IOWA CITY — The video board/sound upgrades will be up and running for Iowa’s home football schedule this fall. The financing package the board approved for that Kinnick project totals $8 million, but they expect the total cost of everything will be $9 million because of the increase in bids on a portion of the [...]

If there is another Jones brother who plays football for South Oak Cliff High School near Dallas, Texas, Colorado State probably won’t come knocking. During the 2013 recruiting season, South Oak Cliff wide receiver A.J. Jones committed to the Rams only to switch to the University of Iowa on Feb. 1. In May, Jyaz Jones, [...]

Iowa tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz was named a top five tight end during Thursday’s College Football Live show on ESPN. Danny Kannel, former Florida State QB and the show’s analyst Thursday, picked five TEs from a list of 10. Fiedorowicz, a 6-7, 265-pound senior, was picked fifth. “The reason I say he’s a throwback is [...]

Iowa Day this Friday on the Big Ten Network. Set your DVRs. We are squarely in the Horse Latitudes. Release from the BTN: School Days – Iowa Tomorrow, BTN will continue “School Days” with a complete day of Hawkeye-only programming. The schedule will feature six episodes of the Big Ten’s Greatest Games, including Iowa’s dramatic [...]

Question for you to ponder: Is Northern Illinois a must-win for Iowa? This is an idle June thought. This game is 80-something days (81 maybe?) days off. It’s at Kinnick Stadium and, we know now, it kicks off at 2:30 p.m. The Big Ten released two more kickoffs for the Hawkeyes this morning. Iowa will [...]

The APR scores came out Tuesday. What are APR scores? It’s the Academic Progress Rate. It’s a term-by-term measure of eligibility and retention for Division I student-athletes. The aim was to create an early indicator for graduation rates. From the NCAA website: In order to compete in the 2013-14 postseason, teams must achieve a 900 multi-year [...]

Anne Edwards, a Solon resident and good friend of the On Iowa, took some notes during last weekend’s Iowa Ladies Football Academy, a fundraising project put together by Mary Ferentz, wife of head coach Kirk Ferentz. According to the UI football Twitter feed, the ILFA raised $230,000 this year and has a three-year total of [...]

You can’t say this wasn’t entirely unexpected. Iowa finished 4-8 in 2012, and so, no, Vegas odds aren’t going to favor Iowa. So, when the Las Vegas casino released odds for six Iowa games on Friday, the fact that Iowa was listed as the underdog probably wasn’t a surprise. Against Iowa State, Michigan State, Ohio [...]