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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Michigan failed its first major road test of the season.It might not matter for the Wolverines and their playoff hopes -- if they win out.Freshman Keith Duncan kicked a 33-yard field goal as time expired and Iowa stunned third-ranked Michigan 14-13 on Saturday night, damaging the Wolverines playoff hopes.We just have to look in the mirror and look at the film and become better because of this, Michigan tight end Jake Butt said. Theres really no excuse, theres absolutely no excuse.But Michigan is still very much alive, in part because Clemson and Washington lost earlier in the day -- at home, no less.Still, its the middle of November and the Wolverines have yet to beat a team with more than one league win on the road.Wilton Speight threw for 103 yards with a pick for the Wolverines, who gained just 201 yards of offense.We didnt make enough plays to extend drives, first downs. We missed on some deep throws, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said. Every little thing doesnt always go your way, and to win, youve got to make it that way.Akrum Wadley had 115 yards rushing to help the Hawkeyes (6-4, 4-3 Big Ten) beat a top-five team for the first time in six years.Michigan (9-1, 6-1, No. 2 AP) appeared to have the game wrapped up when Channing Stribling intercepted C.J. Beathards pass with 1:54 left. But the Hawkeyes stuffed the Wolverines, and a facemask penalty put Iowa at Michigans 36 with 1:23 to go.Duncan then drilled the ball through the uprights from nearly the exact same spot where Daniel Murray hit the winner eight years ago to knock Penn State out of the national title picture.It was an incredible feeling, said Duncan, who was immediately mobbed by teammates and fans. Its definitely the biggest kick Ive had.THE TAKEAWAYMichigan: The Wolverines offense struggled mightily on a cold and windy night in Iowa City -- where they had lost in each of their last three trips. Michigans top-ranked defense made up for it for much of the night, but a bad final series by its offense and a crushing penalty put Iowa in position to pull off the massive upset.Iowa: After three straight homes losses and a 41-14 loss at Penn State last week, the Hawkeyes redeemed themselves. The defense looked like the one that was expected to help the Hawkeyes compete for a second straight Big Ten title, and the offense did just enough to give the program a win it sorely needed after weeks of listless play.POLL IMPLICATIONS: Its hard to see Michigan falling further than fourth in the Top 25 . One-loss Louisville and Ohio State could jump past the Wolverines, but all that matters is being in the top four when the playoff committee makes its selections.HISTORY REPEATS ITSELFDuncans big kick was not only reminiscent to 2008, but 1985 -- and Michigan was involved in that one. In what is remembered as perhaps the biggest game in the history of Kinnick Stadium, top-ranked Iowa beat No. 2 Michigan 12-10 on a field goal at the final whistle. The Hawkeyes were later knocked off by Ohio State -- and if the same happens to Michigan on Nov. 26, it can likely forget about the playoffs.THE NUMBERSMichigan ran for only 98 yards on 35 carries. ...Wadley had his best game for the Hawkeyes, even if hes put up bigger numbers in previous efforts. Wadley also caught a 3-yard TD pass on a fourth-down play to bring the Hawkeyes within 10-8. ...Kenny Allen kicked a career-long 51-yard field goal with 9:35 left. ...Iowas home season has certainly been interesting. Before beating Michigan, it lost to North Dakota State of the FCS -- also on a kick at the final whistle.HE SAID ITId rather throw for 60 yards and get a win than throw for 400 and get a loss, Beathard said. He was just 8 of 19 passing for 66 yards.UP NEXTMichigan closes out its home schedule against Indiana, its final tuneup for what should be yet another massive showdown with rival Ohio State.Iowa travels to face Illinois in its last road game of 2016. The Hawkeyes are 3-1 on the road.---More college football at www.collegefootball.ap.orgAdidas Daniel Sprong Jersey . Boucher previously coached the Tampa Bay Lightning and had a 97-78-20 record over two-plus seasons. He was dismissed by the team last March after the Lightning struggled in the lockout-shortened season with a 13-18-1 record. Wholesale Penguins Jerseys . -- Bobby Ryan helped the U. http://www.adidaspenguinsjerseys.com/?tag=adidas-evgeni-malkin-jersey .S District Court against Major League Baseball, the Office of the Commissioner and his own union, the MLBPA. Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys . It was just business as usual for the Thunder at home. 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At just 28 years old, Mehringer is the youngest coordinator in the Power 5 this season, and he doesnt look all that much older than some of his players.Hes also part of a growing youth movement on coaching staffs around the country. When the 2016 season started, there were 15 coordinators under 35 in the Power 5. Theyre not old enough to be president of the United States, but they could be calling plays for your favorite team.Its definitely not a taboo anymore to be a young guy, said Walt Bell, Marylands 32-year-old offensive coordinator. Even when I got my first assistant coaching job at 26, that was a big deal because I was one of the youngest coaches in the country. Now its more common.How does someone rise so fast in the coaching ranks? Why are more head coaches comfortable giving headsets to guys with nary a gray hair? The backstories of these precocious playcallers answer those questions. It takes the right early connections, sometimes years of grunt work while waiting for a big break and then taking full advantage of an opportunity.Connections: Coaching, like many other professions, is often more about who you know than what you know.Mehringer suffered a career-ending knee injury during bowl practice his freshman year at Rice. Needing to do some work for the athletic department to keep his scholarship, that January he walked into the office of the freshly-hired offensive coordinator and volunteered his services.The coordinator? Tom Herman.That began a long and fruitful relationship. Herman would later hire Mehringer as a graduate assistant at both Iowa State and Ohio State, bring him on board as receivers coach at Houston and recommend him to new Rutgers head coach Chris Ash.Coach Herman has treated me like his son, Mehringer said. He coached me hard and forced me to develop.NC State offensive coordinator Eliah Drinkwitz, 33, planned to go to law school after a shoulder injury kept him from playing college football at Arkansas Tech. Instead, his old high school coach hooked him up with an innovative young offensive whiz in Springdale, Arkansas: Gus Malzahn. That eventually led to a graduate assistant gig at Auburn and much more.Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, who turned 33 on Sept. 5, was a quarterback for Texas Tech who learned the Mike Leach system inside and out. Same goes for Eric Morris, who was a receiver for the Red Raiders under Leach and now, at 30, is his alma maters offensive coordinator. Auburn offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee, 33, is another Malzahn disciple, having played for him at Springdale High School.Larry Fedora and Blake Anderson helped give Bells career wings. Both were offensive coordinators at Middle Tennessee, where Bell played four years as a wide receiver. Fedora gave Bell his first full-time job at Southern Miss and took him to North Carolina. Anderson made Bell the offensive coordinator at Arkansas State at age 29. It was Fedora who told Maryland head coach DJ Durkin to look at Bell this winter.Im still a nobody, Bell said, but I was really a nobody before those guys took a chance on me.Sometimes the future connections are closer than you think. Iowa States Tom Manning played alongside Matt Campbell at Mount Union for one season before Campbell became his position coach. Manning ended up working for Campbell at Toledo and now is the Cyclones offensive coordinator at 33.I knew early on that coach Campbell was a special guy, Manning said. I tried to model myself around what he was doing. Hes been a great mentor.Grunt work: Their ages may make them look like overnight sensations, but many young coaches paid their dues in some lean early years.Bell spent five-and-a-half years as either a graduate assistant or quality control coach before getting promoted at Southern Miss. During that time, he says, I probably spent three of those years living in the office.Syracuse co-offensive coordinator Sean Lewis, 30, lived in the basement of the offensive linee coachs house when he got his first full-time college job, coaching tight ends at Division II Nebraska-Omaha in 2010.dddddddddddd The running backs and receivers coaches also shared rooms in the same house.Drinkwitz and his wife quit their jobs as Arkansas high school teachers so he could take that grad assistant job at Auburn. They sold their house and moved with their 3-month-old daughter into a 900-square foot apartment. Drinkwitz made less than $18,000 at Auburn, so his wife had to work and take care of the baby while he spent hours and hours at the football facility.Mehringer put in three years at Rice as a student assistant/equipment manager before four more as a graduate assistant at Iowa State and Ohio State. He just got out of debt earlier this year, he said.I worked for free for seven years, Mehringer said. It wasnt just, you show up and it happens, even if it feels that way on paper sometimes.Taking advantage: Winning begets more opportunities. Mehringer was a graduate assistant on Ohio State teams that went 24-2. When former Buckeyes assistant Everett Withers took the James Madison job, he asked Mehringer to join him. Mehringer didnt even know what position he would have when he accepted. Then he found out he was offensive coordinator, at the tender age of 26.James Madison broke several school offensive records in 2014 and made the FCS playoffs. Mehringer was then part of last years Houston team that went 13-1 and won the Peach Bowl.Bell, Drinkwitz and Lashlee all oversaw explosive attacks as coordinators at Arkansas State before breaking into the big leagues. Head coaches looking for coordinators are much more interested in yards and points per game than any numbers on a birth certificate.Younger guys will continue to get opportunities as long as the ones who get them are successful, Ash said. I never saw a description of a good coach in a book that said he has to be a certain age.The young coordinators might not have the wealth of experiences upon which a 25-year veteran in the industry can draw. On the flip side, they can often bring youthful energy to the table.I think one reason teams are angling toward younger guys is because theyre single and theyve got no excuse to not be working, Bell said. Im here every day at 4:30 or 5 in the morning. Ive got nothing else in my life thats going to take precedent over me doing a good job.I think, at the end of the day, a lot of that plays into it. Coaches want to know theyve got a guy on staff whos not going to be distracted by anything else and that this is his life.Ash said that being able to relate to young players, especially recruits, is incredibly important.Like the Pokemon Go thing, Ash said. I dont know anything about it, but [Mehringer] knows everything about it. He can talk to the players and talk to recruits about that.Syracuses Lewis said he recently bought the new Drake album the day it came out, just as most of his players did. He has had players come over to his house and challenge him on Xbox.We can talk about a lot of things outside of football, Lewis said. It helps bring down that barrier a little bit, so guys have trust and then are willing to believe what youre selling. And then I think they play that much harder for you.Their early arrival as Power 5 coordinators obviously have many of these young coaches on the career fast track. Marylands Bell has aspirations to be a head coach when hes still as young as his current boss, the 38-year-old Durkin.Ive got really big goals, he said. Im in a rush. I always have been.Rutgers Mehringer is more of a live-in-the moment guy. Some of that is because he accidentally fell into coaching. Much of it stems from a serious head injury he suffered in 2008. A fall in a parking lot outside a Van Halen concert left him with a subdural hematoma. He had emergency brain surgery and was unconscious for three days afterward. He could have died or faced long-term mental health issues.Im blessed to be here and just alive in general, he said. So I dont look past today.Luckily for him and a lot of his peers, today is as good a time as ever to be a young coach on the rise.I think its a positive that no matter age, race or backgrounds, coaches are getting a spot at the table, Lewis said. And if they doing a good job, theyre getting rewarded for that. ' ' '