Iowa Football

The Gazette’s Pick ‘Ems for Week 7 of the 2024 college football season, including Iowa hosting Big Ten newcomer Washington and Iowa State visiting West Virginia in a Saturday night showdown.

The Iowa football team faced a high-powered transfer quarterback last week in Ohio State’s Will Howard, who threw four touchdown passes in a 35-7 win. This week, it sees another high-powered transfer quarterback in Will Rogers, who transferred this season from Mississippi State to Washington.

Andy Yamashita of The Seattle Times joins The Gazette’s Hawk Off The Press podcast this week to preview Saturday’s Big Ten football game between Washington and Iowa.

Despite losing almost all of its starters from last year’s College Football Playoff team, Washington has the ingredients necessary to make this a competitive game at Kinnick.

Washington played in the national championship game last year. That isn’t one of the Fun Facts, because either you knew it or you don’t follow college football and came to this post by mistake.

Cade McNamara has a higher completion percentage than many recent Iowa quarterbacks, but that number comes with a significant caveat.

When a player like Kaleb Brown is not contributing in games, it’s “not like you lose anything that way” when he leaves, Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz said.

Frank “Fritz” Waskowitz of Washington and Iowa’s Nile Kinnick had glorious college football careers. They played against each other in 1937, then died as World War II military pilots a few years later.

Iowa tight end Addison Ostrenga “probably” will not be available for the Hawkeyes’ Oct. 12 game against Washington, head coach Kirk Ferentz said on Tuesday.

The Washington team that will come to Kinnick Stadium will look a lot different from the Washington team that played Michigan in the 2023 national title game.

Iowa’s defense made some NFL-caliber plays as it forced two turnovers in the first half. Then in the second half, Iowa gave up three costly turnovers as it went up against an Ohio State defense that also has plenty of NFL-caliber talent.

Iowa’s leading rusher from last season announced his plans to enter the transfer portal.

Iowa football’s Oct. 19 game at Michigan State kick off at 6:30 p.m. and air on NBC, the Big Ten announced on Monday.

Iowa wide receiver Kaleb Brown has opted out of the rest of the Hawkeyes’ 2024 games and will use his redshirt year, he announced Monday morning on social media.

Alcohol sales at Iowa football games were up about 29 percent in 2023, according to data obtained by The Gazette.

The Hawkeyes have been outscored, 181-17, in their last five games against ranked opponents.

John Steppe explains his AP ballot after a wild weekend of college football, which included the No. 1, No. 4, No. 10 and No. 11 teams all suffering unranked losses.

Kirk Ferentz explained why he called a timeout right before Iowa attempted a fake punt against Ohio State.

Iowa football does not have a quarterback “controversy,” as Kirk Ferentz sees it.