IOWA CITY — Iowa football and the two-point conversion play need to have a talk.

They haven’t gotten along well lately. Frankly, their relationship has been on the rocks for most of the last decade.

Maybe they just haven’t been spending enough time together. Whatever the reason, the Hawkeyes stink at two-point conversions, and it’s costing them games.

A failure on a two-point try with 1 minute, 51 seconds to go wound up being the final margin in an 18-16 loss to No. 9 Oregon on Nov. 8 at Kinnick Stadium. Last season, the Hawkeyes missed a third-quarter two-point try against Iowa State and ended up losing, 20-19. In both losses, the opponent hit a field goal in the final 10 seconds to win a game that directly took advantage of Iowa's two-point failures.

As a program, Iowa has miss

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