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Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com IOWA CITY -- While the weather forecast calls for temperatures tumbling into the 30s Saturday night at Kinnick Stadium, Iowa football players are preparing for something completely [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Michigan 10, Iowa 3 Iowa;0;3;0;0;--;3 Michigan;10;0;0;0;--;10 First quarter Michigan - Jake Moody 28-yard FG. Drive - 8 plays, 4 yards, 1:22. Time remaining - 12:19. Key play [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Statistics Iowa 48, Middle Tennessee 3 Middle Tennessee;0;0;3;0;--;3 Iowa;17;7;10;14;--;48 First quarter Iowa - Mekhi Sargent 4-yard run. Keith Duncan kick. Drive - 9 plays, 65 yards, 3:59. [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Key play Iowa had moved the ball to the Middle Tennessee State 28-yard line when it found itself in a third-and-9 situation on its opening drive of [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com IOWA CITY -- One item at a time, Daviyon Nixon has been checking firsts off his list. First career tackle? That came during his first game for [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Generally speaking, there wasn't a lot of meat on the bone over the weekend on most college football fields across the country. There were a handful of [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Key play Trailing 14-6 and facing a third-and-22 situation midway through the third quarter, Iowa quarterback Nate Stanley hit Ihmir Smith-Marsette with a 27-yard pass to move [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Iowa 18, Iowa State 17 Iowa;3;3;3;8;--;18 Iowa State;7;0;7;3;--;17 First quarter Iowa -- Keith Duncan 25-yard FG. Drive -- 15 plays, 68 yards, 7:23. Time remaining -- 7:37. [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Iowa 30, Rutgers 0 Rutgers;0;0;0;0;--;0 Iowa;7;13;7;3;--;30 First quarter Iowa - Ihmir Smith-Marsette 58-yard pass from Nate Stanley. Keith Duncan kick. Drive - 5 plays, 75 yards, 2:42. [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com What: Iowa State (1-0) Where: Jack Trice Stadium, Ames, Iowa When: Saturday, 3 p.m. TV: FS1 More from this section Wyoming at Texas State: Crunching Numbers Four-down [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com IOWA CITY -- Kaevon Merriweather walked out of Kinnick Stadium on Saturday night with a full understanding of the shoes he's trying to fill. 'This isn't an [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com What: Rutgers (1-0) Where: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City When: Saturday, 11 a.m. TV: FS1 More from this section Vikings saved Chicago Bears from themselves by trading a [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com IOWA CITY -- Kirk Ferentz figures it goes with the territory in a season-opening game. When the 21st Iowa football team Ferentz has coached kicks off the [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com IOWA CITY -- With Oliver Martin cleared for immediate eligibility by the NCAA and Big Ten, the focus shifts to how the Michigan transfer can help the [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Big Ten football teams will begin chasing a larger and more geographically diverse collection of bowl opportunities beginning in the 2020 season. The conference announced Tuesday [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Isaiah Bruce caught the attention of Iowa football coaches during a camp last summer in Iowa City. Because he did, that allowed Hawkeye assistant coach Seth [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Iowa's latest football commitment makes a quick impression. One day after being offered a scholarship, running back Leshon Williams of Illinois Class 6A power Oak Lawn [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Iowa filled the vacancy on its football coaching staff by hiring a veteran coach whose two sons already know about being a Hawkeye. Jay Niemann, the [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> IOWA CITY -- LeVar Woods doesn't sit up a night, scribbling the latest special-teams gimmick for the Iowa football team on a scrap of paper. Now [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> History helped Iowa's newest football commitment find his future. Highly recruited Elijah Yelverton, a Texas tight end who had his pick of three dozen Football Bowl [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com IOWA CITY -- Reese Morgan always understood that there was more to being a football player than how tall you stood or how much you weighed. The [...]

Byline: STEVE BATTERSONsbatterson@qctimes.com In interviews Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine, Iowa tight end Noah Fant said that this was his moment. Saturday, he proved it. Fant and Hawkeye teammate [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com NFL draft analysts find a lot to like about Iowa tight ends T.J. Hockenson and Noah Fant. Among four Hawkeyes who will participate in the NFL Scouting [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comIt didn't take long for Iowa's latest football commitment to say 'yes.'When Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz offered Cedar Rapids Xavier linebacker Ethan Hurkett a scholarship during the Hawkeyes' [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comIowa continues to add pieces to its 2019 football recruiting class, and Saturday it added a graduate transfer in an area of need.Zach VanValkenburg, named the defensive lineman [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comIOWA CITY -- Iowa gained a voice on the College Football Playoff selection committee on Friday.Gary Barta, a former college quarterback now in his 12th year as the [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comIOWA CITY -- Iowa addressed needs on the opening day of college football's February signing period, adding a defensive lineman, defensive back and punter to a 2019 recruiting [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>Even before Amani Hooker and Anthony Nelson announced plans to leave early for the NFL draft, Kirk Ferentz suggested any February additions to Iowa's 2019 football recruiting class [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>Iowa added an experienced leg Friday to the collection of candidates who will compete for the starting punting job for the 2019 season.Michael Sleep-Dalton, the starting punter at [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comIowa added an experienced leg Friday to the collection of candidates who will compete for the starting punting job for the 2019 season.Michael Sleep-Dalton, the starting punter at [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>For six players in Iowa's 2019 football recruiting class, the future begins now.A program-record six recruits who signed with the Hawkeyes in December are getting a head start [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>Regarded as the top prospect among current juniors in Iowa high school football programs, Gavin Williams will stay in the state to play at the next level.The 6-foot, [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>Regarded as the top prospect among current juniors in Iowa high school football programs, Gavin Williams will stay in the state to play at the next level.The 6-foot, [...]

class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>TAMPA, Fla. -- Iowa's Outback Bowl game Tuesday was more than a football game for the parents of Hawkeye senior and Davenport native Jake Gervase.It was a chance to celebrate [...]

class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>TAMPA, Fla. -- Iowa's Outback Bowl game Tuesday was more than a football game for the parents of Hawkeye senior and Davenport native Jake Gervase.It was a chance to celebrate [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.comclass='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'>Iowa's football season will end in familiar territory, playing in the Outback Bowl for the sixth time in 15 years, while Iowa State will complete its season for [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Iowa defensive backs Matt Hankins and Trey Creamer have been suspended from all team activities for one week after being charged early Sunday morning by Iowa [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Two Iowa defensive backs who did not travel with the Hawkeyes for Saturday's game at Penn State were charged early Sunday morning by Iowa City police [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> What: Purdue (4-4, 3-2) Where: Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, Ind. When: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. TV: ABC or ESPN2 More from this section BYU offense vs. Northern [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Penn State 30, Iowa 24 Iowa;12;5;0;7;--;24 Penn State;7;10;10;3;--;30 First quarter Iowa -- Safety. Time remaining -- 14:08. Key play -- Dominique Dafney blocked a Blake Gillikin [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Geno Stone made the most of his Pennsylvania homecoming Saturday. The sophomore safety recorded Iowa's first pick-six of the season, returning an [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Key play Driving toward a potential go-ahead touchdown near the end of a struggle-filled day for Nate Stanley, Nick Scott steps in front of a pass [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> What: Penn State (5-2, 2-2) Where: Beaver Stadium, University Park, Pa. When: Saturday, 2:30 p.m. TV: ABC or ESPN More from this section Arizona Wildcats land [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> What: Maryland (4-2, 2-1) Where: Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City When: Saturday, 11 a.m. TV: ESPN2 More from this section Estranged relatives of late Saints owner Tom [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Key play Geno Stone found himself in the right place at the right time. With an Indiana offense known for its big-play ability threatening a comeback [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Up next What: Indiana (4-2, 1-2) Where: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. When: Saturday, 11 a.m. More from this section Packers rookie receivers ready to roll if [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com class='asset-contentsubscriber-premium'> Key play Minnesota had cut the Iowa lead to 31-24 following a touchdown with 7 minutes, 36 seconds remaining in the third quarter, but Ihmir Smith-Marsette [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com A backup at Iowa the past three seasons, Tyler Wiegers is returning to his home state looking for an opportunity to play in the final season of [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com It's all about the timing. After putting together one of the best seasons an Iowa cornerback has ever had, Josh Jackson believes the time is right to [...]

Byline: Steve Battersonsbatterson@qctimes.com Iowa cornerback Josh Jackson is taking his game to the next level. The junior who led the nation with eight interceptions in his only season as a [...]