How America picks the Oregon-Iowa football game. Spoiler: No consensus

If Iowa fans value the opinion of Kirk Herbstreit, they’ll enjoy his prediction about the Ducks-Hawkeyes game

Nov. 7, 2025 12:34 pm, Updated: Nov. 7, 2025 2:03 pm

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I haven’t done one of these in a while because Iowa hasn’t been in a football game that attracted genuine national attention in a while.

Oregon-Iowa changes that. Click on the links to get these prognosticators’ detailed explanations.

SI.com: Two of the three people here pick Iowa to win.

College Football News: Seven of the 11 panelists take Oregon. One of the four in Iowa’s camp is Clucko the Chicken.

Dimers.com: Oregon 24, Iowa 20. They ran 10,000 simulations. I would have stopped at around 7,000.

Kirk Herbstreit: Iowa 16, Oregon 15

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