This was supposed to be a low scoring affair with the way Jesuit likes to keep the ball on the ground and run clock and with LO still breaking in a new QB. Cade Crist threw four touchdown passes and Thurston piled up 542 yards of total offense in the win. The Colts became the first Eugene-area team since 2000 to beat the Irish and also provided a boost to 5A programs across the state, which had regularly taken beatings when facing quality 6A opponents. Be sure to check out Jerry Ulmer’s comprehensive Football Notebook, published Sundays, for an in-depth look at all of Friday’s action from across the state.īeaten by 51 points last year when these teams met, defending 5A champion Thurston shocked 6A runner up Sheldon on the road, 34-19. Allow its legend to live forever.Every Friday night, we’ll offer you PATs, a few nuggets from the night that was. Just remove the base and repurpose it as a turnover prop. Unless it’s been smelted, this unsettling trophy has to be sitting around somewhere. Hawkeyes Looking To Keep The Current Incarnation 3 Years Running Tomorrow #Hawkeyes Wait, where are you going? I have an even worse idea before you leave. And what better way to capture the burgeoning Star Trek/college football crossover audience than an Iowa turnover phaser? Iowa is the birthplace of future USS Enterprise Captain James Tiberius Kirk. We suspect he has fewer scheduling conflicts. And whenever the Hawks force a turnover, Costner is sent crowd-surfing from one end of the bench to the other.īackup plan: Tom Arnold. Give Costner a sideline pass to every Iowa game, home and away. He combined those passions this summer as the emcee of MLB’s historic Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, so it’s time to strike the iron while it’s hot. Provided the turnover butter is never broken out before October. Really, the possibilities here are endless. There’s also a talented hive of butter carvers in Iowa. Or grab one of those cheap plastic numbers at a Spirit of Halloween, though that’s not nearly as fun.īutter is an essential Iowa object, and it underscores the fact that the opponents have butterfingers when playing the Hawkeyes. Just make the blade dull as a butter knife. If the sidelines are safe enough for Oregon State’s turnover chainsaw, they can be made safe enough for the Iowa turnover scythe.

I’m not entirely sure there’s a jeweler in Iowa capable of filling this order, but it’s possible I’m underrating the Quad Cities as a bling mecca. The same principle as the turnover chain, but with an Iowa twist - the jewel-encrusted portion wouldn’t be a Miami logo, but a corncob with a stone in the place of each individual kernel. Saturday Tradition humbly presents the following nominees for Iowa turnover prop: Iced-out corncob And since the stats say nobody’s better than Iowa, we must proceed. Iowa boasts of having the World’s Largest Truck Stop. And if anyone can appreciate hogwash, in the most literal sense, I suspect it would be Iowans. We don’t even end our sentences with exclamation points.” Iowa fans will likely balk at the idea, claiming “This is Iowa. And since the cool place to be for takeaways has shifted from Coral Gables to Iowa City, there’s only one option available. It’s time for someone else to pick up the turnover prop mantle.

But with Miami 104th in the country in takeaways, the turnover chain is a sad relic at this point. Yes, everyone is ripping off the Hurricanes. 3 ranking and legitimate College Football Playoff hopes, Iowa has nothing to show for all that success. The Hawkeyes are king, leading the nation with 12 interceptions and 16 total takeaways. From turnover chainsaws to turnover robes to turnover thrones to turnover Mardi Gras beads to turnover coal miner helmets, you’re hard-pressed to find a team that doesn’t celebrate takeaways by dancing around with some ridiculous object.Įxcept for the best team at forcing turnovers in college football: Iowa. Miami started the fad when it broke out the turnover chain in 2017, and plenty of others have attempted to put their own twist on it in the years since. These days, seemingly everyone has a turnover prop.

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