The Iowa Hawkeyes (3-1) are off a bye and facing their toughest test of the 2024 college football season: the #3 Ohio State Buckeyes (4-0). Iowa hasn’t won in the Horseshoe since the capacity exceeded 100,000. It held a modest 91,470 when Hayden Fry took the Hawkeyes into Columbus in 1991 and came away with the 16-9 victory. Kirk Ferentz is just 2-9 against OSU but the Buckeyes are 8-2 against the Hawks under Kirk’s tenure as the 2010 victory was vacated.
The Hawkeyes maintain control of an explosive-for-them offense at 32.0 PPG. The Buckeyes have yielded just 6.