{"id":68,"date":"2019-11-18T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/?p=68"},"modified":"2019-11-18T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T14:42:09","slug":"iowa-beats-minnesota-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/2019\/11\/iowa-beats-minnesota-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa beats Minnesota? Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Going into Kinnick on Saturday for my last game of the season, I was sure I was going to be watching a losing game. Minnesota has been historically bad, but this season they\u2019ve been UNBELIEVABLE. Like, 9-0 including a win over Penn State? We were going to lose. I was sure of it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And then? We won.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5540-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5540-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5540.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waving to the kids is a tearjerker every. single. time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I mean, barely. But a win is a win, and we kept the Pig home and beat a team that Penn State couldn\u2019t even win against (Minnesota beats Penn State, we beat Minnesota, does that mean we beat Penn State?). Our offense was finally able to come together and our defense was absolutely solid (as always).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Actually<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0watching the game, I realized that Minnesota wasn\u2019t even really that good. They started almost every drive with a long pass, something that the Iowa defense eventually figured out in the second half, and their quarterback was sacked at least four times.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5543-e1574029676393-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5543-e1574029676393-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5543-e1574029676393-748x420.jpg 748w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5543-e1574029676393-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5543-e1574029676393.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And the fact that their kicker missed not only an extra point but a field goal. Four points that could\u2019ve tied the game. Keith Duncan would never. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5541-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5541-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_5541.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of @uiowa Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After we won, there was that ever-so iconic storm of the field, in which I tripped over someone and fell, and got pushed by a team of state troopers who were shoving their way through the crowd. Worth it? Absolutely.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into Kinnick on Saturday for my last game of the season, I was sure I was going to be watching a losing game. Minnesota has been historically bad, but this season they\u2019ve been UNBELIEVABLE. Like, 9-0 including a win over Penn State? We were going to lose. I was sure of it.\u00a0 And then? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/2019\/11\/iowa-beats-minnesota-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iowa beats Minnesota? Wild<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/chloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}