The Big Ten’s 2015 football schedule will feature the same match-ups as the 2014 version, but the sites will flip, Big Ten senior associate commissioner Mark Rudner confirmed this week. That means Iowa’s four home league games in 2015 are Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota and Maryland. Iowa will play Wisconsin, Nebraska, Indiana and Northwestern on the [...]

Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz is making the rounds on the annual I-Club circuit, and his message is a little different this year. Ferentz never gives a whiff of complacency when speaking publicly, whether it’s coming off an 11-2 Orange Bowl season or an rock-bottom 4-8 campaign. But his message this year is a combination [...]

CHICAGO — The Big Ten’s next realignment shifts 180 degrees from its last divisional layout, and the league’s athletics directors are happy with the change of direction. This fall marks the third and final year of the Legends/Leaders experiment, where the Big Ten split into football divisions based on historical competitive balance. The geography was awkward, [...]

PEOSTA — Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz remains committed to an open competition at quarterback, nearly one month after spring practice concluded. Ferentz, who talked to The Gazette before speaking Tuesday at an I-Club banquet at Thunder Hills Country Club, said red-shirt sophomore Jake Rudock has a slight advantage over junior Cody Sokol and red-shirt freshman [...]

Incoming Iowa freshman Peter Jok was one of 40 players named to the Parade All-American team, which was released on Saturday. Jok, a 6-foot-6 combo guard, led Class 4A in scoring average with a 23.6 points a game at West Des Moines Valley. Jok hit 42 percent from 3-point range and sank 92.6 percent from [...]

IOWA CITY — Iowa sent Iowa State a check for $609,775 earlier this year, the final payment under an old provision in the annual Cy-Hawk series. In 2008, the non-conference rivals agreed on a 10-year deal where through 2012, the host school paid the visitor 20 percent of gate receipts after taxes. Beginning in 2013 through [...]

The Big Ten’s seemingly perpetual wheel of expansion has decimated the league’s football scheduling process. The 2011 and 2012 schedules vanished with the addition of Nebraska. Three seasons worth of schedules, two of which were released with great interest last spring, also went up in smoke when the league chose to add Rutgers and Maryland [...]

Big Ten expansion has brought rivalry football back to its final weekend. Each school received a season-ending rivalry assignment for the 2014 league schedule, which was released today by the league office. The schedule was revamped to accommodate newcomers Rutgers and Maryland, who join the Big Ten in 2014. The league also shifted into East [...]