{"id":365766,"date":"2025-11-09T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365766\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:18:14","slug":"oregon-saves-cfp-hopes-escapes-iowa-on-last-second-field-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365766\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon saves CFP hopes, escapes Iowa on last-second field goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4892332\/atticus-sappington\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atticus Sappington<\/a> kicked a 39-yard field goal with three seconds left, and No. 9 Oregon escaped with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/game\/_\/gameId\/401752898\/oregon-iowa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">18-16 win<\/a> over No. 20 Iowa on a rainy Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4870921\/dante-moore\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dante Moore<\/a> led a 10-play, 54-yard drive to set up Sappington&#8217;s third field goal of the game, connecting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5150247\/malik-benson\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Malik Benson<\/a> for 24 yards to get the Ducks (8-1, 5-1 Big Ten) into range for the winning kick.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4695400\/mark-gronowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Gronowski<\/a>&#8216;s 3-yard touchdown run capped a 12-play, 93-yard march that gave the Hawkeyes (6-3, 4-2) their first lead, 16-15 with 1:51 to play. Iowa went for 2, but Gronowski&#8217;s conversion pass was incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Moore completed five passes for 47 yards during the winning drive on what was otherwise a challenging day for the Ducks&#8217; offense. He finished with just 112 yards passing and one interception.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/46893930\/college-football-week-11-superlatives-usc-texas-tech\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1572617_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4432631\/noah-whittington\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Noah Whittington<\/a> had 118 rushing yards for coach Dan Lanning&#8217;s Ducks, who extended their road winning streak to 11 games, the longest in the FBS.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup between two of the country&#8217;s top scoring defenses lived up to the numbers. Iowa ranked fourth, allowing 12.4 points per game, while Oregon was sixth at 13.5.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks got a 19-yard touchdown run from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5141499\/dierre-hill-jr\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dierre Hill Jr<\/a>. in the second quarter to go with Sappington&#8217;s field goals. Oregon also got a safety when Iowa punter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5192953\/rhys-dakin\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rhys Dakin<\/a> was called for an illegal kick after trying to knock the ball out of the back of the end zone after a bad snap.<\/p>\n<p>Gronowski threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5218931\/dj-vonnahme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Vonnahme<\/a> in the second quarter. The Hawkeyes also got a 58-yard field goal from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5081335\/drew-stevens\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drew Stevens<\/a> in the fourth quarter that matched the longest kick in program history.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawkeyes, who had won 21 of their past 23 games in November, had their CFP hopes dashed despite an almost seven-minute edge in time of possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IOWA CITY, Iowa &#8212; Atticus Sappington kicked a 39-yard field goal with three seconds left, and No. 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-365766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115517110091379422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}