IOWA CITY — Iowa’s next opponent, South Carolina State, received a 102-51 whipping at No. 12 Missouri on Monday night. That score alone would make anyone associated with Iowa basketball naturally relax in preparation for Wednesday’s game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. But, McCaffery said, the final score said much more about the explosive Tigers than South Carolina [...]
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AMES — West Des Moines Valley Coach Gary Swenson’s phone beeped almost immediately when top football recruit Jake Campos committed to Missouri. The text was from Swenson’s son, but it wasn’t about family business. It was about football. “My youngest son lives in Minneapolis, and he graduated from Iowa and he’s a huge Iowa fan,” [...]
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Back in the old days of college football, which for me was the late 1970s and early 1980s, Arkansas competed in the now-defunct Southwest Conference. The Razorbacks were a league powerhouse and probably second to Texas in terms of national prestige among Southwest rivals. I often wondered why Arkansas competed in the Southwest when it [...]
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Three of the oldest, most passionate college football rivalries may have waved their final farewells last weekend through clenched teeth and doubled-up fists. Kansas-Missouri, the most-played major-conference football series west of the Mississippi River, is set to expire with the Tigers heading to the Southeastern Conference next season. Texas and Texas A&M, which met for [...]
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The funny thing is Nick Saracino hates the Missouri Tigers. “I mean, I don’t really hate Mizzou,” the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders winger corrected. ”I just don’t follow them.” There might truly be some hate there now. When Iowa’s football beat the Tigers in Tuesday night’s Insight Bowl, Saracino lost a bet with housing parent Bob Orr of Walford that [...]
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Won-lost records be hanged! The Las Vegas Hilton posted its point-spreads on all the bowl games today, and 7-5 Iowa is a 1-point pick over 10-2 Missouri at the Insight Bowl. Meanwhile, the game is a pick’ em (toss up) at Wynn Las Vegas. Should either of those two fine resorts care to comp me [...]
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It’s amazing. The University of Missouri and the University of Iowa are just 192 miles apart, and both play what is commonly called major-college football. Yet, their rivalry is the absolute worst of any two major-college football programs that close together. Bar none. For one thing, they haven’t met since 1910. That’s a hundred years [...]
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Some people aren’t complimentary of the Insight Bowl’s decision to match Iowa with Missouri instead of Nebraska. Here’s a sampling from the Insight Bowl’s Facebook page. Tyler James Heflin Just when I thought the insight bowl was getting their act together the pull something like this. What a joke! That’s why nobody cares about this [...]
continue »The Big Ten fancies itself as being above the fray. It’s a league of 11 universities of high academic repute, a conference that would never compromise itself for cash that has said it isn’t interested in expansion. Fine, fine. But sometimes the winds of change start blowing. Esteemed people within the league like Ohio State [...]
continue »We know Iowa is under serious consideration for the Jan. 4 Fiesta Bowl. We also know the Hawkeyes are far from a lock, with Penn State, Boise State and TCU in the Phoenix-area game’s formula, as well. But while many have assumed 6-6 Iowa State would be headed for the Independence Bowl, that assumption isn’t [...]
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