IOWA CITY — For all the talk about motivation, this ultimately became another hard-hitting Iowa -Penn State football classic, with both sides desperately fighting for the win.

The Nittany Lions may have been limping into Kinnick Stadium without their fired head coach after a disappointing Big Ten Conference start, but a series of self-inflicted Iowa mistakes gave the visitors plenty of life for four quarters of football at Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 18.

And like in a classic fistfight, both teams traded punches throughout a dramatic fourth quarter.

And Xavier Nwankpa and the gassed Phil Parker defense delivered the knockout blow, sending the Hawkeyes to a stirring 25-24 win before 69,250 striped-out fans.

Iowa’s Koen Entringer delivered the first key shot to keep the Hawkeyes in it, a

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