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Fun Facts: Oregon-Iowa, Big Ten rivals who haven’t met in the last 31 years
Finally, the Ducks are returning to Iowa City
Nov. 6, 2025 9:56 am, Updated: Nov. 6, 2025 12:01 pm
- This is Iowa’s first game against Oregon in Iowa City since 1989, a 44-6 Ducks win. That is the worst season-opening loss in Hawkeyes history.
- The Hawkeyes have allowed 13.1 points per game, fourth in the nation. The Ducks’ 13.5 is sixth-best. Iowa is second nationally in total defense, allowing 234.9 yards per game. Oregon is fourth at 239.4.
- Oregon has won its last 10 road games, the longest active streak in the nation. No one else has won more than their last five.
- Iowa has defeated seven Top 10 teams at home since 2000, but has lost its last 11 games against ranked teams.
- Hawkeyes quarterback Mark Gronowski has a rushing touchdown in his last 11 games.
- Dan Lanning’s coaching record at Oregon is 42-7.
- Iowa is 21-2 in its last 23 November games. Oregon is 18-5, but has won its last eight.
- Oregon leads all teams nationally in rushes of 20-plus yards with 24. Iowa is tied for first in fewest 20-yard rushes allowed with 1.
- Ducks reside in the Peabody Memphis hotel lobby fountain from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. When off-duty, the ducks live in their Royal Duck Palace on the hotel’s rooftop. Duck has not been part of the hotel’s restaurant menus since the hotel was renovated in 1981.
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10. Oregon has allowed just 32 first-half points. Iowa has allowed just 33 second-half points.
11. The Ducks lead the nation in punt return defense at minus-0.5 yards per return. The Hawkeyes lead the nation with their average of 25.7 yards per punt return.
12. The Oregon Sports Network has affiliates in Coos Bay, Grants Pass, Hood River and Klamath Falls.
13. Oregon will lead the Big Ten in miles traveled during the regular-season, with 16,744. Only Hawaii and Stanford will cover more airspace this season. Iowa is 16th in the Big Ten in miles to travel, with 5,932.
14. In 1910, Oregon defeated Puget Sound, 114-0. Four years later, Iowa beat Iowa Teachers, 95-0.
15. The five Power 4 conference teams the Ducks have played have a combined 4-23 record in conference play.
16. In the space of two weeks in September, the Ducks played before 12.023 fans at Northwestern and 111,015 at Penn State.
17. Eugene, Ore., was named for Eugene Skinner, a lawyer, postmaster, ferry-operator and city-planner. “We have no aristocracy and no high style of living,” he wrote in 1860. “Still we enjoy life as well as those who roll in luxuries.”
18. Rawlins, Wyo. is almost exactly halfway between Eugene and Iowa City.
19. The Grateful Dead played at Oregon’s Autzen Stadium. The last time the Dead and Iowa’s football team played there was in 1994, three months apart.
20. The Marx Brothers had a 1933 film called “Duck Soup,” which had nothing to do with ducks or soup. It’s a satire/farce on politics and war. Groucho Marx played Rufus T. Firefly, the president of Freedonia.
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