You tell me: Who is Hawkeyes' top football villain of all-time?

Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.com does a really good job covering the Big Ten. He's always looking for ways to induce discussion.

I think he hit on one today when he listed his picks for each Big Ten team's current and all-time biggest villains. For his choices, click here.

He said Wisconsin Coach Iowa Bret Bielema was the Hawkeyes' top current villain. That's probably true, since Iowa has never played a Paul Rhoads-coached Iowa State team, and since Minnesota Coach Tim Brewster has yet to beat the Hawkeyes.

But Adam was throwing darts when he said UCLA running back Eric Ball was the Hawkeyes' top all-time villain. Ball was a wrecking ball in the Bruins' 45-28 Rose Bowl win over Iowa on Jan. 1, 1986, but I'm guessing his name wouldn't even enter the discussion among those who have seen Iowa football a while.

I'll throw out five candidates, then your job is to chime in with even better nominations.

1. The "Fainting Irish." Notre Dame's players started coming down with a myriad of phantom injuries to stop the clock late in the Irish's 14-14 tie with Iowa in 1953.

2. Greg Frey to Bobby Olive, three yards, touchdown with :01 left at Kinnick Stadium in 1990. Ohio State 27, Iowa 26.

3. Gary Barnett. When he was the Northwestern coach, he singled out Iowa as the Big Ten program he wanted to emulate. Barnett had his scout team wear Tiger Hawk decals on their helmets in practice of the week leading up to Iowa one year, and painted his own locker room pink another year.

His program changed the Northwestern-Iowa dynamic when the Wildcats beat Iowa in 1995, 1996 and 1997.

4. Seneca Wallace. In 2002, he had one of the best halves a Kinnick visitor ever displayed in rallying Iowa State to a 36-31 win over Iowa in 2002. It was the Hawkeyes' only regular-season scratch that year.

5. The Conference USA game official who called offside on Iowa's Chad Greenway on an onside kick the Hawkeyes recovered. Iowa had to kick again, Florida recovered, and the Gators hung on for a 31-24 win.

Now let's get to the good stuff. Namely, your selections. Have at it.