1. Insight Bowl 2011: Key Matchups for the Iowa Hawkeyes Against Oklahoma

    This bowl season, the Iowa Hawkeyes will suit up against the Oklahoma Sooners . The Hawks will attempt to win their fourth bowl game in a row, and this might be the tallest bowl game task in the Kirk Ferentz era...

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  2. Iowa Football: Norm Parker's 8 Best Defensive Performances as a Hawkeye

    This year's Insight Bowl matchup against Oklahoma will be the last time Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker calls the plays...

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  3. Iowa Football: Is There More to Marcus Coker's Suspension Than Meets the Eye?

    I'm going to take Hawkeye fans back a few years to a dark place. It is 2007 and a number of Hawkeyes found themselves in trouble with the law...

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  4. From Evy to Ferentz: 5 Biggest Bowl Wins in Iowa Hawkeye Football History

    On Dec. 30, the Iowa Hawkeyes will participate in their 26th bowl game ever. They have a 14-10-1 record in bowl games, with a 3-4 record in major—Rose Bowl or BCS bowls—bowl games...

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  5. College Football: 10 Individual Bowl Matchups That Will Affect the NFL Draft

    The bowl games are not only the last game of the season, but they are also the last chance soon-to-be-pro players have to impress scouts in a real-game situation...

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  6. Iowa Football: Who Will Replace Norm Parker as Hawks' Defensive Coordinator?

    This past weekend, storied Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker announced his retirement, effective after the Hawks' Insight Bowl game against Oklahoma. Parker has been with Iowa since Kirk Ferentz became the head coach in 1999...

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  7. 2011-12 College Football Bowl Schedule: Power Ranking Every Game

    It's bowl season. Seventy of the best teams in the nation will square off to give us one more month of college football...

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  8. Iowa Hawkeye Football: Why Minnesota Game Is More Important Than Insight Bowl

    For the second season in a row, a 7-5 Iowa team will head into bowl season facing off against a seemingly much better, ranked opponent. Last season, it was the Insight Bowl against No...

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  9. Iowa to Insight Bowl: A Guide to the Matchup vs. Oklahoma

    The stars appear to have aligned for the second season in a row. For the second straight season, the Iowa Hawkeyes will travel to the Insight Bowl, where they will face a team that, on paper, appears to be much better than them...

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  10. 2011 Final BCS Poll: Ranking Each Top 25 Team's Strength of Schedule

    I put together this system at the end of the 2010 regular season , and, as I said at the time, I went into it with certain preconceived notions...

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  11. NCAA Football: 2011 All-Big Ten Football Team

    The Big Ten's inaugural conference championship game will pit the Michigan State Spartans against the Wisconsin Badgers. Perhaps it is an unlikely pairing for the conference of Michigan and Ohio State...

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  12. Iowa Football: End of the Season Good, Bad and Ugly for the Hawkeyes

    With the regular season over, Iowa Hawkeyes fans look at their 7-5 team and are still asking the same questions they had following the team's overtime loss to in-state rival Iowa ...

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  13. BCS Bowl Predictions: How Michigan Can Get Squeezed out of the BCS Bowl Picture

    With the Wolverines' big win over OSU, most Michigan fans probably feel that their team wrapped up a sure BCS berth...

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  14. Iowa Football: Key Matchups When the Hawks Play Nebraska

    Iowa is 7-4. Nebraska is 8-3. Iowa fans wanted more for their team, but they can hardly complain given that it is a rebuilding year, and the Hawks are now in a position to win eight games...

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  15. Iowa Football: Bowl Predictions for the Hawkeyes Following Win over Purdue

    Iowa stumbled through its seventh win of the year against its hated rival, Purdue. That makes win No. 7, and while win No. 6 secured bowl eligibility, this victory iced it, and let's face it, seven wins is a lot more respectable than six...

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  16. Iowa Football: Key Matchups When the Hawks Play Purdue

    Forget Michigan-Ohio State. Forget Auburn-Bama. Forget USC-Notre Dame. This is the biggest rivalry in all of college football, and the Big Ten recognized that when they decided on inter-divisional protected rivals ...

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  17. Iowa Football: The Hawkeyes Are out-Iowa'ed by Michigan State

    In the better years and the better games of the Ferentz era, the Hawks have won by a few simple rules. They have played fundamentally sound football on both sides of the ball...

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  18. Iowa Football: Key Matchups When the Hawks Play Michigan State

    The Hawkeyes come into the Nov. 12 showdown against Michigan State with some momentum behind them. Last week, they beat the winningest program in the history of college football for the third time in a row...

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  19. College Football: 25 Hunches for Week 11

    The Badgers' undefeated hopes went down the drain against Michigan State. Their division championship hopes took a tough turn against Northwestern...

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  20. Iowa Football: Bowl Projections for the Hawkeyes

    On Saturday, Nov. 5, the Iowa Hawkeyes accomplished an historical first. They beat the Michigan Wolverines three times in a row. But even more than that, the Hawks, with red, white and blue tigerhawks emblazoned on their helmets, won one for America...

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  21. BCS Standings: Strengths and Weaknesses of Every Top 25 Team

    We are down to the final month of the BCS season. Most of the scrubs have been weeded out of the polls, and the teams that remain have, for the most part, earned their places...

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  22. Iowa Football: Key Matchups When the Hawks Play Michigan

    This Saturday, Iowa suits up against Michigan, the No. 15 team in the country. After last week's loss to dismal—and formerly 1-6—Minnesota, it is hard to imagine the Hawks getting by Michigan...

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  23. Iowa Football: Special Teams Continue to Haunt Hawks in Minnesota Loss

    There were about 1,000 things that went wrong in the Hawks 21-22 loss to the hapless Minnesota Golden Gophers...

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  24. Iowa Football: Key Matchups When the Hawks Play Minnesota

    This week, the Hawks suit up for their annual rivalry game against Minnesota, in which the two teams meet up for one of the more interesting rivalry trophies in all of college sports ...

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  25. College Football: Analyzing Top Teams' Paths to BCS National Championship Game

    It is almost the last weekend in October. The first BCS rankings came out over a week ago, and since then, a number of major shakeups have occurred, as both Oklahoma and Wisconsin fell from the ranks of the unbeaten...

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