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. Share
- 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
- 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
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

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, 2023 | 25Iowa 24, Utah State 14vacated | at Iowa | ||
| Sep 21, 2002 | Iowa 48, Utah State 7 | at Iowa | ||
| Sep 28, 1957 | 12Iowa 70, Utah State 14 | at 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.