The 2023 Iowa football team is one head coach Kirk Ferentz will talk about “10 years from now.” And it’s not because of what this year’s squad has achieved but how they managed to do it. Enduring a preseason gambling scandal that has kept defensive lineman Noah Shannon out the entire season, losing four.
So I've done a little scouting on Iowa, but I can't tell you how they won 10 games. This is not the same Iowa team we saw in the B1GC two years ago. Iowa has the worst offense in the country.literally, they rank dead last. 130th. They're 24 yards per game behind 129th. Their defense? Solid as always, but it's not PSU or OSU and Iowa got to play against the B1G West.Iowa lost to PSU, 31-0 and they didn't play Michigan, OSU, or Maryland.
1. New-look Nebraska While the 2023 season was obviously less than perfect for the Cornhuskers, Friday will be their last chance to secure six wins for the first time since 2015. Under new head coach Matt Rhule, Nebraska has had a relatively similar year as Iowa: an offense ranking in the bottom third of the.
Kaleb Johnson’s 30-yard touchdown run with 4:43 to play gave Iowa a 15-13 win over Illinois on Saturday, clinching the Big Ten West Division title for the Hawkeyes. Iowa (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) won its third division title, and its second in three years, earning a trip to the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 2 in Indianapolis. Drew Stevens, though, missed the extra point, giving Illinois (5-6, 3-5) a chance to win the game with a field goal.