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IOWA CITY — An Iowa quarterback passed for at least 1,929 yards in every season from 2000 through 2019.

It hasn’t happened since, and 1,929 passing yards over 12-plus games is closer to scaling Mount Vernon than Mount Kilimanjaro.

Through a combination of occasional lackluster coordination, occasional substandard blocking and consistently middling quarterbacking, the Hawkeyes’ offense sucked some of the joy out of the program’s annual winning seasons in the first half of the 2020s.

Enter Mark Gronowski . In the words of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Oh Happy Day . Unless you’re Albany, which lost to Gronowski-quarterbacked South Dakota State in the 2023 FCS national semifinals by the rather

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