IOWA CITY, Iowa – Junior Tyler Goodson ran for a career-high 153 yards and three touchdowns to lead the fifth-ranked University of Iowa football team to a 30-7 victory over Kent State on Saturday afternoon on Duke Slate Field inside Kinnick Stadium.
The win is the Hawkeyes’ 300th in Kinnick Stadium, moves Iowa to 3-0 on the season and is the team’s ninth straight victory dating back to the 2020 campaign.
Goodson, who had touchdown runs of 46 and 35 yards, led an Iowa offense that finished with a season-high 228 yards rushing and 440 yards of total offense. Goodson carried the ball 22 times for his sixth career 100-yard game and averaged 7.0 yards per attempt.
Junior Spencer Petras completed 25-of-36 attempts for 209 yards and one touchdown. Junior tight end Sam LaPorta had a touchdown on a team-high 65 yards and seven receptions, while junior Tyrone Tracy, Jr., had five catches for 43 yards. Nine different players had a reception in the game.
Defensively, the Hawkeyes were a thorn in the Golden Flashes’ side, limiting Kent State to 265 yards, including 80 rushing yards on 41 carries.
Iowa was disruptive, tallying with seven sacks, 10 tackles for loss and forced one turnover. Junior Jack Campbell had a game-high 11 tackles (three solo), 0.5 sacks, one tackle for loss and a key forced fumble at the goal line to keep Kent State out of the end zone.
Five different Hawkeyes had a sack, including two by redshirt freshman Lukas Van Ness and junior Joe Evans and 1.5 by senior Zach VanVelkenburg.
The Hawkeyes host Colorado State on Sept. 25 at Kinnick Stadium.
