Like the rest of the Big Ten and Pac-12, the Iowa Hawkeyes will not be playing football this fall. That hasn’t stopped them from being ranked in preseason polls that continue to come out despite the uncertainty surrounding a fall football season.
Today, the Associated Press released their preseason poll and as with the Coaches Poll, the Hawkeyes find themselves inside the top-25. Iowa comes in at 24th in the only poll which will have them ranked this year.
Why, exactly, are they ranked? Well, because they were poised to be a solid team contending for a Big Ten West crown and the preseason polls are conducted based on the expectations for all of college football heading into the season, if there were to be one (perhaps the most compelling evidence that preseason polls are entirely meaningless).