IOWA CITY — On a third-and-10 from Albany’s 16-yard line, Mark Gronowski took a shotgun snap from Logan Jones, set his feet and delivered his best throw of Saturday.

The spiraling football beautifully found Jacob Gill with precise timing near the left sideline, and the senior scooted out of bounds for a 13-yard gain and a first down.

Amid Gronowski’s rough passing debut as an Iowa Hawkeye, that throw showed what he can do as a quarterback.

And those are the types of plays Iowa needs from Gronowski to give it a chance to knock off Iowa State in Ames in the Sept. 6 Cy-Hawk battle (11 a.m. CT, FOX).

“Once we actually started getting our rhythm going, we felt a lot better offensively,” Gronowski said. “I felt a little bit more settled into the game, and I felt like we started playing a l

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