Iowa football schedule 2020: Predicting every Iowa Hawkeyes game
By John Buhler
Picking every game on the Iowa football schedule.
The Iowa football schedule is pretty tough but is there enough games on the schedule for the Iowa Hawkeyes to win the Big Ten West this year?
Despite being one of the more consistent programs in the Big Ten for the last few decades, Iowa has a few things working against it this year. Not only is the Big Ten West getting better by the season, but the Hawkeyes have to play two brutal road games vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Penn State Nittany Lions, back-to-back nonetheless. Aren’t we missing something else, too?
Iowa football has been under fire during the Black Lives Matter movement. Players have accused former strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle of running a racist and bullying weight-training program. Head coach Kirk Ferentz issued a PSA two weekends ago and Doyle was placed on administrative leave before being fired on June 15.
Overall, Iowa football has an outside shot of getting to Indianapolis and maybe winning the Big Ten in a pure-chaos scenario. Now, the Hawkeyes will need to fight for every win they can get so that they can achieve bowl eligibility. There are wins to be had for Iowa, but very few of them will come easy. An 8-4, maybe even a 9-3 season would be the absolute best-case scenario for this football team.
So what we’re going to do today is do a game-by-game breakdown of Iowa’s 2020 college football schedule. The Hawkeyes have their nine-game slate vs. Big Ten foes, as well as an early September rivalry game vs. the Big 12’s Iowa State Cyclones at Kinnick for the CyHawk. That game will tell us a lot of how Iowa’s season inevitably shakes out. So let’s get right to it then.