IOWA CITY — As Hawkeye football fans, you wanted a better result against Iowa State. Losing three of the last four in the series, by a combined seven points, stings. It’s frustrating, even maddening. The same-old (stuff) keeps holding your team back .

And now, the most mundane game of the season is next, on Sept. 13: Iowa is favored by 35½ points against UMass (6:30 p.m. CT, BTN).

The choices are yours.

Tune out until they pull you back in again.

Tune in and complain that things aren’t perfect after Iowa wins by (insert margin here).

Or embrace that this is the typical journey for Iowa football, one of only five FBS programs to have eight-win seasons in every non-COVID year since 2015. (Alabama, Clemson, Georgia and Ohio State are the others.)

Winning eight-plus games every year re

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