The Super Bowl is fast approaching and people will be watching in their millions all across the world. The Super Bowl has turned into an unofficial holiday, with family and friends holding Super Bowl parties all across the nation. However, it’s often hard what food everyone will enjoy when holding your party…

The Sports Geek have researched each state’s favorite Super Bowl snacks!

It has been revealed that Iowa’s favorite Super Bowl snacks are:

As well as Iowa’s favorite choices of dips:

Methodology

In order to create this ranking, The Sports Geek used Google Trends to determine the popularity of each snack and dip. The Google Trends score is made up of the searches over the past 30 days. They did this for each state in America.

1A REGIONAL DUALS

Riverside – 64 vs  Shenandoah – 14

Shenandoah – 49 vs Underwood – 23

Woodbury Central – 47 vs Logan-Magnolia vs 32

Interstate 35 – 42 vs Nodaway Valley – 35

Riverside Winners: AC Roller, Caden Forristall, Jackson Allen, Colton Hering, Kingston Carrigan, Maxx Danker, Davis Bramman, Kellen Oliver, Drew Anderson, Jaxon Gordon, Taven Moore

Shenandoah Winners: Lukus Major, Hayden Dukes, Jacob McGargill (2), Jayden Dickerson (2), Landon Fuller, Simon Hennings, Davin Holste, Cole Scamman (2), Tyler Babe

Underwood Winners: Avery Vacek, Landon Leaders, Ryan Fletcher, Lucas Bose

2A REGIONAL DUALS 

Atlantic 38 Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 28 

Winterset 46 Atlantic 22

Ballard 39 Creston 37 

Sergeant Bluff-Luton 58 Ballard 21

Atlantic Winners: Braxton Hass (2), Donovan Hedrington (2), Keaton Schroeder, Collin Harris, Aiden Smith, Jayden Harter, Roland Hinman, Dreven Smith, Evan Sorensen

Creston Winners: Gunner Martwick, Colt Key, Ben James, Landen Lillie, Lane Travis, Jackson Pettegrew, Weston Trapp

3A REGIONAL DUALS 

Ankeny Centennial 34 Lewis Central 33

Lewis Central winners: Don Elderbaum, Zander Manz, Owen Duffek, Carter Schorsch, Mandius Volentine, Paxton Blanchard, Joseph Monge

Regular Season Duals

Tri-Center 48 MVAOCOU 12

Tri-Center 38 East Sac County 36

Woodbine 66 Tri-Center 18

Woodbine 60 MVAOCOU 12

Woodbine 63 East Sac County 9

Tri-Center Winners: Noah Goodwin (3), Carter Gittins (3), Brant Freeberg (3), Matthew Tibbits (2), Charlie Morse (2), Athan Chessmore (2), Kiptyn Wagner (2), Christopher Rock

Woodbine winners: Brenner Sullivan (3), Layne Thomas (3), Connor Murdock (3), Theo Kuker (3), Lucas Olson (3), Evan Lindmier (3), Lawson Bendgen (3), Cameron Flaherty (3), Brogen Arocho (3), Tony Kuker (2), Corey Wagner (2), Jacob Cogdill

The UNI men visit Missouri State in Missouri Valley Conference action Wednesday night. The Panthers are third in the league race at 8-4. The Bears are in the basement at 1-11 but UNI coach Ben Jacobson says they cause concerns.

The Panthers won the first meeting 79-68 in Cedar Falls.

Jacobson says the key for the Panthers during the stretch run will be defense and rebounding.

Iowa will be without leading scorer and rebounder Owen Freeman tonight when the Hawkeyes host seventh ranked Purdue, tonight (Tuesday). Freeman will miss the remainder of the season after having surgery on an injured finger. Even with national player of the year Zach Edey gone Purdue coach Matt Painter has another competitive team. The Boilers are second in the Big Ten at 9-2.

That’s Iowa coach Fran McCaffery who says it always starts with defense and rebounding for Purdue.

Senior forward Payton Sandfort says it won’t be easy to replace Freeman’s production.

Sandfort says without Freeman rebounding must be a priority.

Listen to the action on KJAN beginning at 5-p.m. with the pre-game. Tip-off is at 6-p.m.

(Des Moines, Iowa) —A lawmaker from west-central Iowa has introduced a bill into the Iowa legislature that calls for a  permanent monument of Hawkeye legends Caitlin Clark and former coach Lisa Bluder. House File 203 was introduced Monday by State Rep. Carter Nordman of Panora. In a post on “X,” Rep. Nordman said “In honor of @CaitlinClark22’s jersey retirement and the historic success of @IowaWBB, I have filed a bill to commission a statue of Caitlin and @LisaBluder here on the Iowa Capitol complex.”

Nordman said also, “These two women have brought great pride and attention to our state and women’s sports. They deserve a place at their Capitol for Iowans to honor their incredible accomplishments!”

The monument would be located on the grounds of the Capitol, but a location would be determined later. It would be paid for by tax credits.

(Radio Iowa) – Major League Baseball announced Monday that it has fired umpire Pat Hoberg (Hoe-berg), an Urbandale native, for violating the league’s gambling rules. Information on the M-L-B website says an M-L-B investigation found no evidence that Hoberg placed bets on baseball or that he took any action to manipulate the outcomes of any games. But by sharing legal sports betting accounts with a professional poker player and friend who did place bets on baseball and by impeding the M-L-B investigation through the deletion of messages with the friend, Hoberg was ruled by M-L-B to have failed to uphold the integrity of the game.

The 38-year-old Hoberg first umpired Major League games in 2014 and became a full-time umpire in 2017. He umpired postseason games every year from 2018 to 2022 and was widely regarded as one of the game’s best ball-strike umpires.

GIRLS

Hawkeye Ten Conference 

St. Albert – 53 vs Kuemper Catholic – 38 

Rolling Valley Conference 

Coon Rapids-Bayard – 52 vs Paton-Churdan 21

Non-Conference 

Atlantic – 56 vs Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 48

Harlan – 64 vs Winterset 55

Creston – 60 vs Clarke 27

Shenandoah – 62 vs Thomas Jefferson 13 

Martensdale-St. Marys – 45 vs Panorama 35

BOYS

Western Iowa Conference 

Audubon – 53 vs Riverside 47

Rolling Valley Conference 

Coon Rapids-Bayard – 88 vs Paton-Churdan 53

Non-Conference 

Winterset – 60 vs Harlan – 48

Creston – 75 vs Clarke – 62

Hamburg – 80 vs Whiting – 29

Make it three losses in a row for Iowa State. Kansas raced out to a 16 point halftime and the 16th ranked Jayhawks beat the number eight Cyclones 69-52 in Lawrence, Monday night. Despite the loss, Cyclone coach T.J. Otzelbeger was pleased with the effort.

The Cyclones shot an ice cold 31 percent for the game, including three-of-21 from three point range.

Otzelberger says cold shooting did not impact the Cyclones in other areas of the game.

Keshon Gilbert, Joshua Jefferson and Tamin Lipsey all had 11 points as the Cyclones fall to 7-4 in the Big 12 and 17-5 overall. ISU returns to action Saturday by hosting TCU.

In a battle that came down to the final minute, the Atlantic Trojans girls basketball team defeated the Exira-EHK Spartans 56-48. Both teams had tremendous efforts up and down the court in what was a fast-moving quick-paced game. However, it was the depth scoring and ability to get to the free-throw line that ultimately made the difference for Atlantic.

The opening minutes of the game belonged to the Spartans. Taryn Petersen hit two three-pointers in the first quarter as Exira-EHK raced out to a 10-2 lead. However, the Trojans soon found their footing. Thanks to four points from Zoey Kirchhoff and Katrina Williams Atlantic scored 13 of the next 15 points to take a 3-point lead. Overall, the Trojans played better in the second quarter. Paytn Hartr started to hit her stride knocking down a pair of field goals and three free throws. Although Katrina Williams collected 12 points throughout the night, her and the Trojans were solid defensively. The only points Atlantic allowed in the second quarter were a Taryn Petersen field goal and three-pointer as the Trojans took a 29-17 lead to the half.

Much like the start of the game, the Spartans came out in the second half ready to go. Despite the start from Exira-EHK, early on it seemed like Atlantic had an answer for everything the Spartans threw at them. However, Exira-EHK continued to chip away. Petersen was fantastic for the Spartans. Leading the game with 34-points, she hit four threes as a part of her 14 points in the third quarter. This helped bring the Exira-EHK deficit to just two at the end of the third. However, this would be as close as the Spartans would get. Despite bringing the deficit back to two late in the game, they could not get over the hump. This was in large part due to the Trojans’ ability to not only get to the foul line but also convert. Throughout the course of the game Atlantic went 18-20 at the charity stripe. Eight of Kirchhoff’s fourteen points came off of free-throws. Depth scoring was also a factor. In addition to Kirchhoff and Williams, Hartr was the third Trojan to tally double digits points leading the team with 21. It was a well fought game, that Atlantic was able to pull away at the end. Head coach Dan Vargason was proud of his team’s ability to battle adversity.

In addition to their scoring, Vargason was also impressed with other attributes that Williams and Kirchhoff brought to the effort.

With just over a week left in the regular season, Vargason hopes his team continues to grow.

The win moves Atlantic to 13-6 while the Spartans fall to 14-4. Atlantic is back in action tomorrow when they face Red Oak while Exira-EHK remains at home against Paton-Churdan.