The 2025 season's largest margin: Iowa 47, Massachusetts 7. A 40-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2025 — The Winning Chapter
Iowa's 2025 season (9-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Mark GronowskiQB1,741 passing yards
- Kamari MoultonRB878 rushing yards
- Jaziun PattersonRB296 rushing yards
- Xavier WilliamsRB285 rushing yards
- DJ VonnahmeTE434 receiving yards
- Jacob GillWR278 receiving yards
- Sam PhillipsWR261 receiving yards
- Karson ShararLB83 tackles
- Xavier NwankpaDB76 tackles
- Koen EntringerDB73 tackles
- Ethan HurkettDL7.5 sacks
- Max LlewellynDL6 sacks
- Aaron GravesDL5 sacks
Season leaders, 2025.
The season's deepest loss: Iowa 15, Indiana 20. A 5-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Iowa beat Vanderbilt 34-27 in the postseason.
"Punt was great"
2025 is a middle chapter for Iowa — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.