Iowa Football

Maryland may have to turn to other ways to win games after losing four-year starting quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa.

Brody Brecht was expected to a be a first-round pick in Sunday night’s Major League Baseball Draft. But the former Hawkeye dropped to the Competitive Balance-A Round, where the Colorado Rockies plucked him 38th overall.

Derek Weisskopf of Williamsburg is The Gazette’s 2024 Male Athlete of the Year. Team oriented is a virtually unanimous description of the soon-to-be Iowa Hawkeyes linebacker.

Jermari Harris once was the young cornerback playing with older guys around him. Now he’s the “uncle” and believes he has “more to give” in his sixth season of college football.

As troublesome as games out west have sometimes been for the Hawkeyes historically, all signs point toward Iowa being the better team in its 2024 matchup with UCLA.

Iowa football will send linebacker Jay Higgins, tight end Luke Lachey and defensive back Quinn Schulte to Big Ten Media Days later this month, the conference announced Thursday morning.

Jay Higgins and Sebastian Castro are the highest-rated Iowa football players.

Iowa’s wins over Wisconsin in 2022 and 2023 were their first back-to-back wins in the Heartland Trophy series since the 2000s. Making that three in a row is certainly feasible, but not an easy task.

Gazette Male Athlete of the Year 2024 finalists: Lance McShane of Maquoketa Valley, Jack Miller of Jesup, Preston Ries of Monticello, Derek Weisskopf of Williamsburg and Brett White of Solon.

Abdul Hodge believes the Shanahan West Coast offense is a “really great system,” but Iowa still needs to be “technically and fundamentally sound.”

Northwestern has low outside expectations again this year despite last year’s unexpected success.

The dominoes are beginning to fall following 2025 football recruits’ official visits to Iowa and elsewhere last month. Here is a breakdown of who has committed and who is yet to announce a decision.

Michigan State has often been a competitive foe for Iowa football over the last two decades, but this year’s MSU team should not be too much of a challenge for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa football star and Philadelphia Eagles draftee Cooper DeJean was one of the big draws at the annual Zach Johnson Foundation Classic on Monday at Elmcrest Country Club in Cedar Rapids.

Scott Brickman, Iowa’s first in-house NIL general manager, helps the Hawkeyes with an “important piece” of the NIL puzzle.

When Washington visits Kinnick on Oct. 12, the Huskies will have a much different look from the team that went to the College Football Playoff last year.

Iowa State hasn’t been able to get out of its own way against Iowa, and has lost six of seven meetings in the series in often gut-wrenching ways. Will the 2024 rendition of the rivalry game be any different?

Iowa tight ends and fullbacks coach Abdul Hodge is the guest on this week’s episode of the Hawk Off The Press podcast. He discussed why he started coaching, what he learned as an entrepreneur, what to expect from the Hawkeyes’ new offense and the tight ends in particular, what stands out about Iowa’s 2004 team, recruiting in Florida and more.

The Hawkeyes now have 12 scholarship commitments in their 2025 recruiting class. More could be coming soon.