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If you’re like me, Iowa football has been living rent-free in your head all season long and you’ve planned your saturdays around watching every Iowa football game.
The storylines surrounding Iowa just follow the extremes in every facet - Brian Ferentz’s offense, Phil Parker’s well-deserved Broyle’s award, but the legacy and perhaps unbreakable feat will with something truly special - special teams.
Punting is winning, and Iowa punts a lot. How much? Since 2000, no one has punted for more yards in a season than Iowa star Tory Taylor - who has amassed 4,119 yards.
2000 is a long time, before most players in the game today were even born, but that’s only a small part of the history of this sport. Surely in a sport where there have been games where teams punted continuously on first down someone has gotten more, right?
Yes. From the 2011 FBS records, the record for most punt yards of all time by a player lies with Johnny Pingel of Michigan State in the 1938 season - 4,138 yards.
With a mere 19 yards, Tory Taylor will break an 85 year old record that perhaps will never be broken again. So when January 1st comes around and you think there may be a more interesting game on - keep in your mind that you will be able to tell people for the rest of your life that you saw the all-time single season punting yard record get broken when Iowa goes 3-and-out one more time.
Fun Fact: Johnny Pingel went in the 1st round of the 1939 NFL draft to the Detroit Lions, 7th overall.