Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - STATEMENT: Iowa Hawkeyes Defeat Ranked Vanderbilt, Kirk Ferentz Ends Streak, CELEBRATES Big WIN

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

Iowa Hawkeyes snap their ranked opponent losing streak, stunning No. 15 Vanderbilt in the ReliaQuest Bowl with Mark Gronowski’s clutch performance and a statement win over the SEC. Can Kirk Ferentz���s squad build on this momentum for future seasons?Trent Condon breaks down Iowa’s gritty 34-27 victory, spotlighting Gronowski’s game-changing runs, DJ Vonnahme breakout receiving day, and Kamari Moulton’s consistency on the ground. Insights include Ferentz setting the Big Ten record for bowl wins, key defensive stops by TJ Hall and Karson Sharar, and the potential impact of the impending transfer portal window. The recap covers offensive innovations, tight end depth, and how the team’s resilience might shape the coming years.Will the Hawkeyes’ revamped strategy translate to a return to national prominence?Follow Trent Condon on X: https://twitter.com/trentcondonLISTEN TO THE PODCAST: APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/locked-on-hawkeyes-daily-podcast-on-iowa-hawkeyes-football/id1441592240SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0GTyz5ygevcGXdTF6QSoEoYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnHawkeyesEverydayer ClubIf you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.RugietIf you’ve been thinking about taking the next step, now’s the time.Head to https://Rugiet.com/LOCKEDONCOLLEGE to get 15% off your order for a limited time.Rugiet Ready. Feel present. Feel confident. Feel ready. FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Stop the presses, I would just shock the SEC. The Hawkeyes take down ranked Vanderbilt in the RelyQuest Bowl, snapping the losing streak against ranked opponents and ending the season with a statement win. Today we talk about how Kirk Parenthoods and Company pulled off the upset victory. You are Locked on Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Hey, welcome in. I'm Trent Condon, and this is the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast.

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Game Time. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use code Lockdown College for $20 off, your first purchase. Well, today it is going to be a lot of football as we react to what we just saw. A little instant reaction for you here as Iowa gets the win over Vanderbilt

3427. A little bit later on, we're going to talk about what we're going to look back upon this season. And as we get more distance, how this season is going to be remembered ending in a 9 and 4 record, more big picture stories we're going to look at. Obviously, we're going to go through the game. We'll take a look at the stats and the numbers that came out of this one. But let's just react here with the feelings of what we have and getting this bowl victory against Vanderbilt. A team that did not have a bunch of opt-outs, a team short of their outstanding tight end, Eli Stowers was all there. And though there will be

many in the media that will try to make you believe that this team game didn't matter. They were sad. They didn't make the playoff. They really didn't care about this one. Don't buy into that garbage. It's crap. It is not true. This team wanted to be there.

And I would beat him. I would beat them because they're a better team. And though Vanderbilt was a top 15 ranked team, Vanderbilt at 10 and 2 coming out of the supposed rugged SEC thought they should have been a playoff team. We saw once again just how close this Iowa team was this season and how the Big Ten as a whole is a lot deeper conference than anybody at the four-letter network of ESPN wants to give them credit to. That's big picture stuff. We'll get to that later. Move that to the side. Early in the game, once again, we got to see something absolutely tremendous for Mark Bernowski.

And as we watched him throughout the course of this season, the third downplay, nothing there, looks like he's going to get sacked, gets out of it, eludes a rusher, splits a couple of defenders, and then races for 44 yards. And we've seen this guy, this big lumbering quarterback, just changed so much of what we've seen in the running game for Iowa and what we can expect for a quarterback now going forward.

That is something that I think when we talk about those big picture, things. That's what Mark Grinowski has brought us. We go from last year and getting to see Brendan Sullivan at times and seeing with somebody with the dynamic running ability what that can unleash and unlock with this Iowa offense. And now I believe it's a necessity. It is a must going forward for Iowa and the structure that they have with Kirk Farrant at the helm. Tim Lester is the offensive corner. The way that they're built, it is a must to have a quarterback that is a plus runner. That is a good run. runner. Not a guy that can move around a little bit. And not a guy even like Nate Stanley. Really good on quarterback sneaks, but that was basically it. Yeah, he could step forward and run and pick up a first down on third and six. If nothing's there, we're talking about a runner. Having a runner.

Now, the next level is finding that guy that is both a runner and an elite level passer. But today, Mark Grodowski did something that we haven't seen in almost two seasons of football. You have to go all the way back to game number one of the two. 2004 season. The last time that Iowa had a quarterback throw for 200 yards in the game. That's right. All the way back to Illinois State in 2024, the opener in that one, when Kate McNamara did it. That is the last time we've seen a quarterback throw for 200 yards in a game. How about, well, that was an FCS team. We got to go back then to 2003 against Rutgers the last time that an Iowa quarterback did that against FBS competition.

that's how long it's been. And Grinowski was pretty sharp, overall, really solid. The throws, the touchdown throw, absolutely incredible. And the interception, obviously, was not his fault. So as Iowa races out to the 7-0 lead, they get the score, march right down the field. Grinowski's play on third down, a huge part of that, molten into the end zone, they're off and running. They get a stop, get the ball back. And it looked like after the big play by DJ Venami, who you talk about a star being born.

We'll get to that a little bit later on. You go from that aspect of things. You're down there, another big play this time through the passing game. You're at the four-yard line. And here's the other part. I know the play call. You got your more bruising back in Xavier Williams, who's in the four-yard line. who's in the slot, the play was wide open.

The play design by Tim Lester was perfect. The play call was perfect. It was, I get, a guy didn't execute. And you can say that Tim Lester shouldn't put his big running back at that spot. The play was there. It's a play the Xavier Williams, I'm sure we'll say he needs to make. And I think he will make going forward. Now, I was, of course, hollering, just run the ball as they were powerful.

outing him early on, but there were so many moments during the course of this football game where it felt like Iowa potentially could let it slip away. And maybe it's that scar tissue that as Hawkeye fans have dealt with over the last four or five years during this losing streak, certainly against ranked teams, where you see it slip away. I know Iowa historically had been so good working with the lead until they haven't been. And we look at the lead slip away of what happened against USC, maybe the biggest one. obviously they'll lead late against Oregon and not being able to get the stop.

Last couple of years against Iowa State, I think are great examples as well, where Iowa has not played from ahead like they once did, and you knew Pavia and Vanderbilt was going to keep coming. You know, the squad was not going to quit, that they were going to continue to go out there, even if their fans say that they didn't really want to be there.

No, you knew Vandy was going to continue. They were going to continue to play, to fight. That's who the dude is. And they did. And they were taking shots, and they had us nervous, but Iowa found a way. They found a way. They made the plays. They got the ball back.

And with it, it was a well-designed play call on what proved to be the winning play to get the first down on the short yardage. They run that quarterback sneak, got the tight end coming across. He's going to show Grinowski in the back. They'll get the first down. They run it on the goal line. They run it third, fourth, and one all throughout the course of the season. Look like it was there.

Nope, boom, little end, slip around, hand it to the running pack and get the first down and salt the victory away in that one. A lot to get into, a lot of angles, a lot of plays want to talk about, want to talk about the players, want to go deeper into Mark Gordowski. We got a ton here. We react to the Iowa victory as they get it done 3427 over Vanderbilt. We got a whole lot more coming your way, including the MVP, Mark Grodowski, of the Reliq Quest Bowl.

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podcast and thanks for making lockdown hawkeyes your first listen of the day let's start with the quarterback mark grunowski we've already talked about him quite a bit the throw on the flea flicker how beautiful is that i talked about some of the passes divot to me across the middle want to see more of that i don't know how many times during the course of this season i whined complained just vented to you guys out there. Can we see a seam route? Can we see something in the middle of the field? Can we do something with these tight ends? And DJ Vonamy, definitely the case. Back to Grinowski, that throw that he made to Votamie on the play, on the flea flicker play, the throw that he made on the sideline after they got the ball back at the 10-yard line

after the illegal kick, and how crazy that was. Those are great throws. And those are throws that we just didn't see a whole lot. during the course of the season. Gordowski, we see with health, the shoulder surgery that he sustained, the surgery that he had to have after he committed to Iowa. This dude then had the big entry against Indiana, and he was never completely right. I don't know if he's physically close to that level.

Regardless, we saw maybe what could have been. What could have been if we got a full season, a full health, of Mark Garnowski. And that in a way leaves that sour taste in your mouth for this season at 9 and 4. Four losses by a combined 15 points because they were that close. And with just a little bit more health,

what could have been. Here we are. And here we are talking about a team that gets it done, ends the losing streak, and Mark Garnowski a big part of that. Speaking of Grinowski, I love this number. He ties shoelace. Denard Robinson for the most rushing touchdowns by a Big Ten quarterback in history of the Big Ten.

I mean, I've been to play football a long time. Been a lot of guys, a lot of guys that ran the ball, a whole lot more back then than they do now. And Mark Grinowski getting to that rarefied air. How about another number that comes out of this game? Kirk Barron's becoming the winningest bowl coach in Big Ten history, breaking a tie that he had with Joe Paterno. Good to see him for a myriad of reasons, jump ahead of Paterno. But getting that, how about getting a winning record in Tampa?

We know Kirk Farrantz loves all bowl games. He says there's no such thing as a bad bull game. Though if you're on the sideline for that pinstripe bowl and the freezing temperatures against Boston College, what, a decade back, maybe you'd have some different ideas. That aside, he now has a winning record in Tampa, a place that we has almost become synonymous with Iowa football. Kurt Farrant's, a guy that has done it, done at a level. and as we talked about different times this year I think the criticism

had become at times a bit unfair on Kirk and the record against the Big Ten excuse me against ranked teams yes they had a losing streak but if you saw those games this year you know just how close that they were and I don't think that told the whole thing that's taking a small narrative

and not looking at things at a big picture and certainly what we try to do here on Lockdown Hawkeyes a couple more things from this one and talked about bottomy let me take a sneak peek back of my notes and we'll get into the actual numbers of things as we can pull them back up here we go um oh yeah i did mention the illegal punt i watch a lot of football i'm sure everybody out there probably does as well do you remember seeing that i don't and when they said a five-yard penalty at first i just thought it was going to be a five-yard penalty from where the kick went and uh where we're Riechin, what, I think it was kicked out of bounce, regardless.

Yeah, it was out of bounds. I'm like, that's kind of crappy, right? They don't have to re-quick. No, no, no. Iowa gets the ball at the 10, right to Vander Z. Boom, a touchdown on that one. So that was one of the wilder things that you're going to see, definitely for this one. Here's a couple others.

And a couple of things that certainly bear mentioning before we get into the numbers of the Iowa victory here. One more thing in Grinowski. And we talk about the throws. the running ability tying a record in Big Ten for rushing. Touched out. All great things. Great dude. It became a leader right away. You could see it was not that fake

leadership, that full leadership that maybe they had from a past quarterback that transferred in from Michigan. Guy that quit on his team. Not like that. Like a real dude. Not fake. Real. Mark Grinowski was real. And the stories of his brother, and as a former special needs teacher,

it absolutely tugs at the heartstrings. and love, love those kind of stories. But that aside, there was a play. I was up 7.3. Should have been up 14.0. They're not. Okay. And backside blitz comes.

And I think it was lout. Just missed on the guy out there regardless of that. Ball comes out from behind. Sure fire. Bandy's getting the ball. I mean, they fell right on it, right? And Mark Rodowski yanks that ball away as it's on the turf and it's late. there and I don't know what other

135 or so starting quarterbacks at the FBS level how many of those dudes are going to sacrifice their throwing arm their body as a quarterback in a bowl game that people I know called meaningless how many of them are sticking their arm out and going to get that ball how many of them are doing that it shows you toughness want leadership Just all the intangibles that you can't measure. I'm going to love this dude.

And certainly going to miss Mark Grinowski. It was just for a year. As said earlier, would like to see a full season of Mark Grinowski with full health. We will not get that. But that play definitely bears mentioning. We will go back and we will rewatch this whole thing again. That's what we do here.

Now, that's normally during the course of a regular season. We do that on Sunday night and have that for you on Monday for you in your inbox. Not going to be the case in this one. We will go back and watch it, though, and we'll kind of see scheduling-wise how we're going to do things. And we got a few extras for you as well right now on Locked-on Hawkeyes. If you haven't already, I want you to go check out our new Every Dare Club. See if this is something for you.

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Iowa finishes just shy of 400 yards in total offense, 379 yards of offense. We talked about going over 200 yards passing for the first time in a long time. Trying to do the math here on the fly. What is that? 25 games. 167 rush yards in the game. Iowa with five penalties.

But if you listened to our preview episode yesterday, I mentioned the other side. And I told you guys, Vandy, they're going to woof. And they're going to talk, and they won't shut up. And that was certainly the case. As they were talking all game long, they were trying to get in the heads. There were some protections of Pavia. Yes, absolutely.

Some questionable calls as it pertain to protecting the Heisman runner-up. Alas, five penalties, high for certainly Iowa. 19 first downs in the game. Six of 12 on third down. On the other side, this is another big aspect we talked about yesterday on the show. way you got to watch every day and we are your everyday Iowa Hawkeye podcast 6 and 12 on third down the Vanderbilt defense not very good on third and how about this vandy just two of nine on third down in this one Iowa 59 plays against 60 for Vanderbilt they're right there across the board

win time of possession with over 32 minutes of time of possession in the football game four sex what three of them came in the first half or was it all four three I believe it was five for loss in the game. Individually, Grinowski, 16 to 22, 212 yards. That looks so good on the screen. Two touchdowns and one interception, 73% completion percentage for Grinowski in this one.

Kamari Moulton, of course he didn't get to 100 yards because we know he's going to be somewhere between 70 and 95 yards, and he gets to 95 in this one and a touchdown, the extra rushing touchdown, as he mentioned for Grinowski, as he helps out, Xavier Williams, 5 for 25 in the game, receiving DJ Vonami. Dude, seven catches, 146 yards in a touchdown along of 51. He was all over the place, up the sea, making plays.

And here we go. We got to see a little bit of Thomas Meyer. Oh, by the way, Addison Estrangea's coming back next year. And there's depth in that tight end room, tight and emerging back at Iowa. And we start to rub our hands together a little bit on that one. Reese Van der Z, so good, body control, ability to make contested catches. Now, speaking of health, let's get a full healthy season for 15 going into next year. Good to see Jacob Gill in his final Hawkeye game.

He goes out with a couple of catches in this one. Dayton Howard also with the catch, one from Ortworth on a little swing out at the tight end spot. Also, I believe, with another year of eligibility in that one. So those are some of the numbers for you offensively. Let's take a look also here at the defensive numbers for Iowa. T.J. Hall led the way with eight tackles. Also, two past breakups in that. Had a couple of dropped interceptions.

That was another component we didn't talk about across the course of the game. Number of dropped interceptions for Iowa. This thing could have been even uglier than that. Also, eight tackles for Jaden Montgomery thought he played pretty well overall. Xavier Wappell was seven, also seven for Watson, the freshman, who got the start, no Deshaun Lee out there. So it was Watson that got the call. All right.

Good learning experience. Saw those wide receivers get behind him a couple of times. But I know they're really excited. And it sounds like he was a guy that emerged. Carson Shire, especially early when he was spying Pavia. The two sacks that he had, just tremendous. And not just sacked him. He popped him a couple of times.

Lutmer finishes with three tackles, entering her with four, a couple other names to mention. Oh, a sack and a half for Hercut. and my guy, Brian Allen, he gets a half sack as he teamed up with Hercid on one of those sacks in the game defensively. Aaron Graves just one tackle, but he was impactful. They got it done.

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did it look like if he bounced that out to the right as you were watching it on TV? Could have gone? It looked like there might have been a scene there. Now, hard to tell, obviously, on television what was out there overall. But Wichin doing his thing. I love this team. Enjoyed this team so much. And that's something that's different.

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Download the GameTime app today. We continue on, Lockton Hawkeyes podcast, as an instant reaction after Iowa's 34-24-27 victory over Vanderbilt, the losing streak against ranked teams is over. Iowa and 9-4, likely to be ranked probably inside the top 20 of the final poll of the regular season. Another great finish for Kirk Barron. Speaking of a nine-win seasons, it's a bit of a rarity.

Chet Leisdikow in his column after this one went final, had something I thought pretty interesting overall. I'm talking about the 9 of 4 records that matches 2008 and 2018. We know what happened after 2008. We also look at the point differential. He has that in the article. Basically, looking through this and he looked at the strength of schedule that they had this year, showing how good this Iowa team was. Yes, we have brought this up a lot of different times.

I go back to 2008. And every day, as you've heard me, make this point before. I think the reason that the 2008 team is still so revered, what some people would consider a hoom nine and four season. Two reasons. A, what they were able to do in a big upset win against Penn State. that game with all the green in the stands, I mean, it reverberated.

It felt different. It felt special in what it meant in the grand scheme of things, not just for Iowa football, but also as it pertains to the national perspective. And I think if Iowa would have had a win like that against Oregon or maybe even bigger against Indiana and gave the Hoosiers their only loss to this point, probably would feel a little bit different.

And I think I'd be easier to equate those. But here's the other reason. I think that maybe the most important reason that 2008 is revered is because of what happened in 2009. They get off to the 9 and no start. They're ranked. They're on the Sports Illustrated cover.

They had all those extra elements that were there. And that's what made 2008 beloved because of what happened in 2009. Going to the Orange Bowl, an Orange Bowl victory, being a whisker way for winning a Big Ten championship, even with the entry to your quarterback and Ricky Stansey in the Northwestern game.

There was so much. But that 2018 got there. And it's not to say that I think that next year's Iowa team is going to start 9 and 0 and going to be ranked third in the country because I don't. However, if it leads to a special year, if they build on this and losing 27 seniors, it's going to be difficult to do that. But if this is a step in the process, and maybe not even next year, but within, say, the next couple of years, if that happens, then this team is going to be even more revered.

I said it earlier. I just love watching this team. And I know the offense, the passing offense, didn't get to the level that I certainly expected them this year. There are reasons for that. Grinowski's injuries, probably the biggest. There's definite reasons, though, that it played out in that fashion. But they were enjoyable.

Although the passing game wasn't elite, there just seemed to be more there. There are more opportunities. It didn't feel like so many times in different points in the last five years where, all right, how are they going to grind out an ugly victory? They won, but it wasn't entertaining. And it is still entertainment.

I mean, that's what this is. The winds are great. And anybody that has listened to me for any period of time knows I am not going to talk down to victories. But this year, there was joy. And some of that joy had been sapped away at different moments. the joy of how are they going to do this again oh they did but okay the enjoyment was definitely back in a big time level I think we're going to remember this team very fondly

and we're going to have those conversations that I'm sure you're sitting on a bar stool with the buddy we're at the lake around the fire at the campsite afterwards you have these conversations maybe it's a family member it's a big hawk guy fan. Ah, yeah, that year. What would have happened if Frankie Stansy didn't get hurt that year? What would have happened if Brad Beck's hand had been wrapped a little too tightly,

maybe, against Iowa State? What would have happened in that game against UCLA in the 1986 Rose Bowl after the 85 season? If there weren't some guys with some fur coats, we'll play that game. and this will be another one of those teams that we'll talk about. What if Dr. Tom didn't go four corners for four minutes against UNLV? Yeah, that one still sticks. I think the most will be.

This team will have that, and it will be. What if Gernoski doesn't get entered against Indiana? What if Hank Brown completes a screen pass on third down against the Hoosiers? What if T.J. Hall's left arm goes two inches higher, and that balls deflected away? What if a myriad of different things against USC don't happen? What if? That's how this is going to be remembered. And as Hawkeye fans, we all have those.

And it doesn't matter the sport, football obviously being the biggest. But that's how I'm going to remember this team. A team that was enjoyable. A team that was fun. And a team that's going to leave us, what if? 9-4 is pretty good. Adding the streaks, 200 yards passing, wins against ranked teams. We move on from that.

And now we start to move forward because here's the thing. On Friday, the transfer portal opens. I know what feels like they're ready. This is going to be different than anything we've seen before in the transfer portal era. We got you covered here on Lockdown Hawkeyes. In the past, we had a couple of portal windows. In the past, you know, you know what? Maybe I am going to stick around.

Go through spring practice and see if I can find a spot of my team. It's not the case anymore. You have to make a decision now. Unless you're a graduate transfer, you have to make that decision now. I think there'll be some surprises. Maybe some names maybe didn't anticipate are going to be there. That is what is the reality. There's a lot of fun.

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