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Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks

Iowa Pre-Flight has played football since at least 1942 and is 26–⁠5 in the 31 games on record. Their best finish in the final AP poll is No. 2, in 1943. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 2 coaches from Iowa Pre-Flight. Jack Meagher (1944) won more games here than any other coach: 10. This season, under Jack Meagher, they’re 10–⁠1.

Résumé

Record on file
26–⁠5 .839; how we count
Postseason
0–⁠0 bowls, title games, playoff
AP No. 1 finishes
0
Weeks at No. 1
0 of 16 ranked
Elo now
1749
Best season by Elo
1944 rated 1749
Seasons
3 since 1942, 31 games

1944 season 10–⁠1

RosterFull 1944 season
DateOpponentResultElo
Sep 16atMichiganL 7–⁠1244%
Sep 23atMinnesotaW 19–⁠1358%
Sep 30vsOlathe NavyW 45–⁠1295%
Oct 7vsSecond Air Force (Colorado)W 12–⁠685%
Oct 14at7PurdueW 13–⁠648%
Oct 22vsFort WarrenW 30–⁠092%
Oct 29atMarquetteW 26–⁠076%
Nov 4atTulsaW 47–⁠2751%
Nov 11vsBunker Hill NavyW 33–⁠797%
Nov 18atMissouriW 51–⁠774%
Nov 25vsIowaW 30–⁠693%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

This season, game by game

Iowa Pre-Flight’s Elo through 1944: 1647 going into the opener, 1749 after the last game; AP rank from No. 7 to No. 6.165017001750Elo 1647 going in; lost to Michigan 12–7; AP No. 7Elo 1632 going in; beat Minnesota 19–13; AP No. 7Elo 1648 going in; beat Olathe Navy 45–12; AP No. 7Elo 1651 going in; beat Second Air Force (Colorado) 12–6; AP No. 7Elo 1656 going in; beat Purdue 13–6; AP No. 11Elo 1677 going in; beat Fort Warren 30–0; AP No. 5Elo 1682 going in; beat Marquette 26–0; AP No. 6Elo 1696 going in; beat Tulsa 47–27; AP No. 7Elo 1726 going in; beat Bunker Hill Navy 33–7; AP No. 7Elo 1728 going in; beat Missouri 51–7; AP No. 7Elo 1746 going in; beat Iowa 30–6; AP No. 7Final: Elo 1749 after the last game; AP No. 61749
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MichiganMinnesotaOlathe NavySecond Air Force (Colorado)PurdueFort WarrenMarquetteTulsaBunker Hill NavyMissouriIowaFinal
Elo going into each game, then after the last. Filled dots: wins; open: losses. Numbers under the line: the AP rank going into each game, and in the newest poll (a dot: unranked).

Program strength since 1942

Best seasons ever
Iowa Pre-Flight end-of-season Elo from 1942 to 1944, best in 1944 at 1749.13001500170019001944 peak: Elo 1749
End-of-season Elo. Dashed line: 1500, an average FBS team.

Head coaches

CoachYearsRecord
Jack Meagher194410–⁠1
Don Faurot19439–⁠1
Bernie Bierman19427–⁠3

Most-played series

All rivalries
Every opponent (22)

Every program Iowa Pre-Flight has played, A to Z, with Iowa Pre-Flight’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.

In the Hall of Fame

Every inductee
Players
0
Coaches
2
1961Don Faurot coach here, 1943
1955Bernie Bierman coach here, 1942

On the newsreel

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Season by season

National champions
SeasonRecordConf.AP preAP finalCoachEloSP+
194410–⁠1116Jack Meagher1749
19439–⁠182Don Faurot1721
19427–⁠3Bernie Bierman1592

All 3 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.

Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.