Iowa vs. Penn State

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

1. Iowa’s biggest win2010: Iowa 24, Penn State 3by 21 points
2. Penn State’s biggest win1994: Penn State 61, Iowa 21by 40 points
3. Upset2000: Iowa 26, Penn State 23Iowa had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1976: Iowa 7, Penn State 6Iowa had a 19% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1996: Iowa 21, Penn State 20Iowa had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2021: Iowa 23, Penn State 20No. 4 Penn State at No. 3 Iowa
7. Ranked showdown1984: Penn State 20, Iowa 17No. 12 Penn State at No. 5 Iowa
8. Ranked showdown2019: Penn State 17, Iowa 12No. 10 Penn State at No. 17 Iowa

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Iowa’s side (Lauterbur 0–⁠3 against Paterno). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 16, 1930

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.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2009.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Iowa vs. Minnesota118 meetings, Iowa 54–⁠62–⁠2
• Iowa vs. Wisconsin99 meetings, Iowa 48–⁠49–⁠2
• Iowa vs. Purdue94 meetings, Iowa 41–⁠50–⁠3
• Iowa vs. Northwestern86 meetings, Iowa 55–⁠28–⁠3
• Penn State vs. Pittsburgh99 meetings, Penn State 52–⁠43–⁠4
• Penn State vs. Syracuse71 meetings, Penn State 43–⁠23–⁠5
• Penn State vs. West Virginia61 meetings, Penn State 50–⁠9–⁠2
• Penn State vs. Maryland48 meetings, Penn State 44–⁠3–⁠1