{"id":483371,"date":"2025-12-31T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:38:09","slug":"iowa-scores-touchdown-one-play-after-bizarre-penalty-on-vanderbilt-punter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/483371\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa scores touchdown one play after bizarre penalty on Vanderbilt punter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iowa<\/a><\/strong> has put Vanderbilt<\/a><\/strong> quarterback Diego Pavia<\/a><\/strong> in a blender early on at the Reliaquest Bowl, but it was a bizarre special teams play that helped open up the lead late in the second quarter. The Commodores were hit with an exceedingly rare penalty.<\/p>\n

After Pavia was sacked for the fourth time in the first half, Vanderbilt set up to punt from deep in its own territory. The ball was at the 15-yard line.<\/p>\n

Iowa defenders bailed on the punt coverage pretty early, leaving the whole right side of the field wide open. Vanderbilt punter Nick Haberer<\/a><\/strong> saw the space and began to run. The announcers thought he was going to take off on a fake to attempt to reach the first down marker, which was all the way up at the 42-yard line.<\/p>\n

Either Haberer thought better of it, or the play was never designed to be a fake. He pulled up and booted the ball, but only after he had crossed the original line of scrimmage.<\/p>\n

Officials flagged it for a penalty, which put the ball on the Vanderbilt 10-yard line. It was a huge swing, some 50 yards or so and a loss of downs. Iowa took over. You can view the crazy punt penalty below.<\/p>\n

The penalty was incredibly costly for Vanderbilt. Instead of getting the ball around midfield, Iowa collected it at the 10-yard line with 45 seconds to play in the half.<\/p>\n

The Hawkeyes would score on the ensuing play. Quarterback Mark Gronowsk<\/a><\/strong>i found Reece Vander Zee<\/a><\/strong> on the right side of the end zone for a toe-tapping 10-yard touchdown grab. That extended the Iowa lead to 14-3 just before the half.<\/p>\n

Iowa mostly dominated defensively in the first half. Pavia was sacked four times, unable to generate any sort of rhythm.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt\u2019s offense gained just 118 yards in the first half. Of that, 35 yards came on a last-minute drive just before the half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa has put Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia in a blender early on at the Reliaquest Bowl, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483372,"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-483371","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\/115816582553660283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483371","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=483371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}