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IOWA CITY — Kirk Ferentz may have been conservative before the term had political connotations.

This was the coach who once led the planet in punts from the other team’s 40-yard line. This was someone who probably always thought “risk/reward” was a strange concept.

Yet, at the end of the first half of his Iowa team’s game against Penn State that looked like it could had the potential to be decided by one critical mistake, Ferentz made one by being hyperaggressive that could have doomed his team to defeat.

Iowa was ahead 10-7 with the ball at the Penn State 48 with six seconds left in the half and Ferentz decided to have Drew Stevens try a 66-yard field goal.

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