Iowa plays on 4 stops of the "ultimate Big Ten road trip"

Adam Rittenberg has it all planned out...the ultimate Big Ten road trip for the upcoming 2009 football season. Iowa appears on his list of games 4 times: Sept. 26 at Penn State, Oct. 17 at Wisconsin, Oct. 24 at Michigan State (as the second part of a double header), and finally Nov. 14 at Ohio State. These are all great games that I'd love to go to, but Adam, why no trip to Kinnick? Iowa will be debuting its new FieldTurf this season, and has some okay home games on the schedule (Michigan, Northwestern are not great, but okay.

Online Sport Fanatic has listed the top 60 games of next year. Iowa has made the list at 15 (vs. OSU) and at 53 (vs. PSU). It is overall a pretty good list, but I don't really believe the Ohio State is that much better than the Penn State game. I might even rank the Penn State game high since it is going to be a "white out" and in prime time...plus that whole revenge factor.

One more list...Iowa vs. Arizona was named the 15th most intriguing non-conference match up by NBC Sports.