IOWA CITY, Iowa — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti already knows one of the plays he’ll be submitting to the Big Ten for review this week.
After IU's 20-15 win over Iowa , Cignetti walked reporters through the strange sequence at the end of the game that ultimately forced the offense into taking a safety as time expired on Saturday.
The No. 12 Hoosiers (5-0; 2-0 Big Ten) forced a turnover on downs at midfield with 16 seconds left, but couldn't just kneel out the clock since Iowa still had all three of its timeouts left.
Cignetti installed a play, “victory delay," for that very scenario where the quarterback simply walks backward to delay taking a knee in order to run more time off the clock. He used the same call to close out a 32-28 win over Appalachian State during JMU’s