The Iowa Hawkeyes host the Michigan State Spartans today hoping to crush coach Jonathan Smith’s listless program here in Week 13.

Live updates from Iowa vs. Nebraska football at Memorial Stadium Friday, November 28, 2025

The Iowa Hawkeyes await a bowl destination pending conference championship results. Check out the latest projections for the Hawkeyes.

The Iowa Hawkeyes (7-4) are hitting the road to Memorial Stadium on Friday, November 28, 2025 where they will go up against the Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-4). Iowa opens this game as 6.5-point favorites. The over/under has been set at 39.5.

College football Week 13 odds, picks, predictions, TV channel, streaming for Michigan State Spartans vs Iowa Hawkeyes game on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025.

College Football News dove into the Iowa Hawkeyes' game against Michigan State and offered a prediction on who can win and how they do so.

The last two years, Iowa football beat Nebraska on game-winning field goals. In 2023, it was backup Marshall Meeder who was the hero in Lincoln. In 2024, it was Drew Stevens to deliver the walk-off dagger. But that was not needed in 2025.

The Spartans’ penultimate game is against Iowa (6-4, 4-3), which will be MSU’s final road game this year and the Hawkeyes’ senior day. Kickoff is set for 3:40 p.m. ET on FS1. Michigan State’s season finale is against Maryland, who enters the weekend 4-6 overall and 1-6 during B1G play, at Ford Field in Detroit on Nov. 29.

The Hawkeyes had a total 21 athletes receive Big Ten awards this season, including three offensive linemen earning first team honors.

Mark Gronowski rallied the troops just in time. After a Stevens field goal early in the fourth brought Iowa within a touchdown, Gronowski hit Jacob Gill for a 13-yard score in the back corner of the north end zone with 1:29 left. Following another defensive stop, the Hawkeyes got the ball back with 41 seconds left and went to work.