Mark Gronowski ran for two touchdowns and threw for another and Iowa continued its dominance of Nebraska in a 40-16 win on Friday afternoon in a Big Ten game in Lincoln, Neb.
The Hawkeyes (8-4, 6-3 Big Ten) won for the 10th time in 11 meetings with their largest margin of victory in the series since 2017.
Gronowski, a sixth-year senior, extended his NCAA Division I record with his 57th win as a starting quarterback. He threw for 166 yards and a TD and ran for 64 with two scores, giving him 15 rushing TDs this season.
Kamari Moulton added 93 yards and two TDs for the Hawkeyes, who won for the seventh straight time at Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska (7-5, 4-5) lost for the third time in four games despite a career-high 217 rushing yards from Emmett Johnson. But 177 of that came in the first half as the Cornhuskers gained just 69 yards in the second half.
Up 24-16 at halftime, Iowa forced a fumble on a punt that resulted in a safety. Gronowski’s second rushing TD, a 6-yard run, put the Hawkeyes up 33-16 with 4:47 left in the third.
Moulton’s 1-yard run made it 40-16 with 13:40 to go.
A 70-yard run by Johnson set up his 1-yard score on the following play for a 7-0 Nebraska lead. Iowa responded with a 41-yard field goal by Drew Stevens and then took a 10-7 lead on a 35-yard TD catch by DJ Vonnahme.
Nebraska tied on a 31-yard field goal by Kyle Cunanan late in the first, and after the Cornhuskers recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff Cunanan hit from 29 for a 13-10 lead early in the second.
Iowa retook the lead on a 3-yard TD run by Moulton with 8:15 left in the first half. Cunanan hit his third field goal, from 35 yards out, to cut it to a 1-point game with 2:39 to go before halftime, only to see Gronowski score on a 1-yard run with 37 seconds remaining.
