It will be quite a while before the blood stops boiling in Hawkeyeland

If jukeboxes still existed, I’d bet no one in Iowa would have played Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back in Anger” Saturday night.

After the Minnesota-Iowa football game with the most-controversial officiating decision in Hawkeyes football history, it would have invited more wrath to call for moving on from hurt and rage.

In fact, you probably would have gotten in a fight as bad as any that brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis ever had with each other, and they had plenty.

Yes, I’m all over the place today. So was my email Saturday night into Sunday afternoon. Here’s a lovely sample:

The Gophers WON! You Squakeye fans think every opponent is just supposed to let you win. Not gonna happen. Coach Whine & Cry Fry started this sense of Squakeye entitlement.

How about the IA fans throwing beer cans, water bottles at the Gophers bench? 'Class' is a word that never describes UI sports.

They deserved to lose at KickMe stadium. Karma.

First of all, he (it’s a male, of course) misspelled “Squawkeye.” Secondly, KickMe Stadium? Really? That’s not what it’s called.

But before we bounce the football around in the aftermath of Minnesota’s 12-10 win over Iowa Saturday and the touchdown that wasn’t, officially, here’s what Gophers radio sideline reporter Justin Gaard tweeted Saturday:

This is Year 13 on the sidelines. Trying to recall if fans anywhere have ever thrown so much stuff on the field like Iowa fans did tonight. I don’t remember it ever happening like that.

OK, let’s talk about something positive. Cooper DeJean. What he did on his touchdown-that-wasn’t was pure hocus-pocus.

He was pinned within a foot of the sideline when he fielded the bouncing ball. Over half of the Gophers’ punt team was within five yards of him. And he housed it, as the kids say.

DeJean is in the Christian McCaffrey/Reggie Bush/Desmond Howard mode. His instincts are on a level few mortals know.

Tim Dwight averaged 19.1 yards and had five touchdowns while returning 41 punts over his junior and senior seasons for Iowa in 1996-97. He was extraordinary. No Hawkeye and few other collegians have rivaled that in the quarter-century or so that has followed.

DeJean doesn’t have Dwight’s body of work as a punt returner, but he’s there. If he had made Saturday’s play in a national-playoff game, he’d have been the first person from Odebolt, Iowa, ever to walk the red carpet at the ESPYs.

DeJean’s skills and instincts, of course, are sublime. The ridiculous is out there, too.

By the way, the same thing that happened to DeJean and the Hawkeyes Saturday plagued Alex Erickson and Wisconsin in 2015. Erickson went 78 yards for a score after fielding a bouncing punt in a fabulous play that was wiped away by the officials because it was ruled he used an illegal fair-catch signal.

Now then, how many factoids do you want or need regarding Saturday’s game that make you shake your head in wonder?

Zero? OK, here are a few, anyway:

Saturday night was the first time neither Floyd of Rosedale or the Heroes Trophy for the Iowa-Nebraska series was in the Hawkeyes’ possession since Nov. 27, 2015.

Saturday’s win was its first road triumph over a Top 25 team in P.J. Fleck’s seven seasons as coach.

There were more first downs and completed passes than punts from the two teams in Saturday’s game even if it didn’t seem like it. The totals were 21, 20 and 18.

The Gophers averaged 2.1 yards per rush and completed 41 percent of their passes in the second half, and easily had the more-dominant offense.

The over/under number for Minnesota-Iowa closed at 30.5 points, the lowest such number for any FBS game since such over/unders started to be tracked in 1995. The under bettors still won with more than a touchdown to spare.

Iowa’s longest rushing play Saturday was a 7-yard Deacon Hill quarterback keeper.

The Hawkeyes can still win the Big Ten West. Hey, it’s true.

In the meantime, don’t look back in anger. Halloween is coming, and you don’t want the kids at your door to sense any hostility.

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