Iowa Football

How will Mark Gronowski help the offense? Who will step up on defense? How far will Iowa go this season? Iowa beat writer, Madison Hricik, talks about this and other subjects ahead of the Iowa football 2025 season.

If you’re waiting until its media day for Iowa football to get the tough questions, you’ll be waiting a lot longer than that.

Madison will be the primary Iowa football beat writer, but have her hands in a variety of university sports stories

Ferentz, in his 27th year as Hawkeyes’ head coach, is second-oldest coach in FBS

Junior safety from the shadow of Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor visited Iowa City, was hooked, and has Hawkeye coaches and players expecting him to be a key player for them this season.

“Iowa 42” was a phrase drummed in Badger players’ heads in offseason conditioning workouts, thanks to the Hawkeyes’ 42-10 rout of the Badgers at Kinnick Stadium last November.

Penn State is a popular pick to win the conference. Oregon won it last year and says it wants to “Double down.” Indiana, so good last year, has plenty of talent in 2025.

Iowa clearly has held the upper hand in its annual rivalry against Nebraska, but the Huskers have showed steady improvement in recent seasons.

Iowa offensive lineman Kade Pieper won his second-straight Beef Days Hay Bale Toss, but as always, a good time was had by all.

Here’s what to watch in Week 13 as the Hawkeyes seek a better outcome against the Aidan Chiles-led Spartans than in 2024.

Not a lot of tickets are left for any of the Hawkeyes’ seven 2025 home games.

USC does not have the same level of preseason hype after disappointing 2023 and 2024 seasons. The Trojans have a passing attack, though, that could be a big test for Phil Parker’s secondary in 2025.

Kaleb Johnson became an All-American and a NFL draft pick after a stellar season rushing the football for the 2024 Iowa Hawkeyes. How will Iowa replace his sizable chunk of yardage? Carefully, and probably with multiple guys.

The reigning Big Ten champions will come to Kinnick Stadium in 2025 with a relatively young group. Here’s what that could mean for Iowa in its Week 10 matchup.

Dunker was a second-team All-Big Ten honoree last year by the league’s coaches, but says he’d like to have all the 2024 games back.

One of Tim Lester’s past colleagues said the Iowa offensive coordinator is “one of the smartest coaches I’ve ever coached with.” The Hawkeyes are beginning to see that for themselves after an impressive first season in his Shanahan-style offensive system.

Iowa’s Big Ten neighbor to the north will be relying on a young quarterback and a reconfigured offensive line in 2025.

Iowa Hawkeyes graduate transfer quarterback Mark Gronowski has been given the all clear sign medically after offseason shoulder surgery and has been going through summer informal workouts, trying to get to know his teammates. In that vein, he took his offensive linemen to the Lake of the Ozarks for a recent relaxation trip and some of his wide receivers and tight ends to Dallas. He also recently competed at the Manning Passing Academy in Louisiana, a camp run by the famous football family.

Penn State has extremely high preseason expectations after a 13-win season in 2024 that ended in the College Football Playoff semifinals. Here is what the Hawkeyes need to do to be more competitive than in their last matchup against Drew Allar and the Nittany Lions.