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#19/#20 Iowa (8-3, 5-3) at Nebraska (5-6, 3-5)
When: Friday, November 29 | 1:30 p.m. (CT)
Where: Memorial Stadium | Lincoln, NE
TV: Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler, Matt Millen, Lisa Byington)
Radio: Husker Sports Network (Greg Sharpe, Matt Davison, Ben McLaughlin)
Satellite Radio: Sirius (Ch. 135) | XM (Ch. 195)
Internet Audio: Huskers.com | TuneIn.com
This Week's Numbers
3 - Junior receiver JD Spielman owns three of the top 10 receiving yardage seasons in school history, including his 864 yards this season which ranks seventh on the season chart. Spielman is the only receiver in school history with three 800-yard receiving seasons.
22 - Nebraska will honor 22 players before the start of Friday's game in Senior Day activities at Memorial Stadium. The group includes seven players who have made 15 or more career starts.
30 - Nebraska has played on the Friday after Thanksgiving for 30 consecutive seasons. In each of the past nine years, the matchup has been against Iowa. NU played Oklahoma on Black Friday from 1990 to 1995, and Colorado from 1996 to 2010.
The Matchup
Nebraska completes its 2019 regular season on Friday afternoon with its traditional Thanksgiving Friday matchup with Big Ten West rival Iowa. Game time from Memorial Stadium is set for 1:30 p.m. CT with television coverage provided by BTN. The game can be heard on the Husker Sports Network from Learfield-IMG.
Nebraska will enter the game with a 5-6 record, following a 54-7 victory over Maryland on Saturday in College Park. The 47-point margin of victory was Nebraska's largest against a Big Ten opponent in its nine seasons in the conference. The Husker offense continued to find a late-season stride, rolling up more than 500 yards, including more than 200 yards both rushing and passing for the third time in four games.
Nebraska needs a victory in the Heroes Game matchup in order to become bowl eligible for the first time since the 2016 season. The Huskers will also be looking for their first win over Iowa since a victory in Iowa City in 2014.
Iowa will come to Lincoln with an 8-3 overall record and a 5-3 record in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes are ranked 19th in the Associated Press Poll and No. 20 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Iowa has won its past two games heading into the regular-season finale, including a 19-10 victory over Illinois on Saturday in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes boast one of the nation's top defenses, allowing just 306.1 yards and 12.2 points per game. Iowa has not allowed an opponent to score more than 24 points and has limited five teams to 10 points for fewer.
Series History
Nebraska and Iowa will meet for the ninth straight year in the regular season finale on Friday at Memorial Stadium. Before joining the Big Ten in 2011, the teams met 41 times as non-conference opponents, including 14 games between 1930 and 1946. Nebraska and Iowa also met four straight years from 1979 to 1982, and the final matchups as non-conference opponents were in 1999 and 2000.
This year's meeting will mark the ninth straight year that Nebraska and Iowa will meet on the day after Thanksgiving. After a two-year break from the Black Friday matchup between the schools in 2020 and 2021, Nebraska and Iowa are scheduled to resume their post-Thanksgiving matchup in 2022.
Nebraska had an eight-game win streak in the series and a pair of five-game win streaks. Iowa's current four-game win streak is its longest in the series.
Nebraska leads the all-time series 29-17-3 and leads 14-5-1 in games played in Lincoln.
Series History
1891 - Iowa 22, Nebraska 0 (Omaha)
1892 - Nebraska 10, Iowa 10 (Omaha)
1893 - Nebraska 20, Iowa 18 (Omaha)
1894 - Nebraska 36, Iowa 0 (Omaha)
1895 - Nebraska 6, Iowa 0 (Omaha)
1896 - Nebraska 0, Iowa 0 (Omaha)
1896 - Iowa 6, Nebraska 0 (Omaha)
1897 - Nebraska 6, Iowa 0 (Council Bluffs)
1898 - Iowa 6, Nebraska 5 (Council Bluffs)
1899 - Iowa 30, Nebraska 0 (Omaha)
1903 - Nebraska 17, Iowa 6 (Iowa City)
1904 - Nebraska 17, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1908 - Nebraska 11, Iowa 8 (Iowa City)
1909 - Nebraska 6, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1913 - Nebraska 12, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1914 - Nebraska 16, Iowa 7 (Iowa City)
1915 - Nebraska 52, Iowa 7 (Lincoln)
1916 - Nebraska 34, Iowa 17 (Iowa City)
1917 - Nebraska 47, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1918 - Iowa 12, Nebraska 0 (Lincoln)
1919 - Iowa 18, Nebraska 0 (Iowa City)
1930 - Iowa 12, Nebraska 7 (Iowa City)
1931 - Nebraska 7, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1932 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 13 (Iowa City)
1933 - Nebraska 7, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1934 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 13 (Lincoln)
1937 - Nebraska 28, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1938 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 0 (Iowa City)
1940 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1941 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 13 (Lincoln)
1942 - Iowa 27, Nebraska 0 (Iowa City)
1943 - Iowa 33, Nebraska 13 (Lincoln)
1944 - Iowa 27, Nebraska 6 (Iowa City)
1945 - Nebraska 13, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1946 - Iowa 21, Nebraska 7 (Iowa City)
1979 - #7 Nebraska 24, Iowa 21 (Iowa City)
1980 - #6 Nebraska 57, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1981 - Iowa 10, #7 Nebraska 7 (Iowa City)
1982 - #3 Nebraska 42, Iowa 7 (Lincoln)
1999 - #5 Nebraska 42, Iowa 7 (Iowa City)
2000 - #1 Nebraska 42, Iowa 13 (Lincoln)
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2011 - #22 Nebraska 20, Iowa 7 (Lincoln)
2012 - #17 Nebraska 13, Iowa 7 (Iowa City)
2013 - Iowa 38, Nebraska 17 (Lincoln)
2014 - Nebraska 37, Iowa 34 (OT) (Iowa City)
2015 - #3 Iowa 28, Nebraska 20 (Lincoln)
2016 - Iowa 40, #16 Nebraska 10 (Iowa City)
2017 - Iowa 56, Nebraska 14 (Lincoln)
2018 - Iowa 31, Nebraska 28 (Iowa City)
Nebraska Continues Thanksgiving Friday Tradition
Nebraska will continue its long-standing tradition of playing on the day after Thanksgiving. This Friday's game with Iowa will mark the 30th consecutive season the Huskers have played on Thanksgiving Friday.
NU met Oklahoma in the final six seasons of the Big Eight Conference (1990 to 1995), then played Colorado in all 15 of the Huskers' Big 12 Conference years (1996 to 2010), before taking on Iowa each of the past nine seasons.
Nebraska will close the 2020 and 2021 seasons against Minnesota on Black Friday, before Iowa returns as the opponet for the regular season finale beginning in 2022.
• Nebraska owns a 19-10 record since 1990 in games on the day after Thanksgiving, including a 5-1 record against Oklahoma, an 11-4 mark against Colorado and a 3-5 mark against Iowa.
• Nebraska is 10-5 at home in Black Friday games since 1990, including 1-3 against the Hawkeyes.
• In addition to the past eight years, Nebraska and Iowa also closed the regular season against each other nine times from 1892 to 1916.
Huskers to Honor Seniors on Friday
Nebraska will hold its Senior Day festivities before Friday's game, honoring 22 players who will appear in Memorial Stadium for the final time against Iowa.
The group includes 14 fifth-year seniors, including seven players who will likely leave Nebraska as four-year letterwinners.
• The 2019 senior class has players from 12 states, including seven native Nebraskans.
• The 22-man senior class has accumulated a total of 219 starts in their collegiate careers. The group has six players with at least 15 starts at Nebraska including defensive lineman Carlos Davis (35), cornerback Lamar Jackson (35), linebacker Mohamed Barry (25), long snapper Chase Urbach (21), linebacker Alex Davis (20) and punter Isaac Armstrong (18).
• Seniors on the Nebraska offense have made a total of just 13 career starts at Nebraska.
• Linebacker Mohamed Barry will finish his career in the top 15 on the Nebraska career tackles chart.
• Cornerback Lamar Jackson will end his career in the top 10 in school history in pass breakups.
• Twin brothers, Carlos and Khalil Davis, are the seventh set of brothers in NU history to each record at least 100 career tackles.
• Fifteen of Nebraska's 22 seniors are playing the 2019 season as graduate students, with another five players set to graduate in December.
2019 Nebraska Football Senior Class
Avery Anderson (S), Surprise, AZ
Fyn Anderson (DL), Lincoln, NE
Isaac Armstrong (P), Lincoln, NE
Mohamed Barry (LB), Grayson, GA
Darrion Daniels (DL), Dallas, TX
Alex Davis (LB), Riviera Beach, FL
Carlos Davis (DL), Blue Springs, MO
Khalil Davis (DL), Blue Springs, MO
Austin Hemphill (RB), Gretna, NE
Lamar Jackson (CB), Elk Grove, CA
Reid Karel (S), Seward, NE
Eric Lee Jr. (S), Milton, MA
Wyatt Mazour (RB), Albion, NE
DaiShon Neal (DL), Houston, TX
Kanawai Noa (WR), Honolulu, HI
Jeremiah Stovall (CB), Omaha, NE
Chase Urbach (LS), Grosse Pointe, MI
Vaha Vainuku (DL), Salt Lake City, UT
Nick Virka (OL), Morse Bluff, NE
Jackson Walker (P), Overland Park, KS
Mike Williams (WR), Lake City, FL
Jaron Woodyard (WR), Gaithersburg, MD
About Iowa Football
Iowa has fielded a football team since 1889 and has an all-time record of 658-560-39. The Hawkeyes have a bowl record of 16-15-1. Most recently, Iowa beat No. 18 Mississippi State 27-22 in the Outback Bowl following the 2018 season. Iowa claims five national titles, most recently in 1960. The Hawkeyes have won 11 Big Ten titles, most recently in 2004. Iowa also won the Big Ten West Division in 2015. Iowa has produced 27 consensus All-Americans and 223 first-team All-Big Ten selections.
First Season: 1889
All-Time Record: 658-560-39
Big Ten Titles: 11
National Titles: 5
Stadium: Kinnick Stadium
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Enrollment: 32,948
School Colors: Black & Gold
2019 Iowa Schedule (8-3)
Miami (OH) (W 38-14)
Rutgers (W 30-0)
at Iowa State (W 18-17)
Middle Tennessee State (W 48-3)
at Michigan (L 3-10)
Penn State (L 12-17)
Purdue (W 26-20)
at Northwestern (W 20-0)
at Wisconsin (L 22-24)
Minnesota (W 23-19)
Illinois (W 19-10)
at Nebraska
Iowa is coming off a 19-10 win over Illinois. Quarterback Nate Stanley threw for a season-high 308 yards and the Hawkeye defense forced three turnovers in the win.
Stanley is averaging 239.9 passing yards per game and has through 14 touchdowns this season. His top target is Ihmir Smith-Marsette, who has 654 yards and four touchdowns. On the ground, Mekhi Sargent leads the team with 488 yards and four touchdowns.
The Hawkeyes rank first in the conference and sixth in the country in red zone offense, having scored 35 times on 37 attempts (95 percent) this season.
On defense Kristian Welch has a team-high 70 total tackles, including 38 solo stops. A.J. Epenesa has a team-best 7.0 sacks and is adding 8.5 tackles for loss.
About Kirk Ferentz
Kirk Ferentz is in his 21st season at Iowa and sports a record of 160-104 with the Hawkeyes and is 172-125 overall in his 24th season as a head coach. Ferentz is 5-5 in his career against Nebraska. Ferentz graduated in 1978 from the University of Connecticut where he played linebacker. Upon graduation he served as a grad assistant coach at UConn and in the high school ranks before taking an assistant coaching position at Pittsburgh. He then served as offensive line coach at Iowa from 1981 through 1989 and then was named the head coach at Maine (1990-1992). Following his stint at Maine, Ferentz served as an offensive line coach in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns (1993-1995) and the Baltimore Ravens (1996-1998) before being named Iowa's head coach in 1999.
Last Meeting: November 23, 2018
Iowa 31, Nebraska 28
IOWA CITY, IA - The easy field goal that coach Kirk Ferentz didn't have to fake nearly cost Iowa the game.
The kick the Hawkeyes had to make wound up rescuing them from a devastating defeat -- and saved Ferentz from getting excoriated from frustrated Iowa fans.
Miguel Recinos drilled a 41-yard field goal through a driving rain as time expired and Iowa beat Nebraska 31-28 on Friday despite blowing a 15-point lead in the second half.
Mekhi Sargent ran for a career-high 173 yards and scored twice for the Hawkeyes (8-4, 5-4 Big Ten), who have won four straight over the Cornhuskers for the first time.
"For us, this is a black and gold Friday," Ferentz joked.
The Hawkeyes came within inches of making it a black and blue Friday.
Iowa made the risky decision to fake a field goal at Nebraska's 3-yard line up 28-13 late in the third quarter. It failed, and it led to a 98-yard scoring drive from the Huskers to make it 28-20 with 13:57 to go.
"We were going for the kill. Simple as that," Ferentz said about holder Colten Rastetter's pass to T.J. Hockenson, which was stopped a yard short. "We felt like we could really push this thing through."
Adrian Martinez then ran it from 3 yards out with 3:22 left, and he used his feet to stay alive long enough to find Kade Warner -- son of NFL Hall of Famer Kurt Warner -- in the back of the end zone to tie it up.
But Hockenson found redemption with a 10-yard catch on a fourth-and-8 with 42 seconds to go. Recinos also came through on a last chance to redeem himself, putting it through the uprights after missing a 37-yarder with 7:54 left at the same end of the field.
"I kind of had a feeling after I missed that one that they were going to score again," Recinos said. "Right after the miss I just reset and just back in it to try and make that kick."
Sargent scored late in the second quarter on a 15-yard run and early in the third on a 5-yard pass from Nate Stanley to help the Hawkeyes jump ahead 28-13.
It felt like another easy wins over the Huskers was in order. But Nebraska and Martinez, their brilliant freshman quarterback, displayed some impressive resilience in nearly pulling off the comeback stunner.
"Adrian Martinez showed us that he's fearless," Nebraska coach Scott Frost said. "He made a lot of great plays late."
Instead, Recinos led his teammates around a drenched Kinnick Stadium in a celebration so raucous that Ferentz wound up with a large cut on his cheek courtesy of quarterback Nate Stanley's facemask.
Iowa's supporters then gladly waited in their yellow ponchos to shuffle out of the stadium, cheerfully signing along as "Who'll Stop The Rain" by Credence Clearwater Revival pumped through the speakers.
"I wish it was a little cleaner. But, I mean, to send the seniors out with a win, you can't ask for anything more," Iowa defensive lineman Anthony Nelson said.
Martinez threw for 260 yards and two TDs to lead Nebraska (4-8, 3-6), which went 0-5 on the road in 2018. The Huskers played without injured star wide receiver J.D. Spielman for the second week in a row.
Iowa outgained Nebraska in total yards with 419 yards (153 pass, 266 rush) to 400 yards (260 pass, 140 rush). Nebraska committed one turnover to Iowa's none. Iowa held the advantage in time of possession, 34:41 to 25:19.
In the win, Nate Stanley was 16-of-27 for 152 yards with 2 TDs. Mekhi Sargent had 26 carries for 173 yards and a TD whle Toren Young added 83 yards rushing and a TD on 18 carries. Tight end T.J. Hockenson was the team's leading tight end with five catches for 54 yards, one of seven Hawkeye receivers with a reception in the win.
For the Huskers, Adrian Martinez was 26-of-38 for 260 yards with 2 TDs and an INT while also leading the team in rushing with 17 carries for 76 yards and a TD. Devine Ozigbo added 10 carries for 50 yards. Maurice Washington was the team's leading receiver with seven catches for 102 yards and a TD. Stanley Morgan Jr. also caught seven passes for 81 yards while tight end Jack Stoll caught the other TD pass with four receptions for 37 yards.
#19/#20 Iowa (8-3, 5-3) at Nebraska (5-6, 3-5)
When: Friday, November 29 | 1:30 p.m. (CT)
Where: Memorial Stadium | Lincoln, NE
TV: Big Ten Network (Kevin Kugler, Matt Millen, Lisa Byington)
Radio: Husker Sports Network (Greg Sharpe, Matt Davison, Ben McLaughlin)
Satellite Radio: Sirius (Ch. 135) | XM (Ch. 195)
Internet Audio: Huskers.com | TuneIn.com
This Week's Numbers
3 - Junior receiver JD Spielman owns three of the top 10 receiving yardage seasons in school history, including his 864 yards this season which ranks seventh on the season chart. Spielman is the only receiver in school history with three 800-yard receiving seasons.
22 - Nebraska will honor 22 players before the start of Friday's game in Senior Day activities at Memorial Stadium. The group includes seven players who have made 15 or more career starts.
30 - Nebraska has played on the Friday after Thanksgiving for 30 consecutive seasons. In each of the past nine years, the matchup has been against Iowa. NU played Oklahoma on Black Friday from 1990 to 1995, and Colorado from 1996 to 2010.
The Matchup
Nebraska completes its 2019 regular season on Friday afternoon with its traditional Thanksgiving Friday matchup with Big Ten West rival Iowa. Game time from Memorial Stadium is set for 1:30 p.m. CT with television coverage provided by BTN. The game can be heard on the Husker Sports Network from Learfield-IMG.
Nebraska will enter the game with a 5-6 record, following a 54-7 victory over Maryland on Saturday in College Park. The 47-point margin of victory was Nebraska's largest against a Big Ten opponent in its nine seasons in the conference. The Husker offense continued to find a late-season stride, rolling up more than 500 yards, including more than 200 yards both rushing and passing for the third time in four games.
Nebraska needs a victory in the Heroes Game matchup in order to become bowl eligible for the first time since the 2016 season. The Huskers will also be looking for their first win over Iowa since a victory in Iowa City in 2014.
Iowa will come to Lincoln with an 8-3 overall record and a 5-3 record in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes are ranked 19th in the Associated Press Poll and No. 20 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Iowa has won its past two games heading into the regular-season finale, including a 19-10 victory over Illinois on Saturday in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes boast one of the nation's top defenses, allowing just 306.1 yards and 12.2 points per game. Iowa has not allowed an opponent to score more than 24 points and has limited five teams to 10 points for fewer.
Series History
Nebraska and Iowa will meet for the ninth straight year in the regular season finale on Friday at Memorial Stadium. Before joining the Big Ten in 2011, the teams met 41 times as non-conference opponents, including 14 games between 1930 and 1946. Nebraska and Iowa also met four straight years from 1979 to 1982, and the final matchups as non-conference opponents were in 1999 and 2000.
This year's meeting will mark the ninth straight year that Nebraska and Iowa will meet on the day after Thanksgiving. After a two-year break from the Black Friday matchup between the schools in 2020 and 2021, Nebraska and Iowa are scheduled to resume their post-Thanksgiving matchup in 2022.
Nebraska had an eight-game win streak in the series and a pair of five-game win streaks. Iowa's current four-game win streak is its longest in the series.
Nebraska leads the all-time series 29-17-3 and leads 14-5-1 in games played in Lincoln.
Series History
1891 - Iowa 22, Nebraska 0 (Omaha)
1892 - Nebraska 10, Iowa 10 (Omaha)
1893 - Nebraska 20, Iowa 18 (Omaha)
1894 - Nebraska 36, Iowa 0 (Omaha)
1895 - Nebraska 6, Iowa 0 (Omaha)
1896 - Nebraska 0, Iowa 0 (Omaha)
1896 - Iowa 6, Nebraska 0 (Omaha)
1897 - Nebraska 6, Iowa 0 (Council Bluffs)
1898 - Iowa 6, Nebraska 5 (Council Bluffs)
1899 - Iowa 30, Nebraska 0 (Omaha)
1903 - Nebraska 17, Iowa 6 (Iowa City)
1904 - Nebraska 17, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1908 - Nebraska 11, Iowa 8 (Iowa City)
1909 - Nebraska 6, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1913 - Nebraska 12, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1914 - Nebraska 16, Iowa 7 (Iowa City)
1915 - Nebraska 52, Iowa 7 (Lincoln)
1916 - Nebraska 34, Iowa 17 (Iowa City)
1917 - Nebraska 47, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1918 - Iowa 12, Nebraska 0 (Lincoln)
1919 - Iowa 18, Nebraska 0 (Iowa City)
1930 - Iowa 12, Nebraska 7 (Iowa City)
1931 - Nebraska 7, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1932 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 13 (Iowa City)
1933 - Nebraska 7, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1934 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 13 (Lincoln)
1937 - Nebraska 28, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1938 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 0 (Iowa City)
1940 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1941 - Nebraska 14, Iowa 13 (Lincoln)
1942 - Iowa 27, Nebraska 0 (Iowa City)
1943 - Iowa 33, Nebraska 13 (Lincoln)
1944 - Iowa 27, Nebraska 6 (Iowa City)
1945 - Nebraska 13, Iowa 6 (Lincoln)
1946 - Iowa 21, Nebraska 7 (Iowa City)
1979 - #7 Nebraska 24, Iowa 21 (Iowa City)
1980 - #6 Nebraska 57, Iowa 0 (Lincoln)
1981 - Iowa 10, #7 Nebraska 7 (Iowa City)
1982 - #3 Nebraska 42, Iowa 7 (Lincoln)
1999 - #5 Nebraska 42, Iowa 7 (Iowa City)
2000 - #1 Nebraska 42, Iowa 13 (Lincoln)
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2011 - #22 Nebraska 20, Iowa 7 (Lincoln)
2012 - #17 Nebraska 13, Iowa 7 (Iowa City)
2013 - Iowa 38, Nebraska 17 (Lincoln)
2014 - Nebraska 37, Iowa 34 (OT) (Iowa City)
2015 - #3 Iowa 28, Nebraska 20 (Lincoln)
2016 - Iowa 40, #16 Nebraska 10 (Iowa City)
2017 - Iowa 56, Nebraska 14 (Lincoln)
2018 - Iowa 31, Nebraska 28 (Iowa City)
Nebraska Continues Thanksgiving Friday Tradition
Nebraska will continue its long-standing tradition of playing on the day after Thanksgiving. This Friday's game with Iowa will mark the 30th consecutive season the Huskers have played on Thanksgiving Friday.
NU met Oklahoma in the final six seasons of the Big Eight Conference (1990 to 1995), then played Colorado in all 15 of the Huskers' Big 12 Conference years (1996 to 2010), before taking on Iowa each of the past nine seasons.
Nebraska will close the 2020 and 2021 seasons against Minnesota on Black Friday, before Iowa returns as the opponet for the regular season finale beginning in 2022.
• Nebraska owns a 19-10 record since 1990 in games on the day after Thanksgiving, including a 5-1 record against Oklahoma, an 11-4 mark against Colorado and a 3-5 mark against Iowa.
• Nebraska is 10-5 at home in Black Friday games since 1990, including 1-3 against the Hawkeyes.
• In addition to the past eight years, Nebraska and Iowa also closed the regular season against each other nine times from 1892 to 1916.
Huskers to Honor Seniors on Friday
Nebraska will hold its Senior Day festivities before Friday's game, honoring 22 players who will appear in Memorial Stadium for the final time against Iowa.
The group includes 14 fifth-year seniors, including seven players who will likely leave Nebraska as four-year letterwinners.
• The 2019 senior class has players from 12 states, including seven native Nebraskans.
• The 22-man senior class has accumulated a total of 219 starts in their collegiate careers. The group has six players with at least 15 starts at Nebraska including defensive lineman Carlos Davis (35), cornerback Lamar Jackson (35), linebacker Mohamed Barry (25), long snapper Chase Urbach (21), linebacker Alex Davis (20) and punter Isaac Armstrong (18).
• Seniors on the Nebraska offense have made a total of just 13 career starts at Nebraska.
• Linebacker Mohamed Barry will finish his career in the top 15 on the Nebraska career tackles chart.
• Cornerback Lamar Jackson will end his career in the top 10 in school history in pass breakups.
• Twin brothers, Carlos and Khalil Davis, are the seventh set of brothers in NU history to each record at least 100 career tackles.
• Fifteen of Nebraska's 22 seniors are playing the 2019 season as graduate students, with another five players set to graduate in December.
2019 Nebraska Football Senior Class
Avery Anderson (S), Surprise, AZ
Fyn Anderson (DL), Lincoln, NE
Isaac Armstrong (P), Lincoln, NE
Mohamed Barry (LB), Grayson, GA
Darrion Daniels (DL), Dallas, TX
Alex Davis (LB), Riviera Beach, FL
Carlos Davis (DL), Blue Springs, MO
Khalil Davis (DL), Blue Springs, MO
Austin Hemphill (RB), Gretna, NE
Lamar Jackson (CB), Elk Grove, CA
Reid Karel (S), Seward, NE
Eric Lee Jr. (S), Milton, MA
Wyatt Mazour (RB), Albion, NE
DaiShon Neal (DL), Houston, TX
Kanawai Noa (WR), Honolulu, HI
Jeremiah Stovall (CB), Omaha, NE
Chase Urbach (LS), Grosse Pointe, MI
Vaha Vainuku (DL), Salt Lake City, UT
Nick Virka (OL), Morse Bluff, NE
Jackson Walker (P), Overland Park, KS
Mike Williams (WR), Lake City, FL
Jaron Woodyard (WR), Gaithersburg, MD
About Iowa Football
Iowa has fielded a football team since 1889 and has an all-time record of 658-560-39. The Hawkeyes have a bowl record of 16-15-1. Most recently, Iowa beat No. 18 Mississippi State 27-22 in the Outback Bowl following the 2018 season. Iowa claims five national titles, most recently in 1960. The Hawkeyes have won 11 Big Ten titles, most recently in 2004. Iowa also won the Big Ten West Division in 2015. Iowa has produced 27 consensus All-Americans and 223 first-team All-Big Ten selections.
First Season: 1889
All-Time Record: 658-560-39
Big Ten Titles: 11
National Titles: 5
Stadium: Kinnick Stadium
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Enrollment: 32,948
School Colors: Black & Gold
2019 Iowa Schedule (8-3)
Miami (OH) (W 38-14)
Rutgers (W 30-0)
at Iowa State (W 18-17)
Middle Tennessee State (W 48-3)
at Michigan (L 3-10)
Penn State (L 12-17)
Purdue (W 26-20)
at Northwestern (W 20-0)
at Wisconsin (L 22-24)
Minnesota (W 23-19)
Illinois (W 19-10)
at Nebraska
Iowa is coming off a 19-10 win over Illinois. Quarterback Nate Stanley threw for a season-high 308 yards and the Hawkeye defense forced three turnovers in the win.
Stanley is averaging 239.9 passing yards per game and has through 14 touchdowns this season. His top target is Ihmir Smith-Marsette, who has 654 yards and four touchdowns. On the ground, Mekhi Sargent leads the team with 488 yards and four touchdowns.
The Hawkeyes rank first in the conference and sixth in the country in red zone offense, having scored 35 times on 37 attempts (95 percent) this season.
On defense Kristian Welch has a team-high 70 total tackles, including 38 solo stops. A.J. Epenesa has a team-best 7.0 sacks and is adding 8.5 tackles for loss.
About Kirk Ferentz
Kirk Ferentz is in his 21st season at Iowa and sports a record of 160-104 with the Hawkeyes and is 172-125 overall in his 24th season as a head coach. Ferentz is 5-5 in his career against Nebraska. Ferentz graduated in 1978 from the University of Connecticut where he played linebacker. Upon graduation he served as a grad assistant coach at UConn and in the high school ranks before taking an assistant coaching position at Pittsburgh. He then served as offensive line coach at Iowa from 1981 through 1989 and then was named the head coach at Maine (1990-1992). Following his stint at Maine, Ferentz served as an offensive line coach in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns (1993-1995) and the Baltimore Ravens (1996-1998) before being named Iowa's head coach in 1999.
Last Meeting: November 23, 2018
Iowa 31, Nebraska 28
IOWA CITY, IA - The easy field goal that coach Kirk Ferentz didn't have to fake nearly cost Iowa the game.
The kick the Hawkeyes had to make wound up rescuing them from a devastating defeat -- and saved Ferentz from getting excoriated from frustrated Iowa fans.
Miguel Recinos drilled a 41-yard field goal through a driving rain as time expired and Iowa beat Nebraska 31-28 on Friday despite blowing a 15-point lead in the second half.
Mekhi Sargent ran for a career-high 173 yards and scored twice for the Hawkeyes (8-4, 5-4 Big Ten), who have won four straight over the Cornhuskers for the first time.
"For us, this is a black and gold Friday," Ferentz joked.
The Hawkeyes came within inches of making it a black and blue Friday.
Iowa made the risky decision to fake a field goal at Nebraska's 3-yard line up 28-13 late in the third quarter. It failed, and it led to a 98-yard scoring drive from the Huskers to make it 28-20 with 13:57 to go.
"We were going for the kill. Simple as that," Ferentz said about holder Colten Rastetter's pass to T.J. Hockenson, which was stopped a yard short. "We felt like we could really push this thing through."
Adrian Martinez then ran it from 3 yards out with 3:22 left, and he used his feet to stay alive long enough to find Kade Warner -- son of NFL Hall of Famer Kurt Warner -- in the back of the end zone to tie it up.
But Hockenson found redemption with a 10-yard catch on a fourth-and-8 with 42 seconds to go. Recinos also came through on a last chance to redeem himself, putting it through the uprights after missing a 37-yarder with 7:54 left at the same end of the field.
"I kind of had a feeling after I missed that one that they were going to score again," Recinos said. "Right after the miss I just reset and just back in it to try and make that kick."
Sargent scored late in the second quarter on a 15-yard run and early in the third on a 5-yard pass from Nate Stanley to help the Hawkeyes jump ahead 28-13.
It felt like another easy wins over the Huskers was in order. But Nebraska and Martinez, their brilliant freshman quarterback, displayed some impressive resilience in nearly pulling off the comeback stunner.
"Adrian Martinez showed us that he's fearless," Nebraska coach Scott Frost said. "He made a lot of great plays late."
Instead, Recinos led his teammates around a drenched Kinnick Stadium in a celebration so raucous that Ferentz wound up with a large cut on his cheek courtesy of quarterback Nate Stanley's facemask.
Iowa's supporters then gladly waited in their yellow ponchos to shuffle out of the stadium, cheerfully signing along as "Who'll Stop The Rain" by Credence Clearwater Revival pumped through the speakers.
"I wish it was a little cleaner. But, I mean, to send the seniors out with a win, you can't ask for anything more," Iowa defensive lineman Anthony Nelson said.
Martinez threw for 260 yards and two TDs to lead Nebraska (4-8, 3-6), which went 0-5 on the road in 2018. The Huskers played without injured star wide receiver J.D. Spielman for the second week in a row.
Iowa outgained Nebraska in total yards with 419 yards (153 pass, 266 rush) to 400 yards (260 pass, 140 rush). Nebraska committed one turnover to Iowa's none. Iowa held the advantage in time of possession, 34:41 to 25:19.
In the win, Nate Stanley was 16-of-27 for 152 yards with 2 TDs. Mekhi Sargent had 26 carries for 173 yards and a TD whle Toren Young added 83 yards rushing and a TD on 18 carries. Tight end T.J. Hockenson was the team's leading tight end with five catches for 54 yards, one of seven Hawkeye receivers with a reception in the win.
For the Huskers, Adrian Martinez was 26-of-38 for 260 yards with 2 TDs and an INT while also leading the team in rushing with 17 carries for 76 yards and a TD. Devine Ozigbo added 10 carries for 50 yards. Maurice Washington was the team's leading receiver with seven catches for 102 yards and a TD. Stanley Morgan Jr. also caught seven passes for 81 yards while tight end Jack Stoll caught the other TD pass with four receptions for 37 yards.
