second team included Eubanks, Moeaki, Richardson, Spievey,OT Kyle Calloway and DB Brett Greenwood.Hawkeye players earning honorable mention recognition include defensive tack-les Christian Ballard and Karl Klug, P Ryan Donahue, RB Adam Robinson, DEBroderick Binns, PK Daniel Murray, and QB Ricky Stanzi. Edds was also honoredwith the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.

IOWA IN BCS RANKINGS

Iowa is ranked 11th in the BCS rankings. Iowa was ranked as high as fourthearlier this season, its highest BCS ever. The Hawkeyes were ranked fth duringthe nal three weeks of the 2002 season.The BCS rankings are a combination of the Harris Interactive poll, the USA Todaycoaches poll and computer rankings. Iowa is 10th in the computer rankings and13th in both the coaches poll and the Harris poll. Iowa was rst in the computer poll in the Oct. 25 rankings.Prior to this season, Iowa appeared in the BCS top 25 on 24 occasions, includingeight weeks in both 2002 and 2003, seven weeks in 2004 and one week in 2006.Iowa was ranked as high as 11th in 2003 and 2004 and 23rd in 2006.

IN THE RANKINGS

Iowa is ranked 13th in both the Associated Press and

USA Today

coaches’ rank-ings. The Hawkeyes are 11th in the BCS Standings and 13th in the Harris Poll.Iowa ranked as high as sixth in the coaches poll and eighth in the AP earlier thisseason, the highest for the Hawkeyes since they were third in both the AP rankingand the coaches poll in December, 2002.Around the Big Ten, Ohio State is 9/8 and Penn State is ranked No. 12/11. Inaddition, Iowa opponents listed among teams receiving votes include Arizona, Northwestern and Wisconsin.In pre-season rankings, Iowa was ranked 10th by College Football Insider, 15th by

The Kickoff Magazine

, 20th by

Phil Steele’s College Football Preview

, 21st inUSA Today coaches poll, 22nd by the Associated Press, 23rd by

Athlon Sports

and24th by

Sports Illustrated

.Iowa is ranked 18th in the latest Sagarin Ratings.

IOWA JOINS ANOTHER TOP 20

Iowa has earned 68 wins since the start of the 2002 season, which ties as the 16thhighest total in Division I football. The list includes the following: Boise State(91); USC (89); Texas (88); Ohio State (86); Oklahoma (84); LSU (80); Georgia(80); Virginia Tech (78); TCU (78); Florida (78); West Virginia (74); Utah (73);Boston College (72); Auburn (71); Wisconsin (70); IOWA (69); Texas Tech (69);Miami, FL (68), California (67) and Penn State (66).

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Date of Release: Nov. 24, 2009

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Mailing Address

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Weekly Football Press Conference

Iowa Head Coach Kirk Ferentz holds his weekly pressconferences every Tuesday throughout the season.The press conferences are held in the auditorium of the Hayden Fry Football Complex. Coach Ferentz ad-dresses the media at 12:30 p.m. and requested playerswill be available following the press conference. In caseof poor weather, player interviews will be conductedinside the bubble.Media need to submit their Tuesday player interviewrequests to Phil Haddy near the conclusion of the previ-ous Saturday’s football game. Media not in attendanceshould e-mail their requests to Haddy. True freshmenare not available for interviews.Media can access video highlights of Ferentz’s weeklypress conference, plus player clips and highlights viasatellite. The time is from 3:30 to 3:45 p.m. (CT). Thesatellite feed is available on C-Band Analog, Galaxy 19,Transponder 8.All press conferences can be viewed on the ofﬁcialworld wide web site of the Iowa Athletic Department athawkeyesports.com (subscription service). Each pressconference is archived.

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Date of Release: Nov. 24, 2009

JOHNSON EARNS BIG TEN HONOR

LB Troy Johnson was named Big Ten co-Defensive Player of the Week for his play in Iowa’s 12-0 victory over Minnesota.Johnson is a 6-2, 235-pound junior from Lakeland, FL. He was a starter for therst time in his career in the Minnesota game. He had 11 tackles and a sack for minus four yards. He also forced a fumble and fell on it for the recovery and wascredited with breaking up a pass.It’s the third time Iowa has had eight Big Ten Players of the Week. It also occurredduring the 1997 and 2002 seasons. The Hawkeyes had seven during the 2003 and2008 campaigns.

BOWL TICKET APPLICATIONS

The Iowa Athletics Ticket Ofce is accepting orders for possible bowl games in-volving the Hawkeye football team. Tickets purchased through the UI Ticket Ofceguarantee seat locations in the stadium that are next to other Hawkeye fans.The ticket office began accepting orders via its online ticket window athawkeyesports.com on Thursday, Nov. 17. No telephone orders will be acceptedfor bowl games until after the ofcial announcement of Iowa’s bowl site is made.That will likely be Dec. 6.All general public and UI faculty/staff 2009 Iowa football season ticket holdersand all members of the National I-Club will receive a bowl ticket application in themail. UI students who purchased season tickets for the 2009 season will receive ane-mail from the UI Athletic Ticket Ofce with details specic to student tickets.Fans who do not have a current online account are invited to send an e-mail totickets@hawkeyesports.com, requesting assistance in creating an online ticketaccount.The deadline to place an order for bowl game tickets and retain UI AthleticsDepartment ticket priority is Friday, Dec. 4. Orders for bowl game tickets will belled based on the customers’ current ticket priority. There will be limits placedon the number of tickets that can be ordered to some of the bowl games in whichIowa could be a participant.Additional information is available at hawkeyesports.com, the ofcial WorldWide Website of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

BEST DECADE FOR IOWA FOOTBALL

Iowa’s football record in the 2000 decade stands at 79-45 (.637), a record that ranksamong the best decades in Iowa football history. Iowa posted a record of 77-40-4(.652) during the 1980’s and the Hawkeyes were 62-53-2 (.538) in the 1990’s.Part of the Hawkeye success is due to the stability in the program, as Iowa hashad just two head coaches since 1979. Hayden Fry took over prior to the 1979season and coached through the 1998 season, posting a record of 143-89-6. Cur-rent Coach Kirk Ferentz replaced Fry and is now in his 11th season. Ferentz alsoserved as Iowa’s offensive line coach from 1981-89 under Fry.

IOWA WINNING THE CLOSE ONES

Iowa won four games by three points or less for the rst time ever in opening theseason with nine straight wins. The two Iowa losses were by seven and three pointsin overtime. Iowa won three games by three points or less in 2004, 1987 and 1986.In 2004, Iowa won by margins of 6-4, 23-21 and 29-27, all in conference play. In1987 Iowa had one point wins over Arizona and Wyoming and a two point decisionover Ohio State. In 1986 the Hawkeyes defeated Michigan State and Minnesota by three points before a 39-38 Holiday Bowl win over San Diego State.Iowa, in 1996, won two games by a single point and one game by seven. In 1993Iowa had victories by one, three and four points. The 1985 championship seasonincluded wins by two, three and four points. Iowa’s 9-1 season, in 1956, includedtwo wins by a single point and two six point victories.

Big Ten Standings

Team Big Ten Pct. Overall Pct.

Ohio State 7-1 .875 10-2 .833

IOWA 6-2 .750 10-2 .833

Penn State 6-2 .750 10-2 .833Wisconsin 5-3 .625 8-3 .727Northwestern 5-3 .625 8-4 .667Michigan State 4-4 .500 6-6 .500Purdue 4-4 .500 5-7 .417Minnesota 3-5 .375 6-6 .500Illinois 2-6 .250 3-7 .300Michigan 1-7 .125 5-7 .417Indiana 1-7 .125 4-8 .333

Last Week in the Big Ten

Iowa 12, Minnesota 0Ohio State 21, Michigan 10Purdue 38, Indiana 21Northwestern 33, Wisconsin 31Penn State 42, Michigan State 14

Remaining Big Ten Games

Nov. 27: Illinois at CincinnatiDec. 5: Fresno State at IllinoisDec. 5: Wisconsin at Hawai’i

Iowa Non-Conference Opponents

Team Record-Next Game

Northern Iowa 7-4Iowa State 6-6, bowl eligible Arizona 6-4, at Arizona State Arkansas State 2-8, North Texas

Hawkeyes in the Polls

Date A C H B Result

Pre. 22 21 - - - - - - W, 17-169/8 rv rv - - - - - - W, 35-39/14 rv rv - - - - - - W, 27-179/21 rv rv - - - - - - W, 21-109/28 13 17 14 - - - W, 24-2110/5 12 14 11 - - - W, 30-2810/12 11 12 11 - - - W, 20-1010/19 7 8 7 6 W, 15-1310/26 7 8 7 4 W, 42-2411/2 8 6 7 4 L, 10-1711/9 15 13 12 10 L, 24-27 (OT)11/16 15 15 14 13 W, 12-011/23 13 13 13 11

A=Associated Press; C=Coaches; H=Harris; B=BCS