Hawkeyes Win in Romp, Panthers Stay Perfect

It was a nice sunny day in Iowa on Saturday. Iowa won. Northern Iowa won. And Iowa State was off, so at the very least they'll probably get better over this week (they play at Tulsa this coming Thursday).

Here are some run downs on what happened Saturday.

When it feels like a double-double victory-victory (the Gazette)

Pretty perfect day for Martin-Manley, whose punt returns of 83 and 63 yards for touchdowns gave Iowa a start. Pretty perfect day for cornerback B.J. Lowery, who returned two interceptions for touchdowns (35 and 13 yards) that came back-to-back in Iowa scoring. Pretty perfect day for the Hawkeyes (3-1), who scored touchdowns four different ways against the Broncos (0-4) and launched into Big Ten play next week at Minnesota (4-0) with a dominating victory.

“You know you didn’t play very well when the opposing head coach, who I respect and admire, just looks at you and goes, ‘Just one of those games,’ ” first-year WMU coach P.J. Fleck said. “Wow. Kirk Ferentz said it’s just one of those games, I guess it was. I mean, I don’t know. We didn’t play very well.”

Sawyer Kollmorgen led Northern Iowa to a runaway 26-7 win over Northern Colorado on Saturday, throwing for 242 yards and a touchdown.

Kollmorgen connected with Chad Owens for a 7-yard touchdown late in the first quarter to give Northern Iowa (3-0) a lead it would hold over Northern Colorado (1-3) for the rest of the game.