After two straight weekends of 40-plus point performances, a 5-1 record, a burgeoning passing attack that more resembles a Big 12 Air Raid offense than a Kirk Ferentz run-heavy staple, and a second-consecutive wild weekend of upsets in college football, the Iowa Hawkeyes are back in multiple Top 25 rankings.
Iowa is ranked very generously at 19 in the AP Poll, ahead of Washington State, Michigan State, Wisconsin(!), Mississippi State, South Florida, and Cincinnati. That’s a lot of good teams! It’s the highest the program has been ranked since Week 3 of 2016, when they were ranked 13.