2025 Iowa Hawkeyes CFB Betting Lines
In 2024, Tim Lester took over as the new OC. For 2025, he is charged with producing a mid-level offense. If he does, Iowa could be a truly dangerous team. The Hawkeyes will need improvement, as the Big Ten has eliminated divisional play. As of now, Iowa has nowhere to hide like it used to in the former Big Ten West. Unfortunately, the results under Lester showed marginal improvement. And Iowa slipped to 8-5 in 2024.
In 2023, Iowa Hawkeyes head coach Kirk Ferentz had to swallow the bitter pill of personal loss and humiliation. Athletic director Beth Goetz fired Kirk Ferentz’s son, Brian Ferentz, as offensive coordinator. It was a long time coming. Kirk and former athletic director Gary Barta found ways around the Iowa nepotism law. When Goetz took over, she had no ties to that past or Brian. Most important of all, Iowa had one of the worst offenses in college football for the past several years. Thus, the arrangement became indefensible.
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The tragedy of Brian Ferentz’s offense was that if it had been merely mediocre, Iowa could have won multiple Big Ten championships. In 2023, Brian’s final season, with no offense at all, Iowa finished 10-4. Iowa’s best player was punter Tory Taylor. While that fact became the source of considerable humor, it was indicative of Iowa’s plight. Iowa had championship-level defense and kicking teams. But it had no offense to complement them.
Iowa has won ten or more games in a season 11 times. Eight of them have been under the guidance of Kirk Ferentz. Appearances in good bowl games have become the norm. The team committed the fewest penalties per game in all of college football; only Air Force was flagged for fewer yards. There were no problems with turnovers, yet Iowa still lost to UCLA and Michigan State. If last year's team had beaten the Bruins and Spartans, both of whom finished with losing seasons, it would have been a ten-win campaign.
The Hawkeyes were strong in 2024, but five of their eight wins came against teams that finished with a record under .500, another was against Illinois State from the FCS, and another was against a mediocre Nebraska squad. And that's been part of the formula for Iowa. It usually beats all of the teams it's supposed to.
This year, Oregon will finish with more than seven wins. So will Penn State, and so will a few other good teams on the Iowa slate. So, no, Iowa might not reach ten wins without a little help, but it's 2025. It's an unusual year in many ways. For a program overdue to make the College Football Playoff and put itself in a position to win every year, it might just play its way into something special.
It's another Iowa team that should be rock-solid in several areas, but this one has a better passing game to complement its other positives. This won't be a ten-win season, but it'll be another strong campaign.
2025 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Schedule
| DATE |
OPPONENT |
SCORE |
RECORD |
| Aug 30 |
vs. UAlbany Great Danes |
- |
- |
| Sep 6 |
at Iowa State Cyclones |
- |
- |
| Sep 13 |
vs. UMass Minutemen |
- |
- |
| Sep 19 |
at Rutgers Scarlet Knights |
- |
- |
| Sep 27 |
vs. Indiana Hoosiers |
- |
- |
| Oct 4 |
OFF |
| Oct 11 |
at Wisconsin Badgers |
- |
- |
| Oct 18 |
vs. Penn State Nittany Lions |
- |
- |
| Oct 25 |
vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers |
- |
- |
| Nov 1 |
OFF |
| Nov 8 |
vs. Oregon Ducks |
- |
- |
| Nov 15 |
at USC Trojans |
- |
- |
| Nov 22 |
vs. Michigan State Spartans |
- |
- |
| Nov 28 |
at Nebraska Cornhuskers |
- |
- |
The Iowa Hawkeyes have a proud tradition and one of college football's most passionate and devoted fan bases. Iowa has 13 conference championships and five division titles. They won the national championship in 1921, 1922, 1956, 1958, and 1960.
Howard Jones, Forest Evashevski, Hayden Fry, and Kirk Ferentz are legendary coaches who are on the Iowa Mt. Rushmore.
Ferentz took over for Fry in 1999 and led the Hawkeyes to four top-9 or better finishes from 2002 through 2009. In recent years, Iowa has been a consistent top-25 program.
Fans have become increasingly frustrated with the lack of game-breaking talent on the Hawkeyes. Iowa is in the second tier of Big Ten contenders. And fans are growing increasingly impatient.
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