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Fun Facts: Iowa-Wisconsin. Hawkeyes seek 21st-straight win ... on FS1.
This could be Iowa’s 100th-consecutive game without going to overtime
Oct. 8, 2025 10:47 pm
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This is the 99th time Iowa and Wisconsin are playing each other in football. Which means they started doing this before you were born. And you thought you were so important.
Anyway, here are some more Heartland Bull Fun Facts!
- Iowa has won the last three games in this series.
- The Badgers have just one touchdown over their last two games against Iowa and have averaged only 12 points in their last five games against the Hawkeyes.
- Wisconsin offensive line coach A.J. Blazek played on Kirk Ferentz’s first two Iowa teams, in 1999 and 2000.
- Neither team has a player among the Big Ten’s top 20 in rushing yardage. The Badgers had the league’s leader in rushing yards per game in 2023 in Braelon Allen, and Iowa’s Kaleb Johnson held that distinction last year.
- Iowa is fourth and Wisconsin sixth in the nation in rushing defense.
- Iowa is 114th and Wisconsin 124th in total offense.
- The Hawkeyes’ 42-10 win over the Badgers last year was the biggest margin of victory in the series since 1999.
- Wisconsin’s 22-year streak of going to bowl games ended last season. It hasn’t gone two years without a bowl since its drought from 1985 to 1992.
- Badgers Coach Luke Fickell buyout is listed at $27,493,333.
- This is the Hawkeyes’ last road game until they go to USC on Nov. 15.
- Iowa has players from River Falls, Sussex, Suamico, Sun Prairie and Waunakee, Wis. No Badgers are from Iowa.
- The game is on FS1. Iowa is 21-1 when playing on that network, and has won the last 20 of those games.
- Wisconsin has transfers from 21 different FBS teams.
- Iowa has gone 99 games without playing in one that went to overtime. Thirty-nine of those were decided by one score.
- The Hawkeyes have not allowed a point in a third-quarter.
- Iowa leads the nation in fewest penalties per game with 2.2. Wisconsin is tied for fourth-fewest at 3.6.
- The Heartland Trophy weighs 72 pounds, the same heft as eight 12-packs of 12-ounce cans of Old MIlwaukee beer.
- Monday of this week (Oct. 6) was National Badger Day in the United Kingdom. The annual observance is to promote the conservation of badger populations. It is illegal in the UK to kill, injure or trap badgers.
- Badger, Iowa is nine miles from Fort Dodge. The Lions Pancake Breakfast is Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon at the Badger Fire Station.
- According to Yelp, among the best cheese shops in Madison are Fromagination, Mousehouse Cheesehaus, and Ehlenbach’s Cheese Chalet.
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