A year of new faces, a new quarterback, and shuffling across the board has the Iowa Hawkeyes' offense set up for a multitude of outcomes that will define their success in 2026.
Iowa Hawkeyes' infielder Kooper Schulte was drafted by the New York Mets in the 20th round with the No. 600 overall pick in the 2026 MLB Draft. Schulte batted .274 this past season and started in all 56 games for Iowa.
It's natural. The quarterback battle is going to command the attention of every headline and conversation about the Iowa Hawkeyes entering 2026. Is it going to be Hank Brown or Jeremy Hecklinski starting in Week 1?
The Iowa Hawkeyes open the 2026 slate with three very manageable games, and if we can all be honest with each other, anything besides 3-0 before Big Ten play opens up could realistically write off any College Football Playoff chances for this team.
As they say: you play the game on the field. Still, the numbers and data like to paint a picture of teams on paper with analytics, metrics, and predictions.
Is Kirk Ferentz on the hot seat for the Iowa Hawkeyes? No. Never. He gets to be the one and only person who decides when he is done as Iowa's head coach.
Kinnick Stadium is as iconic a college football stadium as any in America. Having opened in 1929, the home of the Iowa Hawkeyes is nearing its 100th birthday, despite plenty of changes over the years.
Bowl projections? In July? Before training camp has even begun? You bet. That's college football, baby. Predicting where teams are finishing and how successful a season they are going to have is nearly as much fun as playing the actual games.
As the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team prepares for the third year under head coach Jan Jensen, there is a combination of roster shuffling and a postseason sense of urgency building.
Fantasy football is synonymous with the NFL. It drives ratings and creates an entire ecosystem of football discourse. So, why not bring it to the college football world?
The days of stopping teams outright in football are becoming few and far between. The talent level on offense is only getting better each year, with more speed and size across the board.
You know how this goes. Iowa lands a bunch of under-recruited, lesser-known three-stars, and half of them become All-Big Ten members, a few are All-Americans, and the Hawkeyes produce yet another crop of NFL talent.
It's prediction time. The college football season is around the corner. Get your predictions ready. One of the most common predictions is the preseason top 25.
What if Iowa threw aside the cupcake non-conference games? What if they replaced them with a 12-game slate that provided week-after-week matchups made in heaven?
The 2026 season feels up in the air for the Iowa Hawkeyes with training camp looming. You know Iowa is going to find a way to get its standard eight wins, but could this be the year things take off and see the Hawkeyes hit double digits?
Week 1 is supposed to be a cupcake for the Iowa Hawkeyes, right? It's Northern Illinois. It's Iowa. This should be a tune-up game, right? Unless it suddenly isn't.
He's the grandfather of college football. He's been around for nearly three decades. He's seen the sport change more than anyone else. He's Kirk Ferentz.
You can't escape the Iowa Hawkeyes. You can run, sure, but you can't hide. Like a sort of corn-fed, field-position-loving, defense-playing grim reaper, Iowa forces the issue time and time again.
Last year, the Iowa Hawkeyes were able to put on the glass slipper and become America's darlings during the Elite 8 run in the NCAA Tournament. The magic has worn off.
Make no mistake about it, the Iowa Hawkeyes are going to will their way into at least eight wins. It's what they do. Head coach Kirk Ferentz and Iowa haven't found fewer than eight wins in a full season since 2014.
College football season is growing closer with a sense of urgency, and one telling sign of that is the growing noise around the annual release of EA Sports College Football 27.
It's a big year for the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball program coming up. I think it's more than fair to say the 2025-26 season, while impressive in the win-loss column, ended rather disappointingly.
Ferentz has sent a ton of great offensive linemen into the league, and the latest is Gennings Dunker, who was selected No. 96 overall in the 2026 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Iowa Hawkeyes are going to accept the punishment handed down to them by the NCAA for allegedly tampering with quarterback Cade McNamara before he entered the transfer portal in 2022.