a common mistake about Iowa

Popular sportswriter Rick Reilly addresses the following to Nebraska, which is now switching to the Big Ten conference:

“Forget Oklahoma. Now it’s Iowa, like it or not. You close out your regular season with the Hawkeyes on the day after Thanksgiving at home. Iowa’s a natural for you. Both your states are so flat you can watch a train pull out for three days.”

Iowa is not flat. Try bicycling it some time.

Iowa tends to be rolling, glaciated land, and in the northeast it is filled with all kinds of very steep hills.

I walked up and down a steep hill to school every day. It’s not flat. Try Kansas.