Growing up in southeastern Iowa, Cam Buffington has always wanted to play football at the University of Iowa. He dreamed of one day possibly playing for the Hawkeyes and running out of the tunnel with Back In Black blaring on the sound system.On Saturday his dream reaches a new level as he will star
All of the focus has been on the Hawkeyes and who they will be starting at quarterback on Saturday, but as it turns out, it’s not the only quarterback battle that is still in progress. Northern Illinois has released their depth chart for the season-opener against the Hawkeyes, but it’s a three-way ‘
September has arrived, folks – and that means we’re only two months from the start of a brand-new Iowa wrestling season.Be it then (or perhaps not for a while after) several questions will need answering for the 2026-27 Hawkeyes to reach their full potential.Having said that, there’s no rule against
The Big Ten on Tuesday announced expanded access to the football replay review process for select games during the 2026 season. Beginning Sept. 4, Friday broadcasts of conference home games will have access to live audio between the game referee and replay official during reviews, as well as a view
Welcome to the showJared Simpson. After getting promoted to Triple-A Rochester back in July, Nationals reporter Spencer Nusbaum reports that Simpson has been called up by the Washington Nationals. MLB rosters expand from 26 to 28 on September 1st, which paved the way for Simpson, as well as infielde
One of the more interesting additions to the Iowa roster from the transfer portal during this cycle was running back LJ Phillips. The South Dakota transfer was incredibly productive last year, rushing for over 1900 yards and 19 touchdowns in the 2025 season. Now he is in Iowa City playing for the Ha
One of the positions on the Iowa football team where there are plenty of questions is the defensive line. The group lost plenty of talent and snaps to graduation after last season and the task since the start of spring ball has been to find replacements for those veteran players.One of the more expe
Game week has arrived for the Iowa Hawkeyes and Tuesday it took one step closer to it actually happening. It’s Tuesday in Iowa City and that means the Iowa players are meeting with the media to give their thoughts on fall camp, the race to find a starting quarterback, and yes, even some opinions on
CBS Sports revealed a new2027 NFL Mock Draft as the college football season begins, via Mike Renner. It features all 32 picks of the first round in a projected order, since no games have been played yet!This is a deep class coming up, featuring top quarterbacks, elite pass rushers and high quality p
By Tory BrechtI guess you can start calling me Torbstradamus.Doing a little AI-aided research ahead of my annual season prediction column, I was curious what my five-year accuracy average looked like.Pretty, pretty good! Pretty good:Amusingly, the chat robot I had help me compile this table this tab
The first official game week for the Iowa Hawkeyes has arrived! That can mean only one thing, the first two deeps of the season for the Iowa football team. There was plenty of news made in the two deeps today, including the much discussed quarterback position.A starter was not named on Monday by Kir
It’s been a crazy last few days across the NFL, with teams making roster move after roster move to ensure that they are in compliance with the 53-man roster limit going into the season. It’s a stressful time of year for many players, as the fate of their pro-football career, at least for this season
Less than a week away from Week 1 of the college football season,David Pollackhas re-ranked the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll to his liking. This included Pollack crowning a new preseason No. 1, and crafting an entirely new top-five.$19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coveragePollack, in
With September nearly upon us, we’re still two months (and then some) away from answering several questions regarding the upcoming Iowa wrestling season(s).But that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to start asking those questions!So, here I am – asking ‘em so you don’t have to.Over the next two days I’ll
The college football odds are out on thePolymarket Appfor Week 1 of the regular season featuring point spreads and percentages for the winner of each game. It’s time to dive into a full slate.The full slate of games is available on the Polymarket App for those to scan and predict. Users can look at
The college football odds are out on thePolymarket Appfor Week 1 of the regular season featuring point spreads and percentages for the winner of each game. It’s time to dive into a full slate.The full slate of games is available on the Polymarket App for those to scan and predict. Users can look at
Although we still have 13 days until the majority of NFL teams kick off the regular season, the last three weeks have been a bit of an appetizer with preseason games going on. For Iowa Football, nearly 50 former players began the preseason on rosters, with some already locked in to start for the res
A half-dozen Hawkeye alums flocked to Warsaw, Poland this week for one final international tournament of the summer.There, at the Poland Open/Wacław Ziolkowski Memorial, both Macey Kilty and Michael Caliendo reached the finals – earning silver medals. And with complementary bronze efforts from Austi
A half-dozen Hawkeye alums flocked to Warsaw, Poland this week for one final international tournament of the summer.There, at the Poland Open/Wacław Ziolkowski Memorial, both Macey Kilty and Michael Caliendo reached the finals – earning silver medals. And with complementary bronze efforts from Austi
The Iowa Field Hockey season is underway, and the 11th-ranked Hawkeyes are off to a tremendous start. Opening with the always difficult and competitive Big Ten/ACC Challenge, they erased a 3-0 halftime deficit, defeating 7th-ranked Wake Forest in overtime on Friday. Then, on Sunday morning, the Hawk
The Pittsburgh Steelers are trading running backKaleb Johnsonto the Green Bay Packers,ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported. The news comes after Johnson shared a post on Instagram hinting at a move.Pittsburgh drafted Johnson out ofIowalast year after he put together a standout career with the Hawkeyes. He
The NCAA Division I FBS Oversight Committee adopted proposals that will significantly alter the college football calendar beginning next year, the NCAA announced Friday. Among those changes are a 10-day January transfer portal window, moving up the start of the season, and a new offseason practice m
In 2025,Indianachanged the landscape of college football by capturing their first national championship. The Hoosiers became the first inaugural national champion sinceFloridain 1996, showing what can be possible for programs willing to invest and build the right roster.With that in mind,ESPN’sBill
In the states, we call it a rivalry. In Europe, Iowa and Iowa State facing off on the pitch would be considered the Cy-Hawk Derby. Whatever you want to call it, the Hawkeyes dominated in Ames, defeating the Cyclones 2-0 on Thursday evening. With the win, Iowa moves to 4-1-0 on the season.I-🐤-W-Apic.
It’s a jam packed new podcast as we head back into the start of the Iowa Hawkeyes Football season. We start the show by visiting with Northern Illinois play by play man Andy Garcia. The Huskies have had quite a bit of change heading into this season. We discuss their move to the Mountain West and th
With the official start of the 2026 college football season just days away,The Athletic‘sDane Bruglerdetermined it was the perfect time to look ahead at next year’sNFL Draft. On Wednesday, Brugler revealed his initial ranking of college football’s Top 50 draft-eligible prospects ahead of the upcomin
IowaOLTrevor Lauck,OklahomaWRIsaiah Sategna III, andBaylorWRDre’lon Millerhave signed NIL deals withCasey’sfor the 2026 college football season. Casey’s is America’s fifth-largest pizza chain, known for its breakfast pizza, and is bringing back 40 percent off any-size pizza every Saturday from Aug.
The Big Ten formally announced conference commissionerTony Petittihas been awarded a new five-year contract extension that will keep him with the NCAA’s most lucrative league through June 2033. Petitti has been the Big Ten commissioner since May 2023 and has been responsible for some of the league’s
With fall camp just about wrapped up for the Iowa football team, Kirk Ferentz spent about 15 minutes on Wednesday after practice to update several position battles and also at least one significant injury update from fall camp.Ferentz gives a pretty detailed update on the race to decide the starting
One of the great traditions prior to every college football season are the preseason bowl projections. There are bold predictions, dumb predictions and very few predictions that actually end up being correct when December rolls around, but it’s still fun to look through the various articles and see
