Following last week's gut-wrenching loss to the rival Iowa State Cyclones on the road, the Iowa Hawkeyes returned home with hopes of winning a 'get back' game a

Iowa Hawkeyes head coach Kirk Ferentz sighs as he watches his players before the game against Iowa State during the CyHawk game at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

The fireworks at Kinnick Stadium exploded endlessly into the night sky on Saturday as the Massachusetts football team fell 47-7 to Iowa. The Minutemen (0-3) trailed for all but 88 seconds of game time as the Hawkeyes (2-1) controlled the game in all facets.

Here are the key good, bad and ugly moments of the Hawkeyes’ nonconference win over UMass. It took 91 seconds and three plays for the Hawkeyes to find the end zone against UMass. Two of those plays were passes, including a 20-yard touchdown reception by Seth Anderson.

Iowa's players doused Ferentz in Gatorade to celebrate the benchmark. "It's not something you think about," Ferentz said in a postgame interview with Big Ten Network. "It's never been a goal of mine.

Kaden Wetjen dropped an underwhelming performance against Iowa State last week. But the Iowa Hawkeyes' wide receiver turned it around with a record-breaking per