Regular season ·

Minnesota beat Iowa

Minnesota4-312
No. 24 Iowa6-210Final
Sat, Oct 21 · Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City, Iowa · Crowd 69,250 · 68°, clearNBC

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

Minnesota beat No. 24 Iowa by 2 points.

Iowa was No. 24 in the AP poll before the game; Minnesota was not ranked.

How the game turned

Minnesota aheadIowa aheadBiggest swingLow: 17%

Q4 8:33 Minnesota 12, Iowa 10

Minnesota 59% to win

Kesich 31-yd field goal, Minnesota goes ahead 12-10

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:35 · Minnesota 0, Iowa 3Stevens 23-yd field goal, Iowa goes ahead 3-0
  2. 2Q2 0:49 · Minnesota 3, Iowa 10Minnesota's win chance fell from 29% to 23%.Hill 1-yd TD run, Iowa goes ahead 10-3
  3. 3Q4 8:33 · Minnesota 12, Iowa 10Minnesota's win chance rose from 40% to 59%.Kesich 31-yd field goal, Minnesota goes ahead 12-10

Minnesota's lowest chance to win was 17 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 8:33 left in the 4th quarter, Minnesota's chance to win went from 40 percent to 59 percent when Minnesota kicked a field goal.

The score went from Minnesota 9, Iowa 10 to Minnesota 12, Iowa 10.

The play: Kesich 31-yd field goal, Minnesota goes ahead 12-10.

It was Minnesota's first win over Iowa since the 2014 season, after 8 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Minnesota's next game: W 27-12 vs Michigan State, Oct 28

    7 days later
  2. Iowa's next game: W 10-7 vs Northwestern, Nov 4

    14 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Oct 21, 2023: Iowa 31, Minnesota 14, Sep 21, 2024

    about 11 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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