23 – it opens with West Virginia, then hosts Delaware and then travels to Illinois before facing Iowa. There is no guarantee Penn State will be 3-0 by Sept.
There is little love lost between fans or the Iowa and Penn State programs.īeyond those angles, there’s the possibility that this will be a monster matchup. Incidentally, Kirk Ferentz’s son-in-law, Iowa recruiting director Tyler Barnes, once worked for Franklin at Vanderbilt.
Penn State coach James Franklin fired back a day later, saying that faking injuries was “not part of our plan” and that, “I don't think that's the right thing for college football, booing guys when they get hurt.”
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Three days after the game, Ferentz backed his fans on the injury-faking allegations by saying, “They smelled a rat” and mentioned that two coaches on Iowa’s staff knew of code words like “scuba” or “turtle” that opponents used to feign injuries and stop the clock. Some Iowa fans booed some Penn State players who got injured in that game (some of whom returned a play or two later) even Hawkeye special-teams coordinator LeVar Woods dramatically indicated to officials that Nittany Lion players were taking dives to stop the clock as Iowa built comeback momentum after trailing, 17-3. 9, 2021, in a top-five showdown at Kinnick Stadium. Second, there is a lot of lingering bad blood over the Hawkeyes’ 23-20 win on Oct. This will be quite a Big Ten opener in Kirk Ferentz’s 25 th season as Iowa’s head coach.Ī crowd of perhaps 110,000-plus almost entirely clad in white − save for a small section of black-and-gold bumblebees in the upper-deck corner − will be salivating for this matchup on many levels.įirst, the Nittany Lions with phenom Drew Allar at quarterback and electric running back Nick Singleton are expected to be legit Big Ten East contenders with College Football Playoff hopes.
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