There’s an old saying in football that if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. The implication being that any sort of division of time, energy and resources makes neither quarterback worthy of being a starter.
Iowa football has rarely found itself in that situation, with a few obvious examples. But for Hawkeye fans, that’s precisely the situation we find ourselves when it comes to rivals. Most big time universities have one or possibly two rivals. Ohio State has Michigan. Michigan has Ohio State and Michigan State. Michigan State has Michigan. And on and on.
Iowa is different.