How Loud Was Iowa Football vs Iowa State 2026? (Live Crowd Atmosphere Experience)

Key Moments: Pregame - 1st Quarter - 2nd Quarter - 3rd Quarter - 4th Quarter - Seat: Section 335, Row 1, Seat 15 Price Per Ticket: $275.38 Attendance: 69,250 (100.0%) Temp/Dew Point 77° / 58° The Iowa Hawkeyes beat the Iowa State Cyclones on September 12th, 2026, 16-13 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. This is our POV of the college football game, from the stands. Kinnick Stadium is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the home stadium of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Opened in 1929 as Iowa Stadium to replace Iowa Field, it currently holds up to 69,250 people, making it the 7th largest stadium in the Big Ten, and one of the 20 largest university owned stadiums in the nation. Primarily used for college football, the stadium is named for Nile Kinnick, the Iowa player who won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and died in service during World War II. Kinnick Stadium is the only college football stadium named after a Heisman Trophy winner. The Iowa–Iowa State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry game between the Iowa State Cyclones and Iowa Hawkeyes. The Cy–Hawk Trophy is awarded to the winner of the game. Conceived and created as a traveling trophy by the Greater Des Moines Athletic Club in 1976, the trophy was first presented to the winner by Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray in 1977. That game was the first meeting between the two since 1934. In the entire history of the rivalry, the game has never been contested anywhere beside Iowa City or Ames and alternates between the two respective campuses. Games in odd-numbered years are played in Ames at Iowa State University, and even-numbered years in Iowa City at the University of Iowa. The two schools played each other 24 times between 1894 and 1934, before the Cy–Hawk Trophy was established in 1977. The series halted after 1934 after Iowa head coach (and athletic director) Ossie Solem would not return calls to reschedule the rivalry; after more than four decades, the series was restarted in 1977. Of the 72 games in the series through 2025, 42 were played in Iowa City and 30 in Ames. Games in the series are often decided by less than seven points, regardless of the pregame ranking of the teams. The game was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the first time since 1976 that the rivalry was not played. The 2019 game featured an appearance by ESPN College GameDay, the first time Iowa State had hosted the program. GameDay returned for the 2021 edition, which was the first time the rivalry feature both teams ranked in the AP Top 10. The 2025 game played in Ames was highlighted by a visit from FOX with their Big Noon Kickoff. Home field advantage has not been a major factor in the series as of recently. Since 2010, the home team has only won four times, and until Iowa State's 2025 victory, the home team had not won since 2018. Iowa now holds a 1-game win streak and extends the series lead to 47-25.