We love our football in this country. Baseball may be America’s game, but football is America’s way of life. While that holds true in the NFL, nothing quite compares to a college football gameday in your traditional college town. And nowhere is that more true than in Iowa City, Iowa.
A bustling town of fewer than 100,000 inhabitants, inclusive of the 30,000 students, Iowa City is the essence of a college town. If not for the students and the staff, there would be no town at all. And unlike your traditional land-grant university, the University of Iowa is fully integrated with the city of Iowa City with university buildings sprinkled throughout downtown, amidst the bars, restaurants and small businesses that make small town America great.