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After a week off to watch and wait, Iowa is poised to return to the friendly confines of Kinnick Stadium on Saturday as they play host to the #6 Oregon Ducks. Like Iowa, Oregon comes to Iowa City fresh off a bye with two weeks to prepare. The Ducks come into the week riding a […]
It’s week ten of the college football season and the Hawkeyes are on their second and final bye week of the year as they prepare for a date with #6 Oregon next week. While the Hawkeyes are off this weekend, there’s still plenty of football to watch, including some games with implications for Iowa. In […]
Hawkeye fans know, Iowa has rarely enjoyed positive media attention for any sustained period. Part of the Kirk Ferentz approach to program building has been flying under the radar. “We’re not sexy.” The narrative has long been, and for good reason, that you don’t really need to pay attention to the players, the games or […]
The Hawkeye men begin their basketball season Tuesday, 11/4, against Robert Morris. This will be the first look we get from the team, as they absconded the standard exhibition in favor of a second secret scrimmage against the team who knocked out Ben McCollum’s Drake Bulldogs, Texas Tech. From the sounds of it, the Hawkeyes […]
We’ve reached double digits folks. We now have only five weeks of the regular season left. Time is quickly running out, as is my time to complete that garbage truck Halloween costume I mentioned last week. Thank goodness my two oldest kids went for ready-made, easy to find in the store options. There’s no way […]
This past Tuesday night I was unable to settle into sleep. I tossed and turned. I folded pillows, cuddled comforters, snuggled the dog. Nothing I was doing kicked the melatonin into over drive (I’m sure it had nothing to do with the Queen sized Prime Rib I attempted to eat just a few short hours […]
There’s really nothing better than watching your favorite team dominate a rival the way that Iowa did in Kinnick last Saturday. It was one of those games where almost everything went right for Iowa and pretty much everything went wrong for the Golden Flecks. I mean, when the only thing I can really find to […]
It’s the bye week and that means no Kirk this week. With KF on break, we’re giving your boy Matt C the day off as well and that means you’re stuck with me and Iowa’s three coordinators. Not a ton of newsy stuff in the pressers this week, but there was some good content, especially […]
There are 200 total minutes to be allocated over the course of an NCAA women’s basketball game. It’s Jan Jensen and her coach staff’s job to determine how they’re distributed. This season, finding the perfect balance could prove tricky. The roster is as deep as it is inexperienced, with 9 of the 14 players on […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Iowa Hawkeyes fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The Iowa Hawkeyes are officially riding a heater. After coming up short in their comeback […]
No surprises from week nine of Big Ten play. Every favorite won, and the superior teams dominated the scum of the conference. Iowa and Indiana boast the most impressive wins of the season, winning by a combined 97-9. Oregon was caught sleepwalking against Wisconsin, and still won by two touchdowns. The week ten slate is […]
Sunday was National Tight End Day. We’ll celebrate momentarily. But we have to start with some defensive players who wanted the spotlight as well. Let’s roll! Anthony Nelson You are about to see a disrespectful defensive touchdown by Mr. Nelson. You know that, “You’re too little!” celebration? Angel Reese does it every second or third […]
Another week, another win for the Hawkeyes, who have continued their upward trajectory over the last month. Iowa has won three in a row, including a pair of dominating performances against rivals Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Hawkeyes won those two matchups by a combined scored of 78-3 with the home win over once-#2 Penn State […]
I’m just going to come right off the top rope and say that watching PJ Fleck settle for a feckless field goal because he didn’t want to get blanked at Kinnick Stadium was an All-Time victory cigar moment for me. It might be my favorite moment in the Ferentz/Fleck era of this rivalry. I just […]
Let’s throw some quick love to the Iowa football twitter account. Got to hand it to the Iowa media crew. They have crushed for the last three weeks, going back to the Wisconsin game. Absolute fire from those people. To the game! I really thought this would be close. Minnesota allowed 294 yards per game […]
It’s game time in Iowa City! After a thrilling comeback win a week ago against Penn State, the Hawkeyes are back inside the friendly confines of Kinnick Stadium for a second straight week. Up next is a showdown with the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the battle for Floyd of Rosedale. The Hawkeyes emerged victorious in […]
The Hawkeyes picked up a second straight win a week ago when they came storming back against the Penn State Nittany Lions to win 25-24. It was a gutsy win despite playing anything but a clean game, much in contrast to their rivalry win the week prior at Wisconsin. Now Iowa again takes to the […]
It’s remarkable how quickly things can change in college football. Nowhere has that been more evident than with Iowa’s opponent last week. The Penn State Nittany Lions started the year ranked inside the top-5 with a Heisman hopeful at QB. Now they find themselves below .500, winless in the Big Ten and without either their […]
Here we go, everyone – Floyd. Floyd is back on the line. You remember the last time Floyd was on the line in Iowa City? Surely you do. Surely. Let’s check the weather quick. It looks like a palatable weekend, with highs Saturday in the high 50s. It’s expected to be cloudy all day with […]
The Big Ten might be worse than I originally had predicted. The bottom of the conference is so horrifyingly bad that I get sad writing about it. Penn State, Michigan, and Illinois aren’t on par with the top three of the conference. All it means for Hawkeye fans is an abundance of upward mobility. Here’s […]
The Hawkeyes fought for the full four quarters a week ago and emerged victorious over Penn State to move to 5-2 on the year and 3-1 in Big Ten play. While they won the game outright, they notably did not cover while hitting the over. This week, Iowa opened as a pretty big favorite against […]
Jr. has a lot going on this week so I’m lending a hand. I hope you weren’t looking for any GoT references or stories about writer’s block, because you’re not getting any. I will, however, make an attempt to put my cynicism on the shelf for the time being and try to mirror his more […]
The college football season continues to roll on all too fast. We’re already into late October with five weeks left in the regular season. Feels like I just got back from my summer vacation a couple of weeks ago but in reality I need to think about raking the leaves in my lawn in time […]
The Hawkeyes are back in Kinnick on Saturday with a familiar foe on the docket as the Minnesota Golden Gophers head south to Iowa City. While these two programs know each other well, the personnel is a bit different for this group of Gophers coming to town, including a new QB and a new defensive […]
Can someone please explain to me why Minnesota got a vote in the AP Top 25 this week and Iowa didn’t? I mean, sure, the Gophers knocked off a ranked Huskers squad (that looked every bit like the second-half Nebraska teams we’ve come to expect), but if someone out there honestly believes that Nebraska is […]