Top 10 Iowa Games

[hawkeyes87]

That Nebraska team was expected to play for the National Championship.

And they did. #4 Neb lost to #1 Clemson in their bowl. Since #2 & 3 lost their bowls, Neb probably would have been champs w/ a win.

 

[Northside Hawk]

Well, based on the 1st line of his post I'm thinking he meant the list as games seen in person. Probably leaves 1982 Bloomington off almost all lists.

NC's list is much more HF / KF balanced than mine, and more impressive. I haven't been to a game for a long time.

And I definitely had to use wiki for this, as my memories of most of these are pretty minimal- due to the passing years and the fact that in my college days Saturday's events were usually already blurry at best by the time I managed to roll out of bed Sunday afternoon..

1981 UCLA- the earliest Hawk game I remember attending was pretty significant
1983 OSU- likewise my 1st game as a student (1st win over them in 20+ years)
1983 @WIS- my 1st Hawk road game, CR was great
1984 PSU- they'd end up barely .500, but coming to Kinnick they were #12 to the Hawks #5.
And they were Penn freakin State. Cool to have them there.
1985 MSU- nuf said
1985 @WIS- 1st road game as #1
1985 MICH- other than the end, the main thing I remember is it WAS crowded.
In the section I was in, we all had to stand, & angle toward one end or the other.
To angle toward the other end took a group effort.
1985 ILL- I had lots of friends from the Chi area, and they had lots of visitors for that game,
so to bounce back (post-OSU) w/ a beatdown like that was awesome.
35-0 after 1, 49-0 at half! Man I miss stomping teams!
1986 PUR- notably only for the early lead PU got when some DB went 100+ w/ a pick.
Poholsky danced w/ my gf once that year, so I had a bit of a grudge.
That DB, Rod Woodson, was pretty good though!
1991 @OSU- my only post-grad game was a good one.
My 3 buddies and I scalped tickets at the game, so we weren't in any Iowa section.
And we ended up w/ 2 sets of 2.
So we were veeery careful about how we cheered! No problems though.

Rod Woodson may have been the best football player I saw vs Iowa until Saqueon Barkley arrived. And Rod kept it going in the NFL. Well shall see how Barkley does.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Why would you go to CR in football season w/o warm clothes?

In '83 it was nice and sunny. And, that was my 1st non-Kinnick cfb game. I was with family so didn't really experience Madison.

'85 wasn't as nice, but I was with friends so the pre-game experience had us pretty immune to the weather.

Why go to CR w/ warm clothes? To get drunk and watch football, of course!

 

[hawkeyes87]

Rod Woodson may have been the best football player I saw vs Iowa until Saqueon Barkley arrived. And Rod kept it going in the NFL. Well shall see how Barkley does.

Well there was that other Woodson at Michigan- he had a pretty good pro career as well.

But yeah hopefully Barkley represents the B1G w/ a long and productive career. History of PSU backs is not great. I thought KiJana Carter was gonna be a star...

 

[HawkGold]

All 10 votes to 1981 Nebraska.

 

[Northside Hawk]

All 10 votes to 1981 Nebraska.

That game definitely set the tone, and introduced Reggie Roby to the World. What a weapon to have

 

[Northside Hawk]

Well there was that other Woodson at Michigan- he had a pretty good pro career as well.

But yeah hopefully Barkley represents the B1G w/ a long and productive career. History of PSU backs is not great. I thought KiJana Carter was gonna be a star...

Rod was better in my opinion but Charles was certainly no slouch. Penn State does have a decent stable of backs if you go back a ways. Lydell Mitchell, Franco Harris, Curt Warner, Larry Johnson. KiJana tore his ACL in a preseason game his rookie year and fought uphill from there, not having much of a career.

Rod Woodson was as good an athlete as he was a player. I believe he made a serious run at qualifying for 110 high hurdles in the 1984 Olympic Games. Greatest athlete I've ever seen, and this could be another thread, Bo Jackson, hands down. He was on track for the hall of fame in two professional sports. He was a world class sprinter. He long jumped 26 feet. He held powerlifting records at Auburn. Was possibly the fastest player to ever set foot on an NFL field. But Chuck Long should have won Bo's Heisman trophy.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Rod was better in my opinion but Charles was certainly no slouch. Penn State does have a decent stable of backs if you go back a ways. Lydell Mitchell, Franco Harris, Curt Warner, Larry Johnson. KiJana tore his ACL in a preseason game his rookie year and fought uphill from there, not having much of a career.

Rod Woodson was as good an athlete as he was a player. I believe he made a serious run at qualifying for 110 high hurdles in the 1984 Olympic Games. Greatest athlete I've ever seen, and this could be another thread, Bo Jackson, hands down. He was on track for the hall of fame in two professional sports. He was a world class sprinter. He long jumped 26 feet. He held powerlifting records at Auburn. Was possibly the fastest player to ever set foot on an NFL field. But Chuck Long should have won Bo's Heisman trophy.

Kijana Carter not only tore his ACL in his very first preseason game, he tore it on his first frigging carry. Talk about awful turn of events...