Full Coverage: 102nd Rose Bowl game: Stanford 45, Iowa 16

The 102nd Rose Bowl game was a blowout by the second quarter Friday, with Stanford well on its way to a 45-16 demolition of Iowa, when the Cardinal pulled the football equivalent of a three-card Monte on what seemed like a bunch of unsuspecting Midwest tourists.

As lopsided as the final score was in Friday’s Rose Bowl, there was a point late in the first quarter of Stanford’s 45-16 victory over Iowa where it appeared the Hawkeyes might actually make a game of it.

Photos from the 102nd Rose Bowl game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The paths of the Iowa and Stanford football teams will finally cross Friday when the Hawkeyes and Cardinal, whose programs date to 1889 and 1892, respectively, meet for the first time in the 102nd Rose Bowl game.

Times staff writer Mike DiGiovanna examines how Stanford and Iowa match up in advance of Friday’s Rose Bowl game in Pasadena: Stanford run game vs.

Notable facts and figures as Stanford and Iowa meet in the Rose Bowl on Friday: :: Black and gold could be the dominant color scheme in the stadium, with Iowa expecting more than 50,000 fans for its first Rose Bowl game since 1991.

Conrad Ukropina needed a strong leg, good technique and timing, supreme concentration and confidence and endless hours of practice to become the kicker he is today, the starter for a Stanford team that will play Iowa in the Rose Bowl on Friday.

There was trouble in Iowa City last January after the Iowa football team put the finishing smudges on a 7-6 season with an uninspiring 45-28 loss to Tennessee in the TaxSlayer Bowl.

The low point of Kevin Hogan’s season came in the fourth quarter of a Nov. 14 game against Oregon, when the usually sure-handed Stanford quarterback fumbled away two center snaps, the second with two minutes left and the Cardinal deep in Ducks territory driving for a potential game-tying score.

They’re the first and second runners-up in college football’s bowl-game beauty pageant, teams with great looks and personality that came within a two-point conversion and a fourth-down stop of playing for a national championship.

A year later Statistics indicate why Iowa was 7-6 last season and 12-1 this season.