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Iowa Football: Hawkeyes Look to Kickstart Season With UNI Matchup
Through two weeks of this young college football season, we’ve seen quite the roller coaster ride both in Iowa City and across the country. Entering the year, the Big Ten looked like the nation’s preeminent conference. There were a pair of top-5 teams, a trio in the top-10 and a handful of other teams that […]
The Pants Predicts: Iowa vs Northern Iowa
The Hawkeyes are poised to close out their non-conference slate as well as their season-opening three game home stand on Saturday as they play host to the Northern Iowa Panthers. After thoroughly demolishing the Northern Illinois Huskies 40-0 in their opener, the Hawkeyes struggled a bit in week two, edging out the Iowa State Cyclones […]
Iowa Hawkeyes Football: Northern Iowa Panthers Game Preview
On Saturday, the Iowa Hawkeyes will be playing the Northern Iowa Panthers for the nineteenth time in its history. At this point, Iowa is 2-0 on the season, but it feels like we don’t know much more than we did when the season began. We can, however, say a few things with confidence: Unfortunately, this […]
2026 College Football Watch Guide – Week 3
They say misery loves company but I doubt that will make the faithful in Norman, Oklahoma and Eugene, Oregon feel any better about last weekend. The Sooners and the Ducks were the unfortunate victims of 2026’s first big upsets of the year – for games played less than sixty minutes and one second, that is. […]
By The Numbers: Iowa vs. Northern Iowa
The last time UNI came to Iowa City was 8 years ago, but no one is talking about that game (a 38-14 Hawkeye win) this week. No, a visit from the Panthers will only, ever, invoke one memory for most Hawkeye fans, and that memory is from September 5, 2009. Pretty sure most of us […]
Big Ten Power Rankings: Week 2
What a disaster of a week for the Big Ten Conference. Let’s pick our way through the carnage of Week 2. 1. IU (2-0, 0-0) Well, here we are with the defending champs up to #1 again. Yeah, it’s Howard. Yeah, IU should hammer this team. And look at that – they did. They’re good […]
Hawks in the NFL: Week 1
We are back protecting the shield! Let’s dive in. A couple of players found the scoresheet this week. George Kittle is back from his Achilles injury. Tory Taylor barely had to do anything while Chicago nearly dropped 60 on Carolina. The Broncos “played” a game of football Monday. Sam LaPorta, Jack Campbell, and Noah Fant […]
KIRK SPEAKS: UNI
And just like that, it’s Week 3! This week’s opponent, the University of Northern Iowa Panthers, should not be a huge issue for this Iowa Hawkeyes team, no matter how the rest of the season goes. That being said, there are definitely some valid questions to ask about what the rest of the season will […]
Fun With Numbers: Stats to Know From Iowa’s Win Over Iowa State
Iowa’s win over the Iowa State Cyclones certainly was not pretty. The Hawkeyes went into the matchup favored by as many points as any game in the Cy-Hawk series in a decade. However, instead of the thrashing Iowa fans yearned for, we were given yet another slug fest in which we saw both teams trade […]
Iowa Hawkeyes: The Day That Changed the Culture of Iowa Football September 15, 1979
September 15, 1979. It’s widely viewed as the day when the culture of Iowa football had a dramatic shift. But before we dive into what happened on that day, we need to back up a little bit and talk about what happened before that day. Well, more than just a little bit. 19 years to […]
Iowa Football Depth Chart: Kamari Moulton Remains as Starting Running Back Week 3 vs UNI
The University of Iowa Athletics Department has officially released its Week 3 depth chart as the Hawkeyes turn their full attention to this coming Saturday’s in-state game against the 1-1 Northern Iowa Panthers. Following a gritty Cy-Hawk performance against ISU, the coaching staff opted to keep the two-deep stable while they work behind the scenes […]
Hawkeye Football Wound Up and Rewind: The Cy-Hawk Game
This game is never a fun experience, for either side these days. What a slog. Always a field goal game, one way or the other. It’s torture. Who actually likes this game? Put your hands down, you sickos… But hey, Iowa nabbed a 16-13 win in the Cy-Hawk game (note; no one, and I mean […]
Caitlin Clark and Team USA take on France in FIBA World Cup Finals
For a team that has been a heavy favorite in each game it has played, it hasn’t felt like an easy road for team USA during this FIBA World Cup. Yesterday, the team faced off against Spain, which features Hawkeye legend Megan DiLeo (formerly Gustafson) and struggled more than expected. Spain deserves credit for being […]
Hawkeye Football: The Morning After Iowa State vs Iowa
The Cyclones came to Kinnick hoping to spoil Iowa’s massive recruiting weekend, but in a traditional Cy-Hawk fashion, Iowa survived on a game winning field goal and got to hoist the trophy to take it back home to its rightful resting place. I was fuming at the end of this game and didn’t feel a […]
Instant Reaction: Iowa 16, ISU 13
The Iowa Hawkeyes flipped the script on the Cyclones, winning this year’s CyHawk game on a late field goal to pull out a 16-13 win. It was a scrappy, ugly, sometimes dirty game that was pretty much in line to how this series has gone these last ten years. But the Hawkeyes exorcised the demons […]
Iowa Hawkeyes vs Iowa State Cyclones Fan Discussion
It’s game time, baby! The Hawkeyes are back in action and for the second week in a row, Iowa will play host to a first year coach as the Iowa State Cyclones come to town with new head coach Jimmy Rogers. While Rogers was at South Dakota State before his one year stint at Washington […]
Party Like It’s 2016?
College football, in its purest form, is a remarkable game full of tradition, pageantry and so much fun. At the apex of that purity sits rivalry games. Texas-Oklahoma. Ohio State-Michigan. Iowa-Iowa State. There are generations of tradition and hatred built up among the fanbases and the games just bring more juice. Tonight marks the 73rd […]
How to Watch the Iowa Hawkeyes vs Iowa State Cyclones
It is game day in Iowa City once again! After a 40-0 dismantling of the Northern Illinois Huskies in week one, the Hawkeyes are poised to step up their level of competition as they host in-state rivals Iowa State. The Cyclones come to town 1-0 after they handled Southeast Missouri State in their opener a […]
Hawkeye Football: Updated Game Line, Weather Update for Iowa State-Iowa
Welcome back! Heading into Saturday’s Cy-Hawk showdown, the forecast looked like there was a chance of rain at some point on Saturday. Game time looked dry, but the rain chance looked good early in the day so tailgating had the potential to be wet. Now? Saturday’s forecast looks great throughout the day. Temperatures throughout the […]
University of Iowa Recruiting: Cy-Hawk Weekend Serves as Massive Backdrop for Hawkeye Football and Basketball Targets
It’s Cy-Hawk week in Iowa City. While the state divides and “Hate Week” takes over, the Iowa coaching staffs are turning the annual intra-state grudge match into a massive recruiting weapon. The timing and setting couldn’t be better for Hawkeye Nation. This year’s battle for the Cy-Hawk Trophy will be showcasing Kinnick Under the Lights, […]
Iowa Hawkeyes Football: Iowa State Cyclones Game Preview
This week, the Iowa Hawkeyes play the Iowa State Cyclones for the 73rd time. Iowa is coming off a dominating win over the Northern Illinois Huskies while Iowa State is coming off its own impressive win vs the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks. Iowa State has a new coach in Jimmy Rogers, who previously coached at […]
2026 College Football Watch Guide – Week 2
You could say it’s true, the (Big) House always wins. Week 1 had a little bit of everything for everybody. Huge blowouts? Yep. Nailbiter endings that came down to the wire? It had those too. Games played in semidarkness with no stadium clocks, PA system, or coach-QB communication? A little strange, but sure. Speaking of […]
The Butcher’s Word: Iowa State Cyclones
Hate week is in full swing and while perhaps no opponent is as familiar to Iowa fans as the Iowa State Cyclones, this year’s iteration of the Cy-Hawk series features a brand new regime in Ames. The Hawkeyes have not faced off with Jimmy Rogers as head coach previously so it’s time to get to […]
By The Numbers: El Assico
Hate Week is almost over folks, and it’s been one for the ages (at least if the signs hanging off frat houses in Iowa City count for anything). There’s a whole new Cyclone team heading to Iowa City to play under the lights in the house that Hayden built, more than 80 of whom have […]
Big Ten Power Rankings: Week 1
Week 1 (and Week 0) is in the books. Let’s go with a completely unscientific, definitely biased, definitely emotional Week 1 league power ranking. Not a great week for the league overall. A few teams looked mostly good to great. A few teams struggled. One team face-planted. Another committed a felony. Not great, Bob. 1. […]
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