Iowa vs. Washington

Iowa and Washington have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1937; Iowa leads the series 5–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Iowa 5–⁠3, and Iowa has won the last 3.

Iowa wins
5
Washington wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1937
Longest streak
3 Iowa
Current streak
3 Iowa
Last 10 meetings
Iowa 5–⁠3
Most recent
2026

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s0–⁠1
1960s2–⁠0
1980s0–⁠1
1990s1–⁠1
2020s2–⁠0
Both ranked
2 meetings: Iowa 0, Washington 2
Average margin
16.9 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Iowa
2–⁠0 Iowa’s record at home
At Washington
1–⁠2 Washington’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠2 Iowa first
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 win2024: Iowa 40, Washington 16by 24 points
  2. Washington’s biggest win1981: Washington 28, Iowa 0by 28 points
  3. Ranked showdown1990: Washington 46, Iowa 34No. 17 Iowa at No. 8 Washington
  4. Ranked showdown1981: Washington 28, Iowa 0No. 13 Iowa at No. 12 Washington

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Iowa and Washington, 1937 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Sedrick Shaw Iowa1995
Mark Brunell Washington1990
Jacque Robinson1981

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1937 game: J. WASHINGTON DEFEATS IOWA BY SCORE 14-0 Huskies Make Their Tallies in Second, Fourth Periods

    1937 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 27, 1937

  • The The Nome nugget's story of the 1963 game: Washington Squad Will try Saturday Face-Saver

    1963 · The Nome nugget, Oct 11, 1963

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 9, 202620Iowa 41, Washington 24at Washington
Oct 12, 2024Iowa 40, Washington 16at Iowa
Dec 29, 1995Iowa 38, 20Washington 18Neutral siteSun Bowl
Jan 1, 19918Washington 46, 17Iowa 34Neutral siteRose Bowl
Jan 1, 198212Washington 28, 13Iowa 0Neutral siteRose Bowl
Oct 3, 1964Iowa 28, 10Washington 18at Iowa
Oct 5, 1963Iowa 17, Washington 7at Washington
Sep 25, 1937Washington 14, Iowa 0at Washington

Every game is listed as played on the field.