Iowa Football

Iowa football’s eight returning assistant coaches have received pay raises ranging from 7 to 36 percent ahead of the 2024 season, according to updated salary data obtained by The Gazette via a public records request.

Iowa-Nebraska will be a battle of contrasts as five-star quarterback recruit Dylan Raiola goes up against Iowa’s experienced secondary.

The No. 1 kicker in the country is going to be a Hawkeye.

The Hawkeyes’ Oct. 12 game against Washington has fewer than 650 tickets available, according to Iowa sports information.

New offensive coordinator Tim Lester “really cares about the players and our perspective on the offense,” quarterback Cade McNamara told reporters this week.

Iowa football has sold out its Sept. 7 home game against Iowa State, marking the Hawkeyes’ first sellout of the 2024 season.

Iowa football and men’s basketball radio play-by-play broadcaster Gary Dolphin joins the Hawk Off The Press podcast this week. The voice of the Hawkeyes talks about Pat Angerer joining him in the booth this season, stories from working with Ed Podolak, why radio matters in Iowa, his favorite calls over the years and his future on the mic.

Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara has grown on and off the field during his injury-induced absence.

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.