Hawkeyes Headed To The Rose Bowl

After a disappointing last-minute loss against the Michigan State Spartans, the Hawkeyes hopes and morale were down. Although they had accomplished an incredible season, it definitely would have been nice to head to the College Football Playoffs being on of the only two teams with an undefeated record with the other being Clemson. However, the Hawkeyes knew that they would still make a pretty good bowl game. While many people throughout the world believed that the Ohio State Buckeyes would jump ahead of the Hawkeyes and take the Rose Bowl, the committee decided that Iowa had been the better team this year, ranking them at Number 5, and sending them to the Rose Bowl to battle head-to-head against Pac-12 Champion Stanford. This will be the Hawks' first appearance in the Rose Bowl since 1991. The Buckeyes, who fell to Number 7, in turn will go to the Fiesta Bowl to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.