Printable Iowa Football Schedule 2026 PDF: Dates, Times and TV

Iowa’s 2026 football schedule has 12 regular-season games: it opened September 5 against Northern Illinois, has its only bye on October 17, and ends with Nebraska at Kinnick Stadium on Friday, November 27. The table below covers the full season and is ready to print. Further down you’ll find how to save the official schedule as a PDF, so your copy always matches what Iowa publishes.

Everything here is as of October 15, 2026. Several kickoff times are still TBA and TV networks can change, so treat the official schedule on hawkeyesports.com as the final word.

The 2026 Iowa Hawkeyes football schedule

Dates and opponents come from Iowa’s official schedule announcement (January 27, 2026). Kickoff times and networks come from Iowa’s May 27 start-time release and later announcements noted below. All times are Central.

Notes on the table

• Ohio State: The Buckeyes’ athletic department announced a 3:30 p.m. ET (2:30 p.m. CT) kickoff on CBS at Kinnick Stadium.
• Washington: Iowa’s May release set the Friday night game for 8 p.m. CT on FOX or FS1. Some third-party schedules list this game as October 10, but the official start-time release and later game coverage place it on Friday, October 9.
• Minnesota: As of October 12, Hawk Central and FOX 9 reported an afternoon start at either 2:00 or 2:30 p.m. CT, with the network not yet chosen. This is the Floyd of Rosedale trophy game.
• Wisconsin: Iowa’s May release said the Homecoming game will kick off no later than 4 p.m. CT. The exact time had not been posted as of mid-October.
• Nebraska: The January release text mentioned November 28, but its own schedule listing and later reporting put the game on Black Friday, November 27. The May release then set an 11 a.m. CT kickoff on CBS.
• Michigan: The game has been played. Sources we checked did not agree on the exact posted kickoff time, so it is left off the table.

Where the season stands

Per Hawk Central’s October 12 schedule update, Iowa is 5-1 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten after beating Washington 41-24 in Seattle on October 9. The Hawkeyes are idle on October 17, at the midpoint of the 12-game regular season, and return at Minnesota on October 24.

If you’re printing now, the useful part of the schedule is the second half: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois and Nebraska. Three of those six are home games at Kinnick Stadium.

How to make your own printable PDF from the official schedule

Third-party “printable PDF” downloads are often made months before the season and can’t reflect time changes. A PDF you make yourself from the official page is current on the day you print it, and you can redo it in a minute whenever times are announced.

On a computer (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari)

1. Open the official football schedule at hawkeyesports.com/sports/football/schedule.
2. If the page offers a list or text view, switch to it. It usually prints more cleanly than a card or grid layout.
3. Press Ctrl+P (Windows) or Cmd+P (Mac).
4. Set the destination or printer to Save as PDF (on a Mac, use the PDF button at the bottom of the print dialog).
5. Under more settings, turn off headers and footers and turn on background graphics if you want the team colors.
6. Check the preview, then save.

On a phone

1. Open the same official schedule page in Safari or Chrome.
2. Tap the Share button (iPhone) or the three-dot menu (Android), then choose Print.
3. On iPhone, pinch outward on the print preview to open it as a PDF, then share or save it to Files. On Android, choose Save as PDF as the printer.

Printing the table on this page

You can also print the table above the same way. It fits on one letter-size page in portrait. Just remember it is a snapshot as of October 15, 2026, so pencil in TBA times as they’re announced.

Keeping your printed schedule accurate

Iowa has said that most kickoff times are set during the season through the Big Ten’s 12-day and 6-day selection windows. In practice, that means:

• Late October games get their times about one to two weeks out. The Minnesota time was reported on October 12 for an October 24 game.
• November games (Northwestern, Purdue and Illinois) will likely stay TBA until early to mid November.
• Networks can change even after a time is set, especially for Friday night games.

A good routine is to print once now and make a fresh PDF each Monday during game weeks, or simply write in times as Iowa announces them on its official schedule and social channels.

Printed PDF vs. other ways to follow the schedule

Quick reference: home and away games

Home at Kinnick Stadium (7): Northern Illinois, Iowa State, Northern Iowa, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Nebraska.

Away (5): Michigan, Washington, Minnesota, Northwestern, Illinois.

Friday games (2): at Washington on October 9 and vs. Nebraska on November 27.

If you’re planning travel for a road game, wait for the official kickoff time before booking anything that depends on it. For the TBA games, Iowa’s start-time release is clear that the time comes from the conference and its TV partners, not the school alone.