Penn State hasn't quite been the power it used to be during most of Kirk's tenure.
Iowa flops when the preseason expectations are high, but succeeds when the preseason expectations are low. It's kinda weird.
Hey now, we may have lost to them twice (2007 and 2011), but one of those was Brew's first season and was a train-wreck 1-11 season with a lot of close losses while NDSU went 10-1, while the other was Jerry cleaning up after Brew where we went 3-9 with a win over Iowa, while NDSU went 14-1. And NDSU is 8-3 against FBS competition and has won the last 5 games they've played against FBS teams.
Iowa also gave Iowa State one of its 2 wins last season, and Iowa State also lost to NDSU in their opener last year.