IOWA CITY, Iowa — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti already knows one of the plays he’ll be submitting to the Big Ten for review this week.
After IU's 20-15 win over Iowa , Cignetti walked reporters through the strange sequence at the end of the game that ultimately forced the offense into taking a safety as time expired on Saturday.
The No. 12 Hoosiers (5-0) forced a turnover on downs at midfield with 16 seconds left, but couldn't just kneel out the clock since Iowa still had all three of its timeouts left. More: Anatomy of a game-winner: How Indiana football dialed up a game-winner against Iowa
Cignetti installed a play, “victory delay”, for that very scenario where the quarterback simply walks backward to delay taking a knee in order to run more time off the clock. He used