.The Iowa Hawkeyes are licking their wounds from a spectacular 20-19 rivalry loss versus the Iowa State Cyclones.Even with locking out the Cyclones in the first half and also leading 13-0 at halftime, the Hawkeyes' frustrating second-half performance left behind onlookers with lots of concerns.Among those was actually Iowa head regulation football instructor Kirk Ferentz's decision to select a two-point transformation try.After Iowa Condition scored its initial touchdown of the time with a 3-yard goal grab coming from elderly Jayden Higgins along with 8:48 left behind in the 3rd fourth, Iowa answered along with a 7-play, 79-yard travel that ended with a 3-yard touchdown run from jr operating back Kaleb Johnson.Along with the Hawkeyes leading 19-7 after Johnson's goal plunge and 4:47 remaining in the 3rd one-fourth, Ferentz and Iowa decided to pursue a two-point sale to likely extend the Hawkeyes' cause 21-7.The two-point try stopped working as graduate quarterback Cade McNamara could not associate with freshman pass receiver Reece Vander Zee in the edge of completion area.Later on, Ferentz was actually asked them about his choice to pursue the two-point conversion." Yeah, I indicate, I presume possibly the controversy will be is it prematurely, that type of point. That placed our team at 19-7. I believed it gave us our greatest opportunity to win the soccer activity, as well as to me the greater issue is us certainly not at the very least receiving one goal away from those two field goal options. We possessed the round down inside there close. That is actually undoubtedly a place our company're heading to need to improve," Ferentz said.The reasoning for trying the two-point conversion try makes good sense. Change the two-point try out and Iowa State would certainly have needed a pair of touchdowns as well as extra lead to tie the football video game.Rather, Iowa State redshirt fresher secret Kyle Konrardy's 54-yard field goal ended up as the game-winner instead of embodying a prospective game-tying field goal make an effort if the Hawkeyes had actually selected for a dab make an effort earlier.Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X and also like our web page on Facebook to adhere to recurring coverage of Iowa information, details and viewpoints.Adhere To Josh on X:@JoshOnREF.