A knee injury to its anticipated starter during spring practice left the Albany football team scrambling to find a starting quarterback for the 2025 season. Hitting the transfer portal late provided the Great Danes with their guy. Jack Shields will start Saturday in the season opener against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium.
How much will Iowa show off in Week 1? Madison Hricik takes a look at the keys to victory.
The Gazette sports writers Madison Hricik and Mike Hlas discuss the upcoming 2025 Iowa Hawkeye Football season including their first game against University of Albany at Kinnick Stadium Saturday, August 30, 2025.
When Phillips transferred to Iowa from Chattanooga in January, he knew his presence alone wouldn’t be sufficient. The Hawkeyes receiving core has spent all training camp trying to show improvement under offensive coordinator Tim Lester’s second season and a new quarterback.
Higgins had 15 tackles for Baltimore over three preseason games, as well as an interception and a forced fumble.
The Hawkeyes play an Albany team with a new head coach and multiple transfers. Here’s how Iowa football is prepping for season-opener against brand-new Albany squad
Gronowski, 49-6 as a college starter, is likely to inflict pain on the UAlbany Great Danes Saturday similar to the hurt he and South Dakota State delivered to the Danes in the 2023 FCS playoffs
The Hawkeyes host Albany in a first-ever matchup to open the 2025 season
The Hawkeyes open the season against Albany, with positions like left tackle and cornerback starting to take shape
Brown transferred to the Hawkeye state after two seasons at Auburn, where he had just two collegiate starts and five appearances.
Senior cornerback TJ Hall has spent four years at Iowa. He’s learning how to make his last year his most consistent.
Head coach Kirk Ferentz says most of the team was in good shape to begin fall camp
Bryant Worrell began his college football at Old Dominion, where he didn’t play over two seasons. He then went to NCAA Division II Emory and Henry College in Virginia for two years, then Boston College last season. BC let him go, and he has ended up with the Hawkeyes. A circuitous journal, for sure.
The Hawkeyes lost a lot of their defensive prowess this offseason. Higgins is playing NFL preseason football with the Baltimore Ravens, Nick Jackson is doing the same with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Hawkeyes lost Kyler Fisher, too.
Defensive end Iose Epenesa was a five-star recruit coming out of high school on the Illinois side of St. Louis. But because this 2025 Iowa football team has a lot of experience up front going into the season, there is no pressure for Epenesa to see the field right away, as there was on older brother A.J., the Buffalo Bills D-end.
Iowa City West graduate Mason Woods was recruited to the Iowa football team as an athlete, someone capable of playing multiple positions. The son of former Hawkeye player and current special teams coach LeVar Woods is starting out his career as a tight end, part of an exciting group of freshmen and redshirt freshmen below experienced guys Addison Ostrenga and Zach Ortwerth on the depth chart.
Logan Jones decided to return to the University of Iowa football team for a sixth season. The Council Bluffs native anchors what should be a good offensive line at center. “The center is the most important,” offensive coordinator Tim Lester said.
Iowa fans want more from their receivers. Whether it be more usage of the receivers, a more explosive offense or simply more receiving touchdowns
Iowa football offensive coordinator Tim Lester said he’d prefer a running-back-by-committee approach this season. Part of that committee surely will be Kamari Moulton.
Parker is 40 years removed from playing in one of the more-memorable games in Kinnick Stadium history ... for the visiting team
A lot of encouraging things. Here are 5 observations we noticed about the Hawkeyes football team during Kids Day practice.
Iowa football defensive back Xavier Nwankpa earned the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week after a career game against Penn State. It’s an honor that shows his development with the Hawkeyes.
Fans got the opportunity to get their first look at the 2025-26 Hawkeye men’s and women’s basketball teams on the outdoor basketball court behind Burge Residence Hall. It’s the unofficial tipoff to the upcoming season.
The Big Ten Conference has released the conferencve dual schedule. University of Iowa hosts Wisconsin, Penn State, Minnesota and Michigan in duals for the 2025-26 men’s wrestling season.
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