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By the Numbers: Offense - 2023/2024 to 2025 (Updated after the Reliaquest Bowl)

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The 2025 regular season has come to an end. While we still have a bowl to play, I wanted to give everyone the updated numbers for the offense in the meantime. Once again, Tim Lester has improved the offense, going from #72 in the nation to #54. This puts us higher than programs like Clemson, Iowa State, Michigan, Auburn, and Oklahoma. There are 136 programs in the nation, which puts us in the top 45% of offenses. While there is still a lot of work to be done, especially for the pass game, we are no longer in the basement of college football offenses. A far cry from when baby Brian was around. Thanks Tim!

Below I have included the numbers for the 2025 season along side the 23 and 24 seasons. Always remember, ignore ol' Eyes, and support the Hawkeyes!

YearRkSchoolGPts
202554Iowa1329.3
202472Iowa1327.7
2023132Iowa1415.4


PASSING
YearCmpAttPctYdsTD
202513.82262.9143.20.9
202412.52062.7131.60.8
202312.124.948.9118.60.6


RUSHING
YearAttYdsAvgTD
202538.8176.94.62.2
202438.5197.25.12.3
202334.7115.93.30.8

TOTAL OFF.
YearPlaysYdsAvg/Play
202560.8320.15.3
202458.5328.85.6
202359.6234.63.9

FIRST DOWNS
YearPassRushPenTot
20257.19.21.217.5
20246.391.416.7
20235.45.91.612.9

PENALTIES
YearNo.Yds
2025330.1
20243.229.8
20233.630.9

TURNOVERS
YearFumIntTot
20250.40.61
20240.30.60.9
20230.80.81.6

RED ZONE SCORING %RankOverallHomeAway
2025892.68%85.71%100.00%
20241490.91%90.48%91.67%
20239080%83.33%72.73%


Forgot an important stat to consider, Strength of Schedule:

2023 - 69th
2024 - 47th
2025 - 26th

Source: https://fbschedules.com/college-football-strength-of-schedule-phil-steeles-2023-rankings/
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Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2023-team-offense.html#offense
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penalties almost even which tells me they were and are disciplined. I like the third down conversion rate stats, when I get to see the tale of the tape at the end of a game. this shows a lot better first downs. rushing yds of course are better with KJ. I dunno , we shall see this yr. I am not sold on gronk as a QB yet, he needs to play.
 
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My expectation is that when the offense comes on the field I will feel like it's an opportunity to move the chains and score, instead of the dread feeling I had 2 years ago waiting for something bad to happen.

Tim Lester year 2
Experienced OL
Really good, experienced QB
Talented RB's and receivers

There really aren't any excuses this year.
 
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eyesofhawk

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2D said:
Week 1 is here! Before the season gets started, I think it's fair to show everyone where our offense was before Lester, and where it ended after his first year. He said that his main goal was to cut the offensive rankings in half. Iowa went from #132 in the nation in 2023 to #72 in 2024. To me, it looks like he accomplished his goal. Still work to be done and in year 2, I think Lester will have even more success despite the tougher schedule.

Anyone is welcome to use this as a reference going forward for the season. Go Hawks!

YearRkSchoolGPts
202472Iowa1327.7
2023132Iowa1415.4


PASSING
YearCmpAttPctYdsTD
202412.52062.7131.60.8
202312.124.948.9118.60.6


RUSHING
YearAttYdsAvgTD
202438.5197.25.12.3
202334.7115.93.30.8

TOTAL OFF.
YearPlaysYdsAvg
202458.5328.85.6
202359.6234.63.9

FIRST DOWNS
YearPassRushPenTot
20246.391.416.7
20235.45.91.612.9

PENALTIES
YearNo.Yds
20243.229.8
20233.630.9

TURNOVERS
YearFumIntTot
20240.30.60.9
20230.80.81.6


Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2023-team-offense.html#offense
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2024 College Football Team Offense | College Football at Sports-Reference.com

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"Fair" to who?

I think it's fair to say every Iowa fan knows where the offense was in '23.

I think it's fair to say it's laughable to try to draw any inference about the program from '23
 
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2D said:
Week 1 is here! Before the season gets started, I think it's fair to show everyone where our offense was before Lester, and where it ended after his first year. He said that his main goal was to cut the offensive rankings in half. Iowa went from #132 in the nation in 2023 to #72 in 2024. To me, it looks like he accomplished his goal. Still work to be done and in year 2, I think Lester will have even more success despite the tougher schedule.

Anyone is welcome to use this as a reference going forward for the season. Go Hawks!

YearRkSchoolGPts
202472Iowa1327.7
2023132Iowa1415.4


PASSING
YearCmpAttPctYdsTD
202412.52062.7131.60.8
202312.124.948.9118.60.6


RUSHING
YearAttYdsAvgTD
202438.5197.25.12.3
202334.7115.93.30.8

TOTAL OFF.
YearPlaysYdsAvg
202458.5328.85.6
202359.6234.63.9

FIRST DOWNS
YearPassRushPenTot
20246.391.416.7
20235.45.91.612.9

PENALTIES
YearNo.Yds
20243.229.8
20233.630.9

TURNOVERS
YearFumIntTot
20240.30.60.9
20230.80.81.6


Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2023-team-offense.html#offense
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2024 College Football Team Offense | College Football at Sports-Reference.com

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Rushing was so much better last year, but passing was still terrible. Rushing will likely drop this year, so the Hawks will need passing to take a big leap forward.
 
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Hawk_4shur said:
My expectation is that when the offense comes on the field I will feel like it's an opportunity to move the chains and score, instead of the dread feeling I had 2 years ago waiting for something bad to happen.

Tim Lester year 2
Experienced OL
Really good, experienced QB
Talented RB's and receivers

There really aren't any excuses this year.
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None.

But.. I suppose we'll come up with something around the lines of "He didn't have ample time to learn Lester's offense"
 
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uihawk82

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2D said:
Week 1 is here! Before the season gets started, I think it's fair to show everyone where our offense was before Lester, and where it ended after his first year. He said that his main goal was to cut the offensive rankings in half. Iowa went from #132 in the nation in 2023 to #72 in 2024. To me, it looks like he accomplished his goal. Still work to be done and in year 2, I think Lester will have even more success despite the tougher schedule.

Anyone is welcome to use this as a reference going forward for the season. Go Hawks!

YearRkSchoolGPts
202472Iowa1327.7
2023132Iowa1415.4


PASSING
YearCmpAttPctYdsTD
202412.52062.7131.60.8
202312.124.948.9118.60.6


RUSHING
YearAttYdsAvgTD
202438.5197.25.12.3
202334.7115.93.30.8

TOTAL OFF.
YearPlaysYdsAvg
202458.5328.85.6
202359.6234.63.9

FIRST DOWNS
YearPassRushPenTot
20246.391.416.7
20235.45.91.612.9

PENALTIES
YearNo.Yds
20243.229.8
20233.630.9

TURNOVERS
YearFumIntTot
20240.30.60.9
20230.80.81.6


Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2023-team-offense.html#offense
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2024 College Football Team Offense | College Football at Sports-Reference.com

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Good stuff, thx, and 2024 was a huge jump from Brian especially in points per game, about 80%-85% more. That is the Big Measure
 
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Burghawk87 said:
What year would be a better bellwether to compare results?
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He'll just brush everything off like he always does when he can't argue. Any mention of offense gets him upset. I simply posted this thread as a reference on where we are at statistically before and after Tim Lester, yet he assumes some kind of malice.
 
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Burghawk87 said:
What year would be a better bellwether to compare results?
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Any season or group of seasons (there are 26 of them) that not only wasn't clearly an outlier for the program, but also wasn’t an outlier for reasons much out of the control of the staff
 
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eyesofhawk

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2D said:
He'll just brush everything off like he always does when he can't argue. Any mention of offense gets him upset. I simply posted this thread as a reference on where we are at statistically before and after Tim Lester, yet he assumes some kind of malice.
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Offense gets me upset? Where do you come up with some of this stuff?

Why post the '23 numbers if you aren’t trying to say anything with them?
 
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Remember, all this huffing and puffing is because I posted last year's stats and also posted 23's stats to give them a direct comparison to see if Lester improved the offense or not. Just amazing. Can't get any more anti Hawkeye than being upset at an improvement on one of the aspects of the game.
 
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eyesofhawk said:
"Fair" to who?

I think it's fair to say every Iowa fan knows where the offense was in '23.

I think it's fair to say it's laughable to try to draw any inference about the program from '23
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Where did we rank offensively in 21 and 22
 
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2D said:
Remember, all this huffing and puffing is because I posted last year's stats and also posted 23's stats to give them a direct comparison to see if Lester improved the offense or not. Just amazing. Can't get any more anti Hawkeye than being upset at an improvement on one of the aspects of the game.
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Yeah, eyes is as anti Hawkeye as they come. Not a true fan at all. He gives all of us TRUE Hawkeye fans a bad name with his nonsensical.
 
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eyesofhawk said:
Any season or group of seasons (there are 25 of them) that not only wasn't clearly an outlier for the program, but also wasn’t an outlier for reasons much out of the control of the staff
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So cherry pick seasons where everything went right? There will be "something" disqualifying for every argument made based on your past posting history. Groups of seasons doesn't really work when comparing against one. The fairest assessment may be season 1 of each OC compared to the last season of the prior and basing respective change on that. I don’t have a good answer in all honesty.
 
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eyesofhawk

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2D said:
Remember, all this huffing and puffing is because I posted last year's stats and also posted 23's stats to give them a direct comparison to see if Lester improved the offense or not. Just amazing. Can't get any more anti Hawkeye than being upset at an improvement on one of the aspects of the game.
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Again, everyone knows the '24 offense improved from the last place '23 offense.

I'm not mad about that.

I was poking fun at your post.

I was poking fun at your overall cluelessness. You hang around these boards every day. Not that Lester hasn't also had his value, but surely somewhere you read where KF told us (before Lester was even hired) the offense would be much better, as the o-line would be in a good place
 
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eyesofhawk

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ClarindaA’s said:
Where did we rank offensively in 21 and 22
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Yes, '22 and '23 were clearly the outlier, as the offense finished last and wasn't functional.

Given the fact that they were successive seasons, that both contained the same foundational problem, and were only 2 of 26 seasons, it's plenty clear to see it as a two year outlier.

'21 was a functioning offense, just like every other season. So it would rank at the bottom of the range of those functioning offenses. That team had games of 34, 27, 30, 51, 27, 33, 28. Not the non-functioning offense characteristic of the outlier teams
 
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BrunoMars420 said:
Yeah, eyes is as anti Hawkeye as they come. Not a true fan at all. He gives all of us TRUE Hawkeye fans a bad name with his nonsensical.
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That's comical coming from a guy that literally posted on a public forum for Hawk fans to not attend the last several home games last basketball season
 
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Burghawk87 said:
So cherry pick seasons where everything went right? There will be "something" disqualifying for every argument made based on your past posting history. Groups of seasons doesn't really work when comparing against one. The fairest assessment may be season 1 of each OC compared to the last season of the prior and basing respective change on that. I don’t have a good answer in all honesty.
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Do you know what an outlier is?

For anyone to give one any significance at all, is as extreme a level of cherry picking as there is
 
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eyesofhawk said:
That's comical coming from a guy that literally posted on a public forum for Hawk fans to not attend the last several home games last basketball season
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It’s called a protest against mediocrity which you love. Keep being average and being the face of not being a real Hawk fan. In every thread it basically goes like this with you:

Real Hawkeye Fans: “Iowas offense sucked the last 3 years, we need a change to compete”

Eyesofhawk:
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eyesofhawk

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BrunoMars420 said:
It’s called a protest against mediocrity which you love. Keep being average and being the face of not being a real Hawk fan. In every thread it basically goes like this with you:

Real Hawkeye Fans: “Iowas offense sucked the last 3 years, we need a change to compete”

Eyesofhawk:
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"Protest." 🤣🤣🤣

I've never supported mediocrity.

Iows's offense sucked again last season? They need to make another change?

And by "compete", you mean do better than KF's winningest stretch at Iowa?
 
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Remember kids: Facts don't care about your feelings.
 
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2D said:
Remember, all this huffing and puffing is because I posted last year's stats and also posted 23's stats to give them a direct comparison to see if Lester improved the offense or not. Just amazing. Can't get any more anti Hawkeye than being upset at an improvement on one of the aspects of the game.
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It’s pretty obvious what the intent of your post was….you stated it CLEARLY. Nice work!
 
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to get this post back on track (if possible) I would just postulate that last year's success may have been partly or even largel due to having an above average running back. I really hope there is more to it than that, but I do not know. we shall soon see.
 
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I thought last years success was largely due to the O-Line.. they were fantastic... and it would be amazing if they are fantastic again this season.

they are the ones that make it possible for playmakers to make plays.
 
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Ripcord said:
to get this post back on track (if possible) I would just postulate that last year's success may have been partly or even largel due to having an above average running back. I really hope there is more to it than that, but I do not know. we shall soon see.
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I’m sure that had a lot to do with it, as did adding more motion. And while still not at an acceptable level, there was a bit of an uptick in the passing game.

Hopefully Gronowski is the real deal and can improve on that even further.
 
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F6n6 said:
I thought last years success was largely due to the O-Line.. they were fantastic... and it would be amazing if they are fantastic again this season.

they are the ones that make it possible for playmakers to make plays.
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The funniest part is that no one is arguing that. But why diminish the contributions of other positions on the field? Last time I checked, OLineman dont run the ball, hand off the ball, or catch the ball. It's almost like every position has a unique and important role to play in this team sport!
 
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eyesofhawk

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2D said:
The funniest part is that no one is arguing that. But why diminish the contributions of other positions on the field? Last time I checked, OLineman dont run the ball, hand off the ball, or catch the ball. It's almost like every position has a unique and important role to play in this team sport!
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Haven't seen any other positions being diminished, myself.

True, every position is important.

Some more than important than others
 
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