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USA Today
17-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Iowa football 2025 schedule preview: Week 2 vs Iowa State
The CyHawk game. The biggest sports game in the state of Iowa every year. And this year's matchup looks primed to deliver another classic game. Welcome back to my Iowa football schedule preview series, were we preview every single opponent on the Hawkeyes 2025 schedule. Last time out, we discussed the Week 1 matchup against Albany. And today, it's on to the Iowa State Cyclones, who the Hawks will face in Week 2. The Cyclones are riding a lot of momentum under head coach Matt Campbell, who's building a good program up in Ames. Let's take a closer look at Iowa State entering the 2025 season. Week 2: Iowa football vs. Iowa State Iowa will travel to Jack Trice stadium to play the Cyclones on September 6, with kick-off scheduled for 11 a.m. Iowa State is coming off an impressive 11-3 record in 2024, including a win over Miami in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. They made the Big Twelve Championship game, losing 45-19 to Arizona State. Those 11 wins are the most in a single season in school history for the Cyclones, a testament to the job Matt Campbell has done there. Campbell took the Iowa State job in November of 2015 after Paul Rhoades was fired. He's 64-51 overall and 45-36 in conference play across his nine seasons in charge. He has three bowl wins and Iowa State has finished in the top 25 twice during his tenure. And he's got the players this season to make another Big Twelve championship run. Who are some of the key returners for Iowa State? Who are some exciting newcomers for the Cyclones? History between the Hawkeyes and Cyclones Unlike their week one opponent, Iowa has plenty of experience with Iowa State over the years. In their last meeting in 2024, the Cyclones shocked Iowa in Iowa City 20-19 on a game-winning field goal. The last time these two teams played in Ames resulted in a 20-13 win for the Hawkeyes. Overall, Iowa leads the series 47-24, but the Cyclones have won two of the past three matchups and will look to defend home turf in the 2025 installment of the greatest rivalry in the state of Iowa. Buckle in folks, this will be the first of many tests for Iowa in 2025. Contact/Follow us @HawkeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions. Follow Zach on X: @zach_hiney
USA Today
23-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
College Football Playoff announces change to future seeding process
College Football Playoff announces change to future seeding process And everyone rejoiced. It's not often that the College Football Playoff makes a decision that is celebrated by the masses, but this one has to be up there. OK, we at Buckeyes Wire were also big fans of the expanded playoff, but you get the idea. As with any new model, you have to be able to reflect and be willing to make changes that make sense, and the seeding process that seemed like a good idea at the time simply didn't work. As a refresher, the first year of the new 12-team College Football Playoff (that Ohio State will own for eternity by the way), rewarded conference champions. The Cliff Notes version is that the top four conference champions received a bye, and then the seeding would go from there based on the CFP rankings. Last year, what that left us with is an Arizona State team that won the Big Twelve despite being ranked No. 12. It also meant that Boise State was awarded a No. 3 seed as the Mountain West champion despite clocking in at No. 9 in the last CFP rankings. That cascaded everything down. That meant No. 1 Oregon had to face a fantastic Ohio State team at No. 6 in its first-round matchup, while Penn State got a pretty easy path to the semifinals by tussling with SMU and then Boise State. Notre Dame wasn't even eligible to be a top-four seed and receive a bye because it couldn't be a conference champion. Turns out it is nearly impossible to be a conference champion without being in ... wait for it ... a conference. Seeing and listening to what occurred last season, the CFP Committee announced a change to the seeding process that's less complex and simple. From now on, the seeding will just be what the teams are ranked in the CFP final rankings. So, that means, last year, Ohio State would have been a No. 6 seed instead of a No. 8 and matched up in Columbus against Arizona State. If it won (and reminder, it would have), the Buckeyes would then have faced No. 3 seed (instead of No. 5) Texas in the quarterfinal. Who knows if Jack Sawyer would have written his name in Buckeye lore, but still ... Here's what the seeds would have been under the new model if in place last season. The Power Four conferences and top top-ranked non-Power Four still get an automatic qualification. It's hard to come up with a downside to this change, and we're here to give credit to the CFP Committee for making this change so quickly. No matter how you slice it, there will still be some outstanding matchups going forward with this model. Contact/Follow us @BuckeyesWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion. Follow Phil Harrison on X.
