IOWA CITY, Iowa >> Dragan Kesich made four field goals and Minnesota won at Iowa for the first time since 1999 to snap an eight-game losing streak in the series, holding the No. 24 Hawkeyes to 12 yards in the second half in a 12-10 victory Saturday.

With the Floyd of Rosedale bronze hog statue at stake in the cross-border rivalry, Iowa appeared to take the lead with 1:21 left when Cooper DeJean fielded a punt that had bounced near the Minnesota sideline and returned it 54 yards for a touchdown. But after a replay review, DeJean was ruled to have made a fair-catch signal before fielding the punt, disallowing the return.

“The receiver makes a pointing gesture with his right hand and he makes multiple waving gestures with his left hand,” referee Tim O’Dey said through a pool reporter. “If you look at the video you’ll see that. That waving motion of the left hand constitutes an invalid fair catch signal. So when the receiving team recovers the ball, by rule it becomes dead.”

O’Dey said the review showed, “indisputable evidence that there is a waving motion with the left hand. And that is when these rules are applied.”

“I was told that he was waving,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. “What they tell us in pre-game, a wave is up here, above the head. Most people when they run, their arms do wave.”

Said Minnesota coach PJ. Fleck: “(The official) thought it was a fair-catch signal. I’m not an official, right? But there was something.”