{"id":10447,"date":"2018-11-15T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2018-11-13T19:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T01:48:30","slug":"iowa-football-playing-100th-game-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/iowa-football-playing-100th-game-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa football playing 100th game in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10464\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/illinois_stadium_plaque.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/illinois_stadium_plaque.jpg 720w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/illinois_stadium_plaque-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><em><strong>July 15, 2008:<\/strong> Dedication plaque at one of the many Memorial Stadiums of the Midwest. The stadium was undergoing a massive expansion <a href=\"https:\/\/fightingillini.com\/sports\/2015\/3\/24\/memorialstadium.aspx\">at the time of this photo<\/a>. Unfortunately, not even Lovie Smith&#8217;s beard has enough magic to make the Illini a good team in the 2010s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa Hawkeyes look destined to repeat the familiarity, the humility, the\u00a0<em>tragedy<\/em> of yet another eight-win football season. (Eventually, there will be enough people who don&#8217;t remember the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s to declare this isn&#8217;t good enough.) Their last two games will be against the bottom-feeders of the Big Ten West, Illinois and Nebraska.*<\/p>\n<p>When Iowa goes to Champaign this weekend, it will be the 100th time the Hawkeyes have played a football game in the Land of Lincoln.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The great bulk of those are the ones you expect: Illinois (15-20), Northwestern (23-16-3), and Western Conference founding member Chicago (3-9-2).<\/li>\n<li>Two wins at Soldier Field against Northern Illinois, 2007 and 2012, which are the closest Iowa has ever gotten to a home-and-home with a non-power-conference team in the modern era. (There was a 2-for-1 with Miami of Ohio near the start of the Ferentz years.)<\/li>\n<li>Losses in 1917 and 1943 against Great Lakes Naval Training Academy<\/li>\n<li>A 0-0 tie, and 33-0 win, at Knox College in Galesburg in 1898 and 1899<\/li>\n<li>Another 1898 game, a 15-11 loss at Rush College (now Rush University)<\/li>\n<li>And, finally, a 50-0 Thanksgiving Day shutout loss in 1901 in Chicago to Michigan, who five weeks later beat Stanford so badly in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/abcsports\/bcs\/rose\/s\/1902.html\">the first Rose Bowl<\/a> that the game wasn&#8217;t held for years afterward.<\/li>\n<li>Total going into Saturday: 44-49-6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Close behind is Indiana\u00a0(40-54-4). Iowa played its 97th and 98th games in the state this year, but that&#8217;s an aberration. Purdue is in the West but Indiana isn&#8217;t, so there will not be a trip to the state every year. Third place, for now, is Michigan (57, 18-35-4), but it will lose that position in 2024 when Iowa plays at Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>*Remember, Nebraska fans: You asked for this. You begged for this. You <em>demanded<\/em> this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2008: Dedication plaque at one of the many Memorial Stadiums of the Midwest. The stadium was undergoing a massive expansion at the time of this photo. Unfortunately, not even Lovie Smith&#8217;s beard has enough magic to make the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/iowa-football-playing-100th-game-in-illinois\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}