.The Iowa Hawkeyes are stroking their cuts from a stunning 20-19 rivalry reduction versus the Iowa State Cyclones.Regardless of shutting out the Cyclones in the very first fifty percent as well as leading 13-0 at halftime, the Hawkeyes' unsatisfying second-half functionality left sightseers with a lot of concerns.Among those was Iowa head soccer instructor Kirk Ferentz's selection to select a two-point sale try out.After Iowa Condition scored its own 1st goal of the time with a 3-yard goal grab coming from senior Jayden Higgins along with 8:48 left behind in the 3rd fourth, Iowa responded with a 7-play, 79-yard travel that finished along with a 3-yard touchdown run from younger running back Kaleb Johnson.Along with the Hawkeyes leading 19-7 after Johnson's touchdown dive and also 4:47 continuing to be in the 3rd quarter, Ferentz and Iowa decided to try for a two-point transformation to possibly expand the Hawkeyes' trigger 21-7.The two-point shot stopped working as graduate quarterback Cade McNamara could not get in touch with fresher wide receiver Reece Vander Zee in the edge of the end area.Later on, Ferentz was actually asked them about his selection to try for the two-point sale." Yeah, I suggest, I presume perhaps the debate would certainly be actually is it prematurely, that type of factor. That put our company at 19-7. I believed it offered our team our finest odds to succeed the football activity, as well as to me the bigger concern is our team not at the very least obtaining one touchdown out of those pair of basket options. Our experts possessed the ball down inside there close. That is actually certainly a region we are actually visiting need to improve on," Ferentz mentioned.The logic for trying the two-point transformation attempt makes sense. Turn the two-point shot and also Iowa State would certainly have needed a pair of goals and also added lead to match the soccer activity.As An Alternative, Iowa Condition redshirt fresher kicker Kyle Konrardy's 54-yard field goal wound up as the game-winner rather than exemplifying a possible game-tying field goal try if the Hawkeyes had actually chosen for a dab make an effort earlier.Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X as well as like our webpage on Facebook to adhere to recurring coverage of Iowa information, details and point of views.Follow Josh on X:@JoshOnREF.