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BOA Team Profile

Iowa

Big Ten · Current BOA team profile

BOA Rank
#10
Power Rating
1748.2
Ranking score 1766.6
Offense
57.9
#53 nationally · 62nd percentile
Defense
97.0
#3 nationally · 99th percentile
Schedule Strength
77.4
#32 nationally · 78th percentile
Recent Form
59.1
National Component Profile

How Iowa compares with the FBS

138-team active BOA publication
Offensive Strength
57.9
#53 nationally62nd percentile
Defensive Strength
97.0
#3 nationally99th percentile
Schedule Strength
77.4
#32 nationally78th percentile

Component ratings use a 0–100 national-strength scale. Higher offense and defense mean stronger units; higher schedule strength means a more difficult schedule.

Advanced Team Intelligence

CFBD advanced game performance

Measured game performance is displayed separately from BOA model ratings.

2 completed games with advanced data
Season PPA / Play
+0.166
Play-weighted
Season Success Rate
42.3%
Play-weighted
Season Explosiveness
1.116
Play-weighted
Points / Opportunity
2.87
Opportunity-weighted
Latest advanced game

Week 2 · vs Iowa State

16–13 · Data quality: advanced box
Source: CFBD advanced box
Efficiency · EPA / Play
—
Value created per play
Consistency · Success Rate
38.3%
How often the offense stayed on schedule
Big-Play Threat · Explosiveness
0.900
Damage created on successful plays
Disruption · Havoc Rate
14.5%
Negative events created by the defense
Field Position
Own 31
BOA Expected Win Share
—
How often this performance profile would be expected to win
Advanced details
PPA / Play
+0.026
Pass PPA / Play
+0.188
Rush PPA / Play
-0.038
Cumulative PPA
+1.60
Standard-Down Success
46.7%
Passing-Down Success
13.3%
Stuff Rate
17.2%
Power Success
57.1%
Line Yards / Rush
2.80
2nd-Level Yards / Rush
0.40
Open-Field Yards / Rush
0.00
Points / Opportunity
2.67
Pass EPA / Play
—
Rush EPA / Play
—

Advanced game log

WeekOpponentPPA/PlaySuccessExplosiveHavocPts/Opp
W2vs Iowa State+0.02638.3%0.90014.5%2.67
W1vs Northern Illinois+0.33247.1%1.37054.5%3.00
CFBD Passing Intelligence

Passing production + efficiency

PPA, success, explosiveness, aDOT, air yards, YAC and location availability.

full
Offense PPA
-0.017
40 attempts
Success Rate
42.5%
17 successful
aDOT
7.9
100% air-yard coverage
Explosiveness
1.087
98% location coverage
PPA Allowed
0.167
Opponent passing production
Success Allowed
29.2%
Opponent success rate
aDOT Allowed
9.9
100% coverage
Expl. Allowed
1.802
Opponent explosiveness
Passing PPA by game
W1W2-0.200.20.40.6
Field View

Iowa passing map

Deep ↑
Behind LOS ↓
Deep
Left
2att
Comp 0%
YPA 0.0
PPA -1.218
Success 0%
aDOT 28.5
YAC —
Middle
0att
Comp —
YPA —
PPA 0.000
Success 0%
aDOT —
YAC —
Right
2att
Comp 0%
YPA 0.0
PPA -0.872
Success 0%
aDOT 32.0
YAC —
Short
Short
Left
12att
Comp 67%
YPA 7.2
PPA 0.333
Success 50%
aDOT 4.8
YAC 44
Middle
11att
Comp 46%
YPA 6.3
PPA 0.173
Success 46%
aDOT 8.0
YAC 25
Right
12att
Comp 67%
YPA 5.3
PPA 0.148
Success 50%
aDOT 3.9
YAC 60
Line of Scrimmage
Behind LOS
Left
Play-level
charting only
Middle
Play-level
charting only
Right
Play-level
charting only
Backfield / screen area
Unclassified: 1 attempts · 0% comp · -4.149 PPA/play

Behind LOS includes only passes with negative charted air yards. Missing play-level charting is shown as unavailable, never as zero.

Movement Intelligence

Rank + Rating History

Published BOA position and rating by week.

National board →
Week 0
#20
1706.1
Week 0
#20
1706.1
-0.0 rating
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Week 1
#20
1706.1
+0.0 rating
No rank change

Rating History

Each bar shows that week's rating relative to this team's highest published rating.

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2026 Model Schedule

Week 1
vs Northern Illinois#132 BOA
Final 40–0
Week 2
vs Iowa State#45 BOA
Final 16–13
Week 4
at Michigan#24 BOA
Final 19–20
Week 5
vs Ohio State#3 BOA
Week 6
at Washington#44 BOA
No active forecast
Week 8
at Minnesota#23 BOA
No active forecast
Week 9
vs Wisconsin#33 BOA
No active forecast
BOA rating context

BOA team profiles use the current published ratings and forecasts. They update automatically as new game results are processed.

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