Iowa vs. Knox

Iowa and Knox first met in 1899 and have played 5 times; Iowa leads the series 5–⁠0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Iowa 5–⁠0, and Iowa has won the last 5.

Iowa wins
5
Knox wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1899
Longest streak
5 Iowa
Current streak
5 Iowa
Last 10 meetings
Iowa 5–⁠0
Most recent
1923

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s1–⁠0
1900s1–⁠0
1920s3–⁠0
Average margin
38.4 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
4–⁠0 Iowa’s record at home
At Knox
0–⁠1 Knox’s record at home
Shutouts
2

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Iowa’s biggest win1922: Iowa 61, Knox 0by 61 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa and Knox, 1899 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The Pensacola journal's story of the 1922 game: Football Results

    1922 · The Pensacola journal, Pensacola, Fla., Oct 8, 1922

  • The 's story of the 1923 game: IOWA MACHINE | DEFEATS KNOX |Top-Heavy Score Of a To 3 Rolled Up in Iowa City Game.

    1923 · , Oct 7, 1923

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 6, 1923Iowa 44, Knox 3at Iowa
Oct 7, 1922Iowa 61, Knox 0at Iowa
Oct 1, 1921Iowa 52, Knox 14at Iowa
Nov 2, 1901Iowa 23, Knox 6at Iowa
Nov 18, 1899Iowa 35, Knox 0at Knox

Every game is listed as played on the field.