Iowa’s season opening win against Utah State was an uneven performance, but this weekend’s game against Iowa State will paint a much better picture of the kind of team Iowa will have in 2023. For the past several decades, the Cy-Hawk game has been an excellent predictor of an Iowa team’s ceiling. In the past 40 years, there have only been two seasons in which Iowa has lost to ISU and gone on to win 8+ games (2002 and 2022). It has not necessarily taken a great Iowa team to beat its in-state rival, but it almost always takes a bad/mediocre Iowa team to lose to them.
Iowa at Iowa State: Cy-Hawk Football Preview
