Reliaquest Bowl ·

Reliaquest Bowl

ReliaQuest Bowl
Iowa9-434
No. 13 Vanderbilt10-327Final
Wed, Dec 31 · Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Fla. (neutral site) · Crowd 35,382 · 54°, clearESPN

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

Iowa beat No. 13 Vanderbilt by 7 points, the Reliaquest Bowl.

Vanderbilt was No. 13 in the last AP poll before the bowls; Iowa was not ranked.

It was played at a neutral site: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL.

How the game turned

Iowa aheadVanderbilt aheadBiggest swingLow: 33%
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Q3 8:37 Iowa 21, Vanderbilt 10

Iowa 77% to win

Pavia 75-yd TD pass to Richardson, cuts it to 21-10

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:55 · Iowa 7, Vanderbilt 0Iowa's win chance rose from 46% to 55%.Moulton 4-yd TD run, Iowa goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q1 (no clock) · Iowa 7, Vanderbilt 0Iowa's win chance fell from 74% to 63%.Gronowski intercepted by Hight
  3. 3Q2 0:41 · Iowa 14, Vanderbilt 3Iowa's win chance rose from 57% to 69%.Gronowski 10-yd TD pass to Vander Zee, Iowa leads 14-3
  4. 4Q3 8:37 · Iowa 21, Vanderbilt 10Iowa's win chance fell from 96% to 77%.Pavia 75-yd TD pass to Richardson, cuts it to 21-10
  5. 5Q3 1:41 · Iowa 24, Vanderbilt 17Iowa's win chance fell from 87% to 76%.Pavia 16-yd TD pass to McVay, cuts it to 24-17

Iowa's lowest chance to win was 33 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 8:37 left in the 3rd quarter, Vanderbilt's chance to win went from 4 percent to 23 percent when Vanderbilt scored a touchdown.

The score went from Iowa 21, Vanderbilt 3 to Iowa 21, Vanderbilt 10.

The play: Pavia 75-yd TD pass to Richardson, cuts it to 21-10.

What happened next

  1. Iowa finished the 2025 season 9-4.

  2. Vanderbilt finished the 2025 season 10-3, No. 13 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  3. Iowa's first game of the 2026 season: W 40-0 vs Northern Illinois, Sep 5, 2026

    about 8 months later

  4. Vanderbilt's first game of the 2026 season: W 28-9 vs Austin Peay, Sep 5, 2026

    about 8 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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