After stewing in the stench that was the 9-6 loss at Illinois for an extra week on bye, the Iowa Hawkeyes are set to do something they haven’t done in nine years - travel to Columbus, Ohio to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. Iowa and Ohio State have squared off just once since that 2013 trip to the Horseshoe (a 34-24 OSU win) in a game that many people forget as the then 5-3 and unranked Hawkeyes throttled the then #6 Buckeyes 55-24 inside the friendly confines of Kinnick Stadium.
As improbable as that win felt at the time, a Hawkeye victory feels miles apart from that 2017 win.