The Daily Iowan Pregame - 11.12.2021

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Saturday, November 13 Iowa vs. Minnesota Kinnick Stadium

RILEY’S RETURN Iowa CB Riley Moss is expected to play against Minnesota after missing a month with an injury.

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Iowa Starters

MARQUEE MATCHUP

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Minnesota Starters

Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa quarterback Alex Padilla passes the ball during a football game between Iowa and Northwestern at Ryan Field on Nov. 6. Padilla is making his first college start this weekend against Minnesota in a game that is pivotal to Iowa’s Big Ten West chances.

STAFF

Iowa has a new quarterback on its hands. Sophomore Alex Padilla will take over for injured starter Spencer Petras this Saturday at Kinnick Stadium. And Padilla, in his first-ever collegiate start, will go up against the fifth-best passing defense in the Big Ten. Padilla and redshirt freshman quarterback Deuce Hogan are listed on the depth chart as the Hawkeyes’ quarterbacks against the Gophers. Petras, still recovering from his injury, was not listed. Padilla has only played in garbage time behind Petras for the past two seasons. That is, until the sophomore took over for Petras in the first quarter of the Hawkeyes’ game against Northwestern last week. After Petras went 2-for-4 for four yards on three drives, Padilla finished the game on 18-for-28 passing for 172 yards. Padilla marched the Hawkeyes down the field,

completing touchdowns in his first two drives. But throughout the entire second half, Padilla and the Hawkeye offense could only muster a field goal against Northwestern. The new Hawkeye quarterback will have to bring a spark to Iowa’s offense — one that ranks 95th in the country with just 24.4 points per game — against a stout Golden Gophers defense.

While the 6-3 Gophers are coming off a loss to Illinois, the Minnesota defense only gave up 14 points in the defeat. Minnesota is 15th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing just 18.33 points per game. The Gopher defense has also notched four interceptions on the season and conceded an average of 195.7 passing yards through their first nine games. Read The Daily Iowan’s full scouting report at dailyiowan.com - Chloe Peterson, Assistant Sports Editor.

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Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Riley Moss returns an interception for a touchdown during a football game between Iowa and Indiana at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 4. Moss has not played since Oct. 9 against Penn State because of an injury.

Moss makes a comeback

The senior cornerback has missed the Hawkeyes’ last three games with a knee injury he suffered in Iowa’s win over Penn State.

Austin Hanson Sports Editor As wide receiver Drew Carswell navigates his way into the north end zone at Kinnick Stadium from four yards out to score a touchdown and give Pittsburgh a 24-3 lead over Iowa, an

11-year-old Riley Moss turns to his father, Mark Moss, and asks to go home.

Mark faces his son on that fateful September afternoon and says, “Riley, if we leave now, we’re going to miss the greatest comeback in Iowa football history.”

Soon after Mark makes his bold prediction, the 2011 Hawkeyes begin to rally, scoring 28 points in the final 18 minutes of the game.

As the game clock expires, the scoreboard reads 31-28, in favor of Iowa. Ri-

ley then acknowledges that his father was right all along and thanks him for staying until the game was over.

In an interview with The Daily Iowan on Oct. 2, 2021, Mark admitted that he didn’t really believe Iowa was going to come back and

win the game.

Riley only dreamed of playing football at the University of Iowa back in 2011. Now, thanks at least in part to the encouragement of his father, Riley is one of the staples in an Iowa secondary that leads the

nation in interceptions.

A dream takes shape From the moment he was born, Riley was never pushed into football. Mark — a former Waldorf University football player — and

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Riley’s mother, Beth Moss, decided they wouldn’t thrust Riley toward the game until he asked.

While Riley might not have been forced into football, he was destined to be a Hawkeye fan. Mark was an avid Iowa fan throughout his childhood, and he held Hawkeye football season tickets while he and Beth were raising Riley in Newton, and eventually Ankeny, Iowa.

Mark said Riley first asked about playing football for the Hawkeyes right around the same time he started playing flag football in Newton.

“I don’t know [exactly] how old he was,” Mark said.

“I don’t know if it was five years old. You know, maybe, five, six, seven years old or something like that. We held season tickets. So, Riley would go with a buddy and I to games and we’d tailgate out at the Finkbine Commut-

er Lot. We had a lot of fun, and I remember Riley asking me one day, ‘You think I can play for the Iowa Hawkeyes?’

And I think, you know, like every parent, I just said, ‘Absolutely, I know you can.’

“Like lots of things, sometimes you say things to your kids and whether you believe it or not . . . you just make them believe it,” Mark added.

“I think that was just one of the things that we did.”

The journey to Iowa City begins As Riley aged, he started to put his athleticism on full display and make it clear that a post-diploma athletic career might be in the cards for him.

In high school, Riley earned All-State and All-District honors as a football player.

On the track, Riley won an Iowa state championship in

the 110-meter high hurdles.

His 13.85-second 110-meter high hurdle time is the fastest in the history of Iowa high school athletics.

After his junior year of high school, Riley sat down with his parents, who asked him what his post-high school goals were. Riley told his mother and father that he wanted to play Division II football or higher. He said if he couldn’t achieve that goal, he’d try to run track in college.

Riley, Mark, and Beth began to create a list of Division II and Division I FCS and FBS schools across the country that Riley might like to attend. Once they’d created a list of schools Riley could enroll to play football at, Mark and Beth asked their son which school he’d most like to go to.

As they might’ve expected, Riley told them his dream school was the University

of Iowa.

At that point, however, Riley wasn’t on Hawkeye head coach Kirk Ferentz’s radar.

“It’s funny, when we recruited him, it wasn’t like we were on him as a sophomore or freshman,” Ferentz said.

“It was later in the process.”

With one year of high school remaining, Riley began attending football camps at universities like Northern Illinois, North Dakota State, and South Dakota State. Riley did not participate in the Hawkeyes’ summer camp in 2017.

Riley’s performance in the camps he did go to, coupled with the abilities he showcased on the track, helped him grab the attention of college football coaches across the Midwest.

The first school that invited Riley to join its football program once he graduated from Centennial High School was North Dakota State —

the institution he originally committed to.

Moss’ commitment to the Bison didn’t last long, though.

In August 2017, Riley received a letter in the mail from the UI. Once he opened and read it, he tossed it aside.

Riley then left the Moss household with one of his friends to go fishing.

A few weeks later, now-retired Iowa defensive line coach Reese Morgan contacted Riley.

“Reese Morgan reached out to him and said, ‘Riley, we know you’re committed to North Dakota State, and we’d love to talk to you, but if your commitment is solid, we’ll leave you alone,’” Mark said. “Riley said, ‘Nope, I’d like to talk with you.’”

Riley did a few game visits to Kinnick Stadium and subsequently decommitted from North Dakota State to sign with the Hawkeyes.

“Every time [Riley] went for a game visit at Iowa, he called [then-NDSU head coach Chris Klieman] and said, ‘Hey coach, I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to go to a game at Iowa,’” Mark said. “He kept [Klieman] posted along the way, and you know, I remember after Riley decommitted [from NDSU] and committed to Iowa . . . Klieman reached out to me and said, ‘You’ve raised a really good kid there, and we appreciate how open and honest he was with us along the process.’”

Aspirations realized

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Riley Moss celebrates an interception on the sideline during a football game between Iowa and Maryland at Maryland Stadium on Oct. 1.

When Riley joined the Iowa football team ahead of the 2018 season, he brought the athleticism he had in high school with him to college.

That helped him play in all 13 of Iowa’s games as a true freshman. Riley even started in five of the Hawkeyes’ contests that season.

But Riley didn’t have the football IQ needed to play cornerback at the Division I level, and it showed — particularly in matchups against Purdue.

Riley was part of a secondary that gave up nearly 1,000 passing yards and nine touchdowns in three matchups with the Boilermakers from 2018-20. “[Riley] went from just being a great athlete, who we could throw out there and play corner and make some plays, to now,” senior safety Jack Koerner said. “He’s really developed into kind of a football mind, who we can sit down with outside the facility and talk about football and he knows what I’m talking about. Rather than, you know, early on in his career when he just knew, ‘Hey, cover this guy.’

“So, he’s really progressed as a football mind,” Koerner added. “He’s always been that great athlete who can cover guys. But that’s something that’s made him become a much better player is just understanding kind of the way football works a little bit and the way our defense works.”

Riley’s enhanced understanding of football, his position, and Iowa’s defense has helped him elevate not only his own game, but Iowa’s pass defense as a whole this season.

In Iowa’s 34-6 win over Indiana Sept. 4, Riley recorded two pick sixes. His first interception came with 12:45 remaining in the first

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MOSS

Continued from Page 5 quarter. Riley caught a tipped Michael Penix Jr. pass at the Indiana 30-yard line on the east side of Kinnick Stadium and raced into the north end zone to score.

Riley picked Penix Jr. off for a second time with under two minutes left in the first half. An errant throw from Penix Jr. fell right into Riley’s hands at the Iowa 45-yard line. The 6-foot-1, 194-pound senior went untouched into Kinnick Stadium’s south end zone

for a score.

“To be honest, there was nothing going through my mind just because it happened so fast,” Riley said.

“Next thing I know, I’m in the end zone. I didn’t even know how to react. It was just so quick, and I will never forget it for the rest of my life.”

Riley is part of an Iowa secondary that has recorded an NCAA-leading 19 interceptions in 2021.

In the Big Ten Conference, the Hawkeyes rank second, sixth, and fourth in scoring, pass, and total defense, respectively. The Hawkeyes’

defense is also the most efficient in the Big Ten, statistically speaking.

Iowa’s secondary has allowed about 206 pass yards and one touchdown per game in 2021.

“I think [the secondary] has come a really long way,” Koerner said. “We’ve gotten a lot tighter and close-knit as a group, where that level of trust is really really something people on the outside maybe don’t understand, necessarily. That level of trust is really important on the field . . . All of us have gotten a bit more experience too and that’s really helped.”

Iowa has been without Riley for its last three games.

He suffered a knee injury in Iowa’s 23-20 win over thenNo. 4 Penn State Oct. 9.

Riley intercepted a pass thrown by Nittany Lion backup QB Ta’Quan Roberson, hitting the turf at Kinnick Stadium in the process.

When officials blew the play dead, Riley popped right up off the ground. But as he began to celebrate, he fell back down onto Duke Slater Field, grabbing his leg in pain.

Riley exited the game and did not return. Soon after his injury, Riley was seen sporting a knee immobilizer.

Before Riley got hurt, the Hawkeyes were 6-0. Since his injury, they’ve gone 1-2. In two of their games without Riley, the Hawkeyes didn’t record a single interception.

Ferentz said at his weekly press conference with reporters Tuesday that he expects Riley to play in Iowa’s home matchup against Minnesota on Saturday — barring any setback during the week.

Riley’s lifelong dream of playing for the Hawkeyes was fully realized on Oct. 6, 2018, when he earned the first start of his college career against Minneso-

ta. Now, over three years later, Riley will resume his career-best season against the Golden Gophers. Riley hasn’t played a game in 34 days, but he is still tied for the Big Ten lead with four picks this year.

“It’s really cool,” Riley said. “[Playing football at Iowa] was my dream since I was a little kid . . . I kept working hard and then I worked hard here. So, the dreams became a reality.

So, that’s why I’ve really kept setting goals and trying to reach those goals.” austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Riley Moss celebrates an interception from teammate Matt Hankins during a football game between Iowa and Iowa State at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames on Sept. 11. Moss is tied for the Big Ten lead with four picks this season.

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WITH IOWA WIDE RECEIVER KEAGAN JOHNSON Daily Iowan Sports Editor Austin Hanson chatted with Johnson at an Iowa football media availability session on Nov. 2.

Austin Hanson Sports Editor

it is. That was definitely my welcome to Iowa football.

But my welcome to football at Iowa moment definitely came in camp. The linebackers on this team are a different breed. Sometimes, you get a good shot.

The Daily Iowan: So, is there a story behind the bee earrings you wear?

Keagan Johnson: I don’t really have a crazy story about that. I went to the mall with my mom back home. We were shopping at one of her stores.

I saw the earrings, and I was like, “Maybe I’ll be different.”

I see everyone with the normal diamond studs. Let’s go with something different.

DI: Is there one guy that’s hit you that’s made you be like, “Man, I don’t want to go through that again?”

Johnson: Yeah, [linebacker] Seth Benson. No, I take that back, [cash] Dane Belton. I was going in on a crack block, and he got me pretty good. That’s when I realized I was not in high school anymore. So, from then on, I made sure I’d go in with some intent.

DI: Is there a story behind your chain?

Johnson: No, same deal.

Just be different.

DI: I’ll preface this question with this: I run a 7.37-second 40-yard dash.

Johnson: Alright, 7.37.

DI: Do you think I’d have any chance to guard you oneon-one?

Johnson: I would say no.

But there’s like the story of the turtle and the hare. Maybe if I got overly confident, you would have a chance. 7.37 is tough, though. I’d give you a chance if it was a five-second, but I’d say no.

DI: What’s your 40-yard dash time?

Johnson: Honestly, I hav-

Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa wide receiver Keagan Johnson runs the ball during a football game between Iowa and Northwestern at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois, on Nov. 6. en’t ran a 40 recently. I would like to think it’s pretty good.

But yeah, I couldn’t give you a number right now.

DI: Better than 7.37, right?

Johnson: Hopefully faster than 7.37.

DI: Obviously, you’re a freshman. Do you eat at the dining halls here at the University of Iowa at all?

Johnson: We stay in Petersen Hall. So, I try to go over to Hillcrest Hall as much as I can. Me and [wide receiver] Arland Bruce will go over there together and eat sometimes. Definitely get the ice cream. That’s kinda the go-to.

ly, because we got the mini fridge in the dorm room.

They stock the cooler. I mean, it’s free. So, you might as well.

football at this level?

DI: Have you had a welcome to Iowa football moment yet this year?

DI: Yeah, hit that cooler and put a bunch in a bag and leave.

Johnson: Not during the season. I probably did in camp though. What do you mean by, “Welcome to Iowa football?” Like welcome to

Johnson: OK, if you’re talking about that, then the Indiana game was definitely my welcome to Iowa football moment. That atmosphere was just crazy. When you see that many people that are here to watch you play, it’s kinda crazy how electrifying

Johnson: Yeah, definite-

DI: Yeah, a moment where you were just like, “Wow, I’m here. This is crazy.”

DI: You’ve had some pretty impressive stretches for the goal line this year. Do you do yoga for that? Is that just athleticism you were born with?

Johnson: I don’t know.

I feel like that’s just will.

That’s just pure will. I’m just trying to score every time I get the ball. I’m just trying to score by any means necessary, really.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Read the full interview at dailyiowan.com.

austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

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Why is Purdue like this?

CHRIS WERNER

christopher-werner@uiowa.edu

1

ohio state

8

illinois

2

michigan

9

minnesota

3 4 5

This wasn’t hard.

I guess that loss to Michigan State looks worse now?

michigan state I mean, Purdue’s gonna Purdue.

wisconsin

Did we think the Badgers would never hit their stride?

penn state

The Nittany Lions are always supposed to be great and end up average.

Bielema’s boys can play some ball.

“I don’t understand the tie under the quarter zip.” Robert Read

10 nebraska

The best team in the country that doesn’t win games.

11

indiana

I’ve stopped following the Hoosiers. I’m not sad about it.

12 maryland

I mean, better than Rutgers and Northwestern.

6

Purdue

13

rutgers

7

iowa

14

Northwestern

I don’t know anymore.

Wow! You beat Northwestern!

How did this team beat Illinois?

Oof.

No. 6 MICHIGAN @ PENN STATE

No. 19 PURDUE @ No. 4 OHIO STATE

Saturday | 11 a.m.

Saturday | 2:30 p.m.

Line: EVEN | O/U: 49

Line: OSU -20.0 | O/U: 62

If you want to watch Big Ten football this week, this is the game.

Alright Purdue, do it again. I dare you.

NORTHWESTERN @ No. 18 WISCONSIN

MINNESOTA @ No. 20 IOWA

Saturday | 11 a.m.

Saturday | 2:30 p.m.

Line: WISC -24.5 | O/U: 41

Line: IOWA -5.5 | O/U: 37

You read that spread correctly.

A mobile quarterback? It can’t be.

RUTGERS @ INDIANA

MARYLAND @ No. 7 MICHIGAN STATE

Saturday | 11 a.m.

Saturday | 3 p.m.

Line: IU -7.0 | O/U: 42

Line: MSU -13.0 | O/U: 62

Don’t watch this game if you can help it.

Should be a nice bounce back for the bunch in East Lansing.

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ROBERT READ

PREGAME EDITOR (26-19)

VS.

IOWA

How long until Hawkeye fans start asking for Deuce to start?

MICHIGAN

AUSTIN HANSON SPORTS EDITOR (30-15)

IOWA

I love that hawk that will be on this field.

MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN

VS.

VS.

The OU Daily monitored OU’s QB situation with bincoluars. Hmm...

VS.

I’d love observing a Kirk Ferentz-Lane Kiffin conversation.

A&M > Alabama > Ole Miss.

WAKE FOREST

WAKE FOREST

TEXAS A&M

VS.

The world wasn’t ready for undefeated Wake Forest.

IOWA

Do the Hawks have a QB now?

I want at least 10 (ten) overtimes out of this game.

OKLAHOMA

CHLOE PETERSON

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR (24-21)

Are either of these teams legit?

OKLAHOMA

WE ARE bad.

OKLAHOMA

Baylor is a fake team.

I just want both teams to have fun.

TEXAS A&M

TEXAS A&M

Can Wake lose two straight games to NC teams?

Yeah, sports!

WAKE FOREST

I stand by my statement that Demon Deacons is a terrible nickname.

CHRIS WERNER

FOOTBALL REPORTER (24-21)

IOWA

DESTINEE COOK

IOWA

You can’t lose to Illinois and expect me to pick you.

Padilla this, Petras that ... just play football.

PENN STATE

MICHIGAN

Hard to pick against the Nittany Lions at home.

OKLAHOMA

I can only root for the Bears once a weekend.

TEXAS A&M

In the SEC, there’s Georgia, ‘Bama, and everbody else.

NC STATE

Wake Forest finally woke up from the dream.

JOHN BOHNENKAMP

DITV SPORTS DIRECTOR (25-20) SPORTS WRITING COACH (28-17)

Go blue.

OKLAHOMA

I’m a Caleb Williams supporter.

TEXAS A&M

IOWA

Can’t wait to deal with all the QB tweets.

PENN STATE

Maybe the Nittany Lions have finally recovered from the Iowa loss.

OKLAHOMA

Sooners need to keep winning for CFP chance.

OLE MISS

I’m not in a hotty toddy mood right now.

Speaking of tweets, things kind of went wrong this weekend.

WAKE FOREST

WAKE FOREST

I didn’t forget about your cute undefeated moment. Rip.

It was a nice undefeated run for Wake Forest.

JASON BRUMMOND PUBLISHER (30-15)

IOWA

I hope Kirk saves his timeouts for the final minute.

MICHIGAN

I’m still not counting Michigan out in the Big Ten East.

OKLAHOMA

Why does the playoff committee not like Oklahoma?

TEXAS A&M

Iowa could see one of these teams come bowl season.

WAKE FOREST

Wake’s offense is too much.

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Kid Captain combines love of drumming, football Lucas Moore, an 8-year-old from Fort Dodge, will join the Hawkeyes for their game against Minnesota.

Moore was diagnosed with DiGeorge Syndrome and has had multiple surgeries to help his speech.

Kelsey Harrell Managing Digital Editor The coming weekend will be filled with excitement for Kid Captain Lucas Moore. His funfilled day will begin by meeting the Hawkeye Marching Band drumline, followed by an opportunity to be the center of attention at Kinnick Stadium, all while spending time with his family and enjoying football.

Lucas, an 8-year-old from Fort Dodge, will join the Hawkeyes for their game against Minnesota on Saturday — a game his parents specifically requested him to be Kid Captain for.

Nicholas Moore, Lucas’ father, said they wanted Lucas to be Kid Captain for the Minnesota game for two reasons.

First, part of their family are Minnesota fans and second, Fort Dodge is near where the live Floyd of Rosedale pig was from.

Lucas was diagnosed with DiGeorge Syndrome when he was 2 years old. DiGeorge Syndrome — or 22q11.2 deletion — is a condition where the 22nd largest chromosome is missing a piece. It can cause immunodeficiency and other health problems. He got this diagnosis after coming to the University of Iowa Family Children’s Hospital after a recommendation from his doctor in Fort Dodge.

Deborah Kacmarynski, director of the cleft and cranio-

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa kid captain Lucas Moore and family pose with head coach Kirk Ferentz during “Kid’s Day at Kinnick” inside Kinnick Stadium on Aug. 14. facial team at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, met Lucas and knew he had a history of heart, breathing, and feeding issues. This gave her indication that he might have DiGeorge Syndrome, so she ordered a FISH test, a test that maps out genetic material in cells to detect abnormalities.

Kacmarynski performed a surgery on Lucas to correct his velopharyngeal insufficiency, meaning the hole con-

necting his nasal cavity to his throat doesn’t close enough when he’s speaking, by adding a pharyngeal flap.

Before the surgery, Lucas couldn’t say hard consonants like B, D, and P. After the surgery, he spoke easily and clearly, Kacmarynski said. He had a second surgery in 2020 to correct the insufficiency further after he went through more speech therapy and they realized the opening in his mouth wasn’t

closing enough, she added.

Kacmarynski said she will continue seeing Lucas into adulthood to make sure he doesn’t have other issues with his speech requiring additional surgeries.

“It’s interesting to see a kiddo grow through time,” she said. “I think that building a friendship with kids as they grow and mature is one of the really special parts of being here.”

Lisa Moore said Lucas’ DiGeorge Syndrome diagnosis was the final piece to the puzzle after he’d continued to get unexplained bacterial and viral infections.

When looking up DiGeorge Syndrome online, a long list of symptoms and problems is listed, but Lucas is only affected by a few of the conditions, Lisa said.

“Because they listened to all of our symptoms and con-

ditions and everything they had, they ordered the correct test, we got the correct diagnosis, and now we’re able to preventively treat and help him thrive,” she said.

Lucas has many interests, including playing multiple sports and studying the stars, planets, and weather, Nicholas said. He also is an avid drummer and has performed at a Christmas concert with the local community college and for his classmates. Lucas has learned different beats and riffs to play on his drum set and takes lessons from a local percussion instructor, Nicholas said.

“He seems to be very gifted on the drumming scene as an 8-year-old,” Nicholas said. “It’s impressive to watch him sit down, listen to some recordings and start playing along.”

Nicholas and his wife Lisa originally bought the drums for Lucas as a way to reward him for doing homework, but he quickly excelled at playing them.

Saturday isn’t Lucas’ first Hawkeye game, but he’s looking forward to getting a picture with Herky and meeting the football players, Lisa said.

“What I’m looking forward to is him just enjoying the moment, enjoying his day,” Nicholas said.

kelsey-harrell@uiowa.edu

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