Kirk Ferentz has been the Iowa head coach since 2002 and he has 204-124 records, so 204 wins with 124 losses. He passed legendary coach Hayden Fry with over 200 wins, and he has had 94 players drafted into the NFL including 12 first round picks.

Kirk Ferentz is the winningest coach in Big Ten football history. He has won the Big Ten championship twice, and he has won 10 bowl games, appeared in 22 bowl games, in 2002 he won AP college football coach of the year. He was named Big Ten coach of the year in 2002, 2004, 2009, and 2015.

Iowa has the best tradition in college football. At the end of the first quarter every home game player, the fans, and the coaches wave to the pediatric patients watching from the hospital. This is called the Hawkeye wave, which started in 2017 and Kirk Ferentz and his wife have donated over 1 million dollars to the hospital for research and other things the hospital does with the university of Iowa.