Every single time the oddsmakers dare the perpetually low-scoring Iowa offense to score even fewer points, the Hawkeyes respond with an emphatic “can do!”
Before Friday’s regular season-ending contest between Iowa and Nebraska in Lincoln, the point total line for the game closed at 24.5. That was, by far, the lowest total in college football history since odds tracking began in 1995. It was also the third time this season an Iowa game broke the record.
Lo and behold, each time a Hawkeyes game set the record, the score went under. That was no different on Friday, when Iowa second string place kicker Marshall Meeder attempted a game-winner with time expiring on his first kick of the season.
Final score: Iowa 13, Nebraska 10.
Pour one out for the bettors at BetMGM, where Iowa-Nebraska over 25.5 points was the most-bet point total of the college slate this week.
The under has cashed in every CFB total below 32
U25.5: Iowa-Nebraska (2023)
U27.5: Iowa-Rutgers (2023)
U30.5: Iowa-Minnesota (2023)
U30.5: Navy-East Carolina (2023)
U31.5: Northwestern-Iowa (2023)
U31.5: Kentucky-Iowa (2022)
U31.5: Minnesota-Iowa (2022) pic.twitter.com/KPpFaqTThN— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) November 24, 2023
In 2023, a game like this doesn’t happen without some spectacularly bad football taking place. We’re talking the kind of football so bad it becomes delightfully entertaining. This isn’t just back-and-forth punts we’re talking about — though there were plenty of punts — this is pure college football chaos.
So let’s relive the glory and count all the improbable ways Iowa and Nebraska hit the lowest point under ever recorded.
