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It’s a bitter, back-and-forth rivalry that gets blood pumping in the state of Iowa.
By now, you already know that the Cy-Hawk Trophy yields major bragging rights.
Iowa enters this year’s contest looking to make a statement as the No. 16 team in the country. Iowa State, of course, would love nothing more than to squash the Hawkeyes’ 13-game regular season winning streak.
Hawkeye fans will get a kick out of this pre-Cy-Hawk hype trailer:
Night game in @kinnickstadium is going to be electric! See you soon Hawks | #SwarmKinnick https://t.co/oU31JtFGHg
— Hawkeye Football (@HawkeyeFootball) September 10, 2016
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.