A special teams miscue from Iowa? You don't see that too often. Ball took a crazy hop and Nebraska falls on it.

END Q1: Nebraska 10, Iowa 10. A surprisingly high-scoring first quarter of action inside Memorial Stadium, where snow flurries have begun to fall. Husker crowd is chanting "Go Big Red" as the teams switch sides, fired up by a physical start.

Nebraska turns the extra possession into three points, with TJ Lateef throwing a nice shot into the end zone on third down. Kyle Cunanan connects on the 29-yard field goal and Nebraska is back in front, 13-10, with 13:53 left Q2. #Huskers

Iowa marches 75 yards down the field, helped by explosive plays of 26 and 29 yards during the touchdown drive. Tough, downhill running gets Iowa the 3-yard rushing touchdown and a 17-13 lead in its favor. 8:13 left Q2. #Huskers

Lateef stood in the pocket and took a shot on that play. Nebraska gets a first down courtesy of the Iowa defensive holding.

Nebraska's long scoring drive ends in a field goal, with the #Huskers now having scored on 4 of their 6 first half possessions. Big drive for the Nebraska defense coming up with Iowa ahead 17-16; Hawkeyes get the ball out of halftime too.

Too many big plays allowed by the Nebraska defense in the first half, including a 34-yard run on the latest Hawkeye scoring drive. Iowa now leads Nebraska 24-16 with 37 seconds left in the first half. #Huskers

HALF: Iowa 24, Nebraska 16. Nebraska moved the football well (E. Johnson 19 att for 177 yards, TD) and held 4-plus minutes more of possession that Iowa. The Hawkeyes scored on four consecutive drives, often on big plays, to go up 8 with the football to open the second half.

Nebraska makes a mess of things on two consecutive punt returns. A loose ball in the end zone is ruled an Iowa safety, and the Hawkeyes go up 26-16 with a free kick set to give the ball back.

Nebraska sold out to stop the run on that play. They didn't get there, leading to a long downfield pass for the Hawkeyes, which are driving inside the red zone.

Nebraska had to prevent a touchdown at all costs, but Iowa's Mark Gronowski finds the end zone on a 5-yard quarterback keeper. An ugly start to the second half for Nebraska now means the #Huskers trail Iowa 33-16 with 4:47 left to play Q3.

END Q3: Iowa 33, Nebraska 16. Nebraska ran just six offensive plays in the third quarter, gaining just 10 yards and 0 first downs with the #Huskers in need of a score. Iowa is now on the verge of punishing Nebraska even further with another long scoring drive.

Nebraska has now surrendered a season-high 40 points, exceeding the 37-point showing it allowed last week. Iowa had crossed the 40-point mark twice before this season (its 47-7 win over UMass and a 41-3 win over Minnesota). Hawkeyes lead Nebraska 40-16 in this one.

Nebraska dials up the Heinrich Haarberg bootleg on 4th-and-1. They move the chains.

FINAL: Iowa 40, Nebraska 16. An embarrassment for Nebraska, which falls to 7-5.

Nebraska HC Matt Rhule says Iowa was the better team today, adding: “I certainly didn’t think today would go that way.” Rhule: “I’ll be the first to say that was unacceptable… I understand (the fans’) disappointment and I understand our team’s disappointment.” #Huskers

Nebraska HC Matt Rhule says quarterback TJ Lateef pulled his hamstring early in the game and “that limited a lot of things that we wanted to do.” #Huskers

Nebraska HC Matt Rhule, asked for his message to the Husker fan base said: "Please don't be super toxic (to) the players; put it on me because I'm in charge of this." #Huskers

Nebraska DL Riley Van Poppel on what he wants to see from the Husker defense moving forward: “You’ve got to have 11 hungry dogs that are going to go out there and eat.” #Huskers

Nebraska quarterback TJ Lateef played through a hamstring injury Friday, a situation Matt Rhule said is "a great learning lesson" for Lateef: journalstar.com/sports/huskers…