If I were king, Iowa would play a football game at some of these 10 venues

If I were king ... people would use dollar coins and learn to love it. Two-dollar coins, too. Yes, it's all very European, or Canadian, or something like that. So what?

If I were king ... I'd get my own private tour of Hershey, Pa., a city I've never visited but believe has to be the most wonderful place on earth.

If I were king ... oil company executives would have to get in row boats and paddle into the oil, and just sit there and think about what they did.

If I were king ... (and still covered Iowa football for the Gazette because of some bizarre ruling in my contract to be king), Iowa would play in different venues every season. Northwestern is playing Illinois at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Nov. 20, and I'm jealous. I wanted Iowa to get that game. It would have been a good story.

 So here are the 10 I want. My rule is it has to be somewhere the Hawkeyes haven't played since before the Hayden Fry era in 1979. Which eliminates Oklahoma, since Fry's first Iowa team played there. It also takes out a couple of surefire picks for me, Oregon and Colorado. Outside of the Rose Bowl, those have the most-scenic backdrops of any college stadiums I've visited.

Nebraska is out, too. Iowa played there early in the Kirk Ferentz era.

There will be a poll at the end of this take for you to vote for the one place you'd like to see Iowa play one day. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comment box. If you want to include Oklahoma, I'll accept it. I've covered a game there and liked it.

1. Notre Dame. Iowa hasn't played in South Bend since 1964.

2. The Los Angeles Coliseum, against USC. The Hawkeyes last played the Trojans in the Coliseum in 1976, losing 55-0. Oh, it has to be a night game, even if it is hell on deadlines. In the new online world, deadlines will matter less and less, anyhow.

3. Wrigley Field. Come on, it's an easy drive and it would beat Northwestern's Ryan Field.

Here comes an SEC trio:

4. Alabama. The Hawkeyes and Crimson Tide have dodged each other in all those Outback and Capital One matchups. It's time to go to Tuscaloosa.

5. Florida. The Swamp. I've been to the UF campus and the gotten a tour of the football facility from assistant coach Dan McCarney. Oh, to see a game there.

6. LSU. This also has to be a night game. One of the wildest atmospheres in college ball.

(I could easily have added Georgia and Tennessee to the mix, but three is quite enough from the SEC.)

7. New Orleans Superdome. The stadium itself does nothing for me, having covered a Super Bowl there. But New Orleans? Anytime, baby.

8. University of Texas. Another mecca of college football that I've somehow missed. It's got to be great.

9. University of Washington. The stadium overlooks Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, and it's in a fantastic city, Seattle.

10. Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas. It's just plain big.

Honorable mention: Either California or Stanford for the Bay Area vibe, Florida State, Clemson, Boise State, UNLV (not for the stadium or the opponent, I assure you), the NFL stadiums in Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Washington and Denver, Texas A&M.Now it's your turn.