Iowa vs. Utah State

Iowa and Utah State have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1957; officially, Iowa leads 2–⁠0; as played, 3–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Iowa 3–⁠0, and Iowa has won the last 3. The NCAA vacated Iowa’s win (2023); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played.

Official series
Iowa leads 2–⁠0
Iowa wins on file
3
Utah State wins on file
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1957
Longest streak
3 Iowa
Current streak
3 Iowa
Last 10 meetings
Iowa 3–⁠0
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠0
2000s1–⁠0
2020s1–⁠0
Average margin
35.7 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
3–⁠0 Iowa’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa and Utah State, 1957 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1957 game

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 1, 1957

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

Sep 2, 202325Iowa 24, Utah State 14vacatedat Iowa
Sep 21, 2002Iowa 48, Utah State 7at Iowa
Sep 28, 195712Iowa 70, Utah State 14at Iowa

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.