This upcoming 2023 season of Big Ten football, and really college football, will be the last of the way that we have come to know it for the last decade or so. With the abundance of conference realignment, the tectonic plates of college football are moving with seismic changes when the 2024 college football season starts.
Getting impacted by this movement in the college football landscape is the Iowa Hawkeyes and their schedule in 2024 that will now include both of the Big Ten’s shiny new additions, USC and UCLA.
Tunnel vision may tell that college football purists that this isn’t what college football is about and that conferences are losing their luster. The counterargument to that, and a much more fun situation for all, is the reality that college football will get to see new rivalries developed and even more intriguing matchups. There will be teams from Los Angeles playing in Kinnick Stadium in November. On the flip side, Iowa fans could take a trip to Southern California to see the Hawkeyes play in the Coliseum.
Nonetheless, here is how the Hawkeyes have historically fared against the Big Ten opponents on their 2024 slate. Please note that the dates of these games have yet to be released and this is not the schedule, but rather a look at who Iowa plays at home and on the road.