Iowa Hawkeyes' Stadium Ranks Amongst Best in College Football

With the 2025 college football season just around the corner, the Iowa Hawkeyes may have a key advantage heading into week one.

USA Today's Paul Myerberg and Blake Toppmeyer recently wrote about the best college football stadiums heading into the 2025 season, with Kinnick Stadium ranking at No. 24.

"The environment at Kinnick has helped Iowa go 22-6 at home since 2021," Myerberg and Toppmeyer wrote. "It's also home to the best new tradition in the sport: Since 2017, players and fans turn at the end of the first quarter and wave to the patients at Stead Family Children’s Hospital. 'The Hawkeye Wave' is already an indelible part of the college football fabric."

The home of the Hawkeyes has been known for the place where "top-five teams go to die,” as former Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh said in an interview with The Athletic in 2022. From 2008 to 2021, Iowa held a 5-1 record against the AP top-5 opponents at home.