part of the problem in the 90's was other schools started to hire Fry staff. coaches like Bill Snyder, Barry Alvarez. plus Fry's health was starting to go down hill, so he started to hire younger coaches to replace his long Time assistants to build a coaching staff around Bob Elliots who Fry was grooming to take his place.80s would have been a dandy of a series with the majority of the games true toss ups. 90s tilt HEAVILY toward Nebraska. The 90 and 91 Iowa teams were better in my opinion, but from 92-99...Nebraska was way, way better (92 and 97 would probably be good games with Nebraska likely winning - 92 Iowa was a tough out until little Hartlieb got hurt, 97 same thing - a tough out until injuries mounted - specifically Banks) In the 90s a couple of these hypothetical match-ups would hypothetically be really long days for Iowa.
Bob had a illness that prevented that from happening
the boosters and fans wanted Bob Stoops to take over but the AD Bowlsby wanted a yes man, and never offered Stoops and as most thought that Stoops would have taken the job as Iowa was his Alma Matter as he played under Hayden
so KF was picked and in 3 years Iowa was playing a bowl game then in year 4 they went 8-0 BT and a BT Championship. then in 2004 they won their 2nd BT Championship @7-1