.The Iowa Hawkeyes are stroking their cuts coming from a magnificent 20-19 rivalry loss versus the Iowa State Cyclones.In spite of shutting out the Cyclones in the 1st half and leading 13-0 at halftime, the Hawkeyes' frustrating second-half performance left observers with lots of inquiries.Some of those was actually Iowa mind soccer instructor Kirk Ferentz's choice to go for a two-point conversion try.After Iowa Condition scored its own very first goal of the day along with a 3-yard touchdown grab coming from senior Jayden Higgins with 8:48 left behind in the 3rd one-fourth, Iowa responded with a 7-play, 79-yard travel that ended along with a 3-yard touchdown fly junior running back Kaleb Johnson.With the Hawkeyes leading 19-7 after Johnson's goal plunge and 4:47 staying in the 3rd quarter, Ferentz and also Iowa chose to try for a two-point sale to potentially prolong the Hawkeyes' result in 21-7.The two-point try stopped working as graduate quarterback Cade McNamara could not connect with fresher wide receiver Reece Vander Zee in the section of completion area.After that, Ferentz was actually asked about his choice to try for the two-point conversion." Yeah, I suggest, I believe maybe the dispute would be is it too early, that type of thing. That placed our team at 19-7. I thought it gave us our finest opportunity to gain the soccer video game, as well as to me the much bigger concern is our company certainly not a minimum of obtaining one touchdown out of those two field goal opportunities. Our company possessed the sphere down inside there close. That is actually undoubtedly a place our team are actually visiting must improve," Ferentz stated.The logic for seeking the two-point sale attempt makes sense. Turn the two-point go and also Iowa State would certainly have needed a set of goals and extra suggest match the football activity.As An Alternative, Iowa Condition redshirt freshman kicker Kyle Konrardy's 54-yard field goal wound up as the game-winner rather than working with a possible game-tying field goal try if the Hawkeyes had actually chosen for a dab try earlier.Contact/Follow our team @HawkeyesWire on X as well as like our page on Facebook to adhere to continuous insurance coverage of Iowa news, notes as well as opinions.Follow Josh on X:@JoshOnREF.