Football? Football!
It’s Week 1 for high school and college football seasons.
North Tama (preview here) is expected to do well this year. This time, the team had a full offseason with one coach; Mr. McDermott unretired in 2018 when the previous coach jumped ship to become an assistant at Iowa’s newest megaschool.
ISU is playing UNI, again, but this time the game was optioned for national coverage and this could be the first opening-weekend 11 AM Saturday kickoff.
And the Hawkeyes are playing Miami, not the Miami that nearly upset Florida last week on a drive consisting mostly of pass interference calls, but the other Miami, in Ohio. That team is the RedHawks, with a capital H, something that has caused occasional consternation for those of us who have to remind people that North Tama doesn’t do that.
This is the fifth time Iowa has played Miami (OH). The MAC school is the only non-power-conference team that Iowa has done a 2-for-1 home series with. The game was played there in 2002 (Iowa won). There was an almost-qualifier five years later, when Northern Illinois’ side of a 2-for-1 was played at Soldier Field (Iowa won).
But since then, and especially now that the Big Ten plays nine conference games, Iowa ONLY pays for have-nots/lessers/poors to visit Kinnick Stadium. This is a stark contrast to certain other teams that do home-and-homes and then lose in double overtime at the Glass Bowl.
Go Redhawks, and go RedHawks.