By The Numbers: Iowa vs. Washington

It’s hard to believe that Iowa and Washington have not shared a football field in nearly 30 years, but it is the case. I don’t know about you, but I have vivid memories of watching the first half of the 1991 Rose Bowl and being just dumbfounded that there was a team out there that could stop Nick Bell and make that Iowa team look pedestrian. Sure, they made it a game in the second half, but the result was never really in doubt after Washington put up 23 points in the second quarter.

Hayden got his revenge 4 years later in a lesser bowl game, played in a lesser city, on a signficantly less important date, but if I’m being honest, I have zero memories of that Sun Bowl win, probably because…