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    Who Did THIS Scheduling?

    I know that nobody consults the women's schedules when finalizing the men's schedules, and vice versa, but I don't think I have ever seen this. On Thursday, the Iowa men will play (the current) #1, and the Iowa women will play (the current) #2 - with the games tipping off 30 minutes apart, both...
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    How Special Is This Group??

    This group is special enough that: +They won the regular season championship despite losing at home to Northwestern (and IUPUI), and then won the conference tournament despite the fact that Caitlin Clark led us in scoring in only one of the three games; +They led the 14-team Big 10 in...
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    WHAT IDIOT SCHEDULED OUR GAME AGAINST OREGON???

    After playing an evening game on Saturday, the hallowed tradition of moving Iowa all the way up to the front of the line for their 2nd-round game has been maintained. We play Oregon Monday morning at 11 AM on CBS. I thought they quit doing this crap long ago. It seemed to be a preferred...
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    Drake-UNI Ordered Cancelled by City of St. Louis

    OK, I know this isn't Hawkeye basketball. But with a number of the Big Ten conference tournaments taking place at various venues in the next few days, this should make you sit up and pay attention. Apparently, while UNI had been keeping to proper Missouri Valley COVID regulations and...
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    The Annual "Fran Fade" Has Started - AGAIN - This Needs to be the Last One

    I keep looking at this Iowa men's team, and I barely recognize them. Early in the season, there wasn't one team in the B1G that even slightly scared me. Our team was easily better than all of them. I don't know where that team went, but I haven't seen it in weeks. Yes, I know - the...
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    COVID Report Out of the U. of I. Monday

    Sources are saying that there were "14 confirmed positive tests" for COVID today in the U. of I. athletic department, at least some of them in the football program. I wish I had more specifics, but for now, that is probably all we will hear out of the athletic department. But after KFz's...
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    What Happens Sunday and When?

    Anybody have any idea what will happen Sunday and when? I haven't heard that there will be that (utterly ridiculous) 3-4 hr. selection show - with bowls involving Iowa added near the tail end. But something has to happen.
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    I'm Thinking About Those Kids "Up There" This Fall

    Do I (like anyone) know what is going to happen this Fall? Of course not. And yes, I know that, prior to the last few years there was no such thing as "the wave". But now that it is in place, it is unthinkable to me to envision the stands at Kinnick to be anything less than jammed full of...
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    HAYDEN FRY'S (AND IOWA'S) ALL-TIME #1

    OCTOBER 19TH, 1985: #1 IOWA 12, #2 Michigan 10. Talking about this game is a little like talking about Christmas. What more can you say that hasn’t already been said? Well, I’m going to give it a shot. First, there was a quote in a college football magazine, looking back at the 1985 season...
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    REVIEW - "Hayden's 'Top 10'" - #10 to #2

    #10: DECEMBER 26TH, 1984 – THE FREEDOM BOWL: IOWA 55, #19 Texas 17. Probably the all-time favorite of Hayden himself as the Texas boy leaves the Longhorns collective bells rung. #9: DECEMBER 30TH, 1986 – THE HOLIDAY BOWL: #19 IOWA 39, San Diego State 38. One of the most exciting games...
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    Hayden Fry's "Top Five" - #2

    OCTOBER 17TH, 1981: #12 IOWA 9, (at #5) Michigan 7. In just under 18 months, Hawk fans will celebrate the 40th anniversary of this nearly historic team. I do hope that it is a celebration of celebrations. And maybe – just maybe – when they celebrate this particular victory, maybe by then the...
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    Hayden Fry's "Top Five" - #3

    SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1981 – IOWA 10, #6 Nebraska 7. After showing so much promise in Hayden’s first season in Iowa City, the Hawkeyes regressed badly in the 1980 season, making Iowa fans wonder if what they really got in Hayden Fry was just more of the same. But that all disappeared in the...
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    Hayden Fry's "TOP FIVE" - #4

    DECEMBER 29TH, 1995 – THE SUN BOWL: IOWA 38, #20 Washington 18. With Iowa’s victory in the Holiday Bowl four months ago, the Hawkeyes did two things. First, they squared their bowl record in the Fry–Ferentz era at 15–15–1, which doesn’t sound that great, but actually makes Iowa one of only...
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    AND NOW - Hayden Fry's "TOP FIVE" - #5

    NOVEMBER 21ST, 1981 – (#19) IOWA 36, Michigan State 7. It’s too bad that, by now, virtually everyone who knows exactly where they were and what they were doing that day is at least 50 year old. And considering Iowa had not only played in, but actually won two Rose Bowls 25 years before that...
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    Hayden Fry's "TOP TEN" - #6

    NOVEMBER 3RD, 1990 – #13 IOWA 54, (at) #5 Illinois 28. It is only fitting that this game occupies one of the top slots. Lest we forget, while most of the attention on Hayden’s top games goes to the Rose Bowl seasons of 1981 and their top-rated team from 1985, Hayden’s teams represented the Big...
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    Hayden Fry's "TOP TEN" - #7

    NOVEMBER 14TH, 1981 - IOWA 17, (at) Wisconsin 7. The path that led Iowa to break the iron grip of the "Big 2, Little 8" had to go through Madison, Wisconsin that year. But on this day, the second-last week of the 1981 season, it was the Badger fans who had already started to count the miles...
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    Hayden Fry's "Top Ten" - #8

    SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1983 - #7 IOWA 20, #3 Ohio State 14. By the time Hayden and his team reached their home opener for this season, they had beaten every Big 10 school - and had just beaten future B1G member Penn State in State College the week before - every school EXCEPT Ohio State. And it sure...
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    Hayden Fry's "TOP TEN" - #9

    DECEMBER 30TH, 1986 - THE HOLIDAY BOWL: #19 IOWA 39, San Diego State 38. The most exciting and tense bowl game in the Hayden Fry era. Iowa, essentially having to play a true road game for a bowl game, spent most of the night play catch-up, as Aztec Jr. QB Todd Santos, who had finished the...
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    AND NOW: Hayden Fry's "TOP TEN" - #10

    DECEMBER 26TH, 1984, THE FREEDOM BOWL: IOWA 55, #19 Texas 17. I have to give some space here to one of the game's identified as Hayden's all-time favorites. Having come from Texas, he knew the pedigree and reputation of Texas - and knew what such a school thought of the schools Hayden had...
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    Review - Hayden Fry's "Top 25" - H.M. to #11

    Since these have been coming over the course of the last month, let me review what I placed from "honorable mention" all the way to #11. I will post the first of the top 10 shortly. HONORABLE MENTIONS - *October 5th, 1985: #1 IOWA 35, Michigan State 31; *September 26th, 1981: IOWA 20, #6 UCLA...
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