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DuckTownHusker said:
Hilariously, Iowa somehow also claims 5 national titles. Must be from the era before the forward pass when you could still horsecollar people and each team was allowed one murder per game.
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This is hilarious, their first NC in 1921
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
October 1Knox (IL)*W 52–14
October 8Notre Dame*
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
W 10–7
October 15Illinois
dagger
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
W 14–2
October 29at PurdueW 13–6
November 5at MinnesotaW 41–723,000
November 12Indiana
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
W 41–0
November 19at NorthwesternW 14–0
  • *Non-conference game
  • dagger
    Homecoming
 

BigRedAvenger said:
This is hilarious, their first NC in 1921
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
October 1Knox (IL)*W 52–14
October 8Notre Dame*
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
W 10–7
October 15Illinois
dagger
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
W 14–2
October 29at PurdueW 13–6
November 5at MinnesotaW 41–723,000
November 12Indiana
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
W 41–0
November 19at NorthwesternW 14–0
  • *Non-conference game
  • dagger
    Homecoming
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In their defense, that Knox team was loaded. Impressive win, probably the most impressive of Ferentz's entire career.
 
All of Iowa's titles are from the Dark Ages of College Football and none of them were ever conferred by a major source like the AP Poll, Coaches Poll, etc., and they all pre-date any of the Bowl Alliance / BCS / CFP era. The 1921-1922 championships are ancient, and as my earlier "forward pass" joke goes, not completely that much off base. The forward pass was legalized in 1906. Two-Platoon football wasn't even the norm until the 1940s.

Moving onto the 1956 and 1958 titles. Iowa did at least win the Big Ten in those years, but they finished with dual rankings from the AP/Coaches of 3/3 (1956) and 2/2 (1958). More convincingly, Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma took home the AP & Coaches titles in 1956, and LSU did the same in 1958 with an undefeated season under Paul Dietzel. At best, Iowa could claim these titles like Michigan claims 1997.

Finally, their 1960 championship is totally dubious. Iowa shared the Big Ten title with Minnesota that year, and the Gophers actually went to the Rose Bowl. Remember that for decades, the Big Ten allowed ONLY their champion to attend the Rose Bowl - while all other teams did not receive bowl bids of any kind. Which of course means that somehow Iowa claims a title while they didn't even go to a bowl game.

(Side note, this is why I say Nebraska should claim all our other undefeated seasons as titles. Freaking Iowa gets away with this crap. So should we. Minnesota claims like 947 titles from back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It would boost us up to like 9 titles.)


SeasonCoachSelectorsRecord
1921Howard JonesBillingsley, Parke Davis7–0
1922Howard JonesBillingsley7–0
1956Forest EvashevskiFootball Research9–1
1958Forest EvashevskiFootball Writers8–1–1
1960Forest EvashevskiBerryman, Boand, Litkenhous, Sagarin, Sagarin (ELO-Chess)8–1

On the conference level, Iowa has won only 4 conference titles in my lifetime and only one of those (1985) was uncontested. I guess you can put 'em up there with the 1985 Bears. Irrelevant ever since.

  • In 1985, they took home the Big Ten title and got shellacked by UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
  • In 1990, they shared the B1G title with UM, MSU and Illinois, so I guess 40% of the league was a champ that year. Cool.
  • In 2002, they played a solid season with losses only to ISU and USC in the Orange Bowl. Blind squirrels still get some nuts, I guess.
  • In 2004, they again shared the title with Michigan, but won a solid game over JaMarcus Russell's LSU. Side note, Russell is the only QB I've ever seen who's fatter than his OL.


SeasonCoachConferenceConference RecordOverall Record
1896Alfred E. BullWestern Interstate University Football Association3–0–17–1–1
1900†Alden KnipeBig Ten Conference2–0–17–0–1
1907†Mark Catlin, Sr.Big Ten Conference1–03–2
1921Howard JonesBig Ten Conference5–07–0
1922†Howard JonesBig Ten Conference5–07–0
1956Forest EvashevskiBig Ten Conference5–19–1
1958Forest EvashevskiBig Ten Conference5–18–1–1
1960†Forest EvashevskiBig Ten Conference5–18–1
1981†Hayden FryBig Ten Conference6–28–4
1985Hayden FryBig Ten Conference7–110–2
1990†Hayden FryBig Ten Conference6–28–4
2002†Kirk FerentzBig Ten Conference8–011–2
2004†Kirk FerentzBig Ten Conference7–110–2
† Co-championship
 



These alternate unis look great but I would probably drop the skull and crossbones from the shoulder. It's too specific to the defense. Otherwise, i'm glad the ones we wore last year and these ones are permanent alternate unis.
 
DuckTownHusker said:
All of Iowa's titles are from the Dark Ages of College Football and none of them were ever conferred by a major source like the AP Poll, Coaches Poll, etc., and they all pre-date any of the Bowl Alliance / BCS / CFP era. The 1921-1922 championships are ancient, and as my earlier "forward pass" joke goes, not completely that much off base. The forward pass was legalized in 1906. Two-Platoon football wasn't even the norm until the 1940s.

Moving onto the 1956 and 1958 titles. Iowa did at least win the Big Ten in those years, but they finished with dual rankings from the AP/Coaches of 3/3 (1956) and 2/2 (1958). More convincingly, Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma took home the AP & Coaches titles in 1956, and LSU did the same in 1958 with an undefeated season under Paul Dietzel. At best, Iowa could claim these titles like Michigan claims 1997.

Finally, their 1960 championship is totally dubious. Iowa shared the Big Ten title with Minnesota that year, and the Gophers actually went to the Rose Bowl. Remember that for decades, the Big Ten allowed ONLY their champion to attend the Rose Bowl - while all other teams did not receive bowl bids of any kind. Which of course means that somehow Iowa claims a title while they didn't even go to a bowl game.

(Side note, this is why I say Nebraska should claim all our other undefeated seasons as titles. Freaking Iowa gets away with this crap. So should we. Minnesota claims like 947 titles from back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It would boost us up to like 9 titles.)


SeasonCoachSelectorsRecord
1921Howard JonesBillingsley, Parke Davis7–0
1922Howard JonesBillingsley7–0
1956Forest EvashevskiFootball Research9–1
1958Forest EvashevskiFootball Writers8–1–1
1960Forest EvashevskiBerryman, Boand, Litkenhous, Sagarin, Sagarin (ELO-Chess)8–1

On the conference level, Iowa has won only 4 conference titles in my lifetime and only one of those (1985) was uncontested. I guess you can put 'em up there with the 1985 Bears. Irrelevant ever since.

  • In 1985, they took home the Big Ten title and got shellacked by UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
  • In 1990, they shared the B1G title with UM, MSU and Illinois, so I guess 40% of the league was a champ that year. Cool.
  • In 2002, they played a solid season with losses only to ISU and USC in the Orange Bowl. Blind squirrels still get some nuts, I guess.
  • In 2004, they again shared the title with Michigan, but won a solid game over JaMarcus Russell's LSU. Side note, Russell is the only QB I've ever seen who's fatter than his OL.


SeasonCoachConferenceConference RecordOverall Record
1896Alfred E. BullWestern Interstate University Football Association3–0–17–1–1
1900†Alden KnipeBig Ten Conference2–0–17–0–1
1907†Mark Catlin, Sr.Big Ten Conference1–03–2
1921Howard JonesBig Ten Conference5–07–0
1922†Howard JonesBig Ten Conference5–07–0
1956Forest EvashevskiBig Ten Conference5–19–1
1958Forest EvashevskiBig Ten Conference5–18–1–1
1960†Forest EvashevskiBig Ten Conference5–18–1
1981†Hayden FryBig Ten Conference6–28–4
1985Hayden FryBig Ten Conference7–110–2
1990†Hayden FryBig Ten Conference6–28–4
2002†Kirk FerentzBig Ten Conference8–011–2
2004†Kirk FerentzBig Ten Conference7–110–2
† Co-championship
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Lol, Iowa's "National Titles".
 
Lurker44 said:
Lol, Iowa's "National Titles".
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Talking about Iowa's national titles is a bit like talking about an alleged World War 1 veteran's service in 2020. It's such ancient history that nobody's going to really question it too much. And if someone does call out a guy for only being a Boy Scout and not an actual Army soldier, they can just say, "Well, it was a different era. The Scouts helped a lot on the home front," etc. etc.

It has an extreme level of plausibility and is from an era where things were just so markedly different that nobody really cares.
 




I feel like I just wasted a whole lot of time reading about Iowa. Can't imagine what you feel like having researched and typed all that out. You're a better man than I.
 
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