Kirk Ferentz is the winningest coach in Iowa football history, and while some of those have come easy, he’s had his fair share of dramatic wins.
Kirk Ferentz’s time with the Iowa football program has been a special one. It’s so special that he is likely to have a status outside Kinnick Stadium. In his 20 years at the helm of the Iowa football program, he’s seen it all. There have been easy wins, there have been disappointing losses, and there have been some pretty special victories during his time with the Hawks monitoring the sidelines.
Kirk Ferentz’s time at Iowa has truly been a special one.
He has kept the Iowa Football program at stable success, averaging 7-8 wins per season with a couple 10 wins seasons in the mix.
One of those ten win seasons concluded with an Orange Bowl victory. Let’s not forget the 2016 season when the Iowa football team went 12-0 and made it to the Big Ten championship where they lost a heart breaker to the Michigan State Spartans. Despite the loss, the Iowa football team did get a chance to play in the grandaddy of them all, the Rose Bowl. Neither of those games ended the way the Hawks wanted them to, but to go 12-0 and go to the Rose Bowl is something Iowa football fans will appreciate.
During this story, we are going to take a quick walk through history and look at games that have made the last decade of Iowa football pretty exciting. From the double block vs. an in-state rival, UNI Panthers, to the 4th quarter come back vs. the Pitt Panthers, to the field goal that shocked the college football world.
Kirk Ferentz has been the key cog of helping the Iowa football program pull off these dramatic wins.