Nice article from HawkCentral.
Both teams were loaded with star power and stormed into national headlines.
Both teams had a Heisman Trophy runner-up quarterback.
Both teams had a defining win against Michigan — the legendary 12-10 No. 1-vs.No. 2 game in 1985, then the resounding 34-9 statement rout in the Big House in 2002.
Both teams were tagged with a regrettable regular-season loss: Chuck Long’s four-interception game at Ohio State ending a 7-0 season start in 1985, and the Hawkeyes letting a 24-7 halftime lead slip away in a home loss to Iowa State in week three of the 2002 season.
Both teams lost high-profile bowl games to a southern California opponent in blowout fashion — the 1986 Rose Bowl to UCLA, 45-28; and the 2003 Orange Bowl to USC, 38-17.
The 1985 team finished No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll, at 10-2; the 2002 team was No. 8, at 11-2.
That 2002 Iowa team had 11 players named first-team all-Big Ten Conference: Banks, Clark, Gallery, Nate Kaeding, Fred Russell, Bob Sanders and Eric Steinbach among them.
The 1985 team averaged 36.7 points and 458.9 yards a game, compared with 2002’s 37.2 and 424.5.
The 1985 team, though, clearly had the stingier defense — allowing 13.9 points and 296.8 yards a game vs. 2002’s 19.7 and 355.3. (And, the '85 Hawkeyes had to face Ohio State; the '02 Hawkeyes did not.)
And the most recent Hawkeyes to be inducted into college football’s Hall of Fame?
Three of them happen to be three catalysts of the legendary 1985 team: The quarterback (Long, inducted in 1999), the coach (Hayden Fry, in 2003) and the middle linebacker (Larry Station, in 2009).
Two instrumental players from that 2002 squad were included on this year’s hall of fame ballot: The towering left tackle and eventual Outland Trophy winner, Robert Gallery; and the play-making tight end who won that year’s John Mackey Award, Dallas Clark.
Just .02 percent of college players make the Hall of Fame. It’s an exclusive club.
The full story:
https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/s...llery-ferentz-hayden-fry-hall-fame/669655002/
Both teams were loaded with star power and stormed into national headlines.
Both teams had a Heisman Trophy runner-up quarterback.
Both teams had a defining win against Michigan — the legendary 12-10 No. 1-vs.No. 2 game in 1985, then the resounding 34-9 statement rout in the Big House in 2002.
Both teams were tagged with a regrettable regular-season loss: Chuck Long’s four-interception game at Ohio State ending a 7-0 season start in 1985, and the Hawkeyes letting a 24-7 halftime lead slip away in a home loss to Iowa State in week three of the 2002 season.
Both teams lost high-profile bowl games to a southern California opponent in blowout fashion — the 1986 Rose Bowl to UCLA, 45-28; and the 2003 Orange Bowl to USC, 38-17.
The 1985 team finished No. 10 in the final Associated Press poll, at 10-2; the 2002 team was No. 8, at 11-2.
That 2002 Iowa team had 11 players named first-team all-Big Ten Conference: Banks, Clark, Gallery, Nate Kaeding, Fred Russell, Bob Sanders and Eric Steinbach among them.
The 1985 team averaged 36.7 points and 458.9 yards a game, compared with 2002’s 37.2 and 424.5.
The 1985 team, though, clearly had the stingier defense — allowing 13.9 points and 296.8 yards a game vs. 2002’s 19.7 and 355.3. (And, the '85 Hawkeyes had to face Ohio State; the '02 Hawkeyes did not.)
And the most recent Hawkeyes to be inducted into college football’s Hall of Fame?
Three of them happen to be three catalysts of the legendary 1985 team: The quarterback (Long, inducted in 1999), the coach (Hayden Fry, in 2003) and the middle linebacker (Larry Station, in 2009).
Two instrumental players from that 2002 squad were included on this year’s hall of fame ballot: The towering left tackle and eventual Outland Trophy winner, Robert Gallery; and the play-making tight end who won that year’s John Mackey Award, Dallas Clark.
Just .02 percent of college players make the Hall of Fame. It’s an exclusive club.
The full story:
https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/s...llery-ferentz-hayden-fry-hall-fame/669655002/
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