[1] The team allowed an average of 200.7 yards per game, the best total defense in Iowa history.
[3] Eddie Anderson returned as a head coach for the Hawkeyes for his fifth season as Iowa's head coach; he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
[5] Tackle Bill Kay was selected as the team's most valuable player.
[6] Guard Earl Banks and fullback Dick Hoerner were selected as first-team players on the 1946 All-Big Nine Conference football team.
19 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.