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Minnesota Starters

Iowa running back LeShun Daniels, Jr. runs down field in Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 14, 2015.

Heading into its 2015 matchup against Minnesota at Kinnick Stadium, the Iowa football team was 9-0 and seeking the first 10-0 start in program history. Iowa running back LeShun Daniels Jr. opened the game’s scoring with a three-yard touchdown run with 4:23 remaining in the first quarter. Daniels scored again with 44 seconds remaining in the first half to give the Hawkeyes a 24-14 lead at halftime. The Gophers kept the game competitive throughout, and by the end of the third quarter the Hawkeyes only led by six points. With just over two minutes remaining in the game, Iowa led by five and had the ball, looking to secure its victory. Daniels Jr. took a second-and-6 handoff, ran to the right on a zone play, made a defender miss, and sprinted into the end zone for his third touchdown of the game to put Iowa up 4028. Minnesota did put together a quick scoring drive to bring it to within five points, but Iowa held on to secure Publisher: Jason Brummond Executive Editor: Sarah Watson Pregame Editor: Robert Read Managing Editor: Alexandra Skores Managing Digital Editor: Kelsey Harrell

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the 40-35 victory and 10-0 start to the season. Daniels Jr. finished with a career-high 195 yards rushing and three touchdowns in the victory, which secured the Floyd of Rosedale for the Hawkeyes. Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard completed 18 of his 26 passes on the night for 213 yards. Matt Vandeberg led Iowa in receiving, catching six passes for 74 yards. Beathard also ran for 50 yards and two touchdowns. Defensively, middle linebacker Josey Jewell led the way for the Hawkeyes, compiling 13 tackles and a sack. Iowa’s victory over Minnesota in this game started a five-game win streak for the Hawkeyes in the series, a streak Iowa will look to continue Friday night. To read The Daily Iowan’s one-on-one interview with Daniels Jr., where he discussed that 2015 Minnesota game and his long run, as well as his thoughts on current Iowa running back Tyler Goodson, go to page eight or read the full interview at dailyiowan.com.

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ON THE LINE Matchups

Iowa vs.

Minnesota

No. 23 Northwestern vs. Purdue

Penn State vs.

Nebraska

No. 9 Miami vs.

Virginia Tech

TCU vs.

West Virginia

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IOWA I hope the gopher makes an appearance on the video board.

IOWA I gave up on Iowa too soon.

IOWA Friday night lights baby!

IOWA Gophers stay in their holes when it’s cold.

IOWA Iowa is undefeated on Friday nights in 2020.

IOWA Floyd stays.

IOWA P.J. Fleck reads his team books that my 1-year-old would find boring.

NORTHWESTERN Tough game to watch for Hawkeye fans.

NORTHWESTERN We’re living in a bizarre world where these two teams are a combined 5-0.

NORTHWESTERN My grandpa was a former Wildcat season ticket holder.

NORTHWESTERN It doesn’t have to be pretty.

NORTHWESTERN The most average top-25 team I’ve ever seen.

NORTHWESTERN The battle for West supremacy, because of course it is.

NORTHWESTERN Wisconsin might literally win the West by default.

NEBRASKA Why not.

PENN STATE I only expected one of these teams to be winless at this point in the season.

PENN STATE Nebraska is still not back.

PENN STATE Clifford the big red dawg.

PENN STATE When is Nebraska going to be good?

NEBRASKA Huskers get a home win in front of, well, they’ll call it a sellout crowd.

PENN STATE Surprisingly Winless vs.

Suspected Winless.

MIAMI It’s all about the U.

MIAMI The Hokies lost to a ranked Liberty team last week. Wild.

MIAMI Give me that turnover chain!

MIAMI The turnover chain is unmatched.

MIAMI Is the turnover chain still a thing?

MIAMI I like the Canes on the road.

MIAMI Too close to Thanksgiving for the turkeys.

WEST VIRGINIA Not a great slate of games this week...

TCU With respect to John Denver, I can’t pick the Mountaineers.

WEST VIRGINIA State motto in English: Mountaineers are always free.

WEST VIRGINIA Mountain mama.

WEST VIRGINIA Take me home...

WEST VIRGINIA A Big 12 snoozer.

WEST VIRGINIA Take me home, country roads.

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Speak up, kneel down Fighting for change goes far beyond sports, and the Hawkeyes are making sure to be advocates both on and off the gridiron.

BY CHRIS WERNER

christopher-werner@uiowa.edu The national anthem blared over the public address system at Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 31 before Iowa’s football game against Northwestern, as it always does prior to the opening kickoff. But the optics on the field were much different: For the first time, not every Hawkeye player was standing.

It was the first game of the season the team was on the field during the anthem as neither Iowa nor Purdue was on the turf for the tradition in Week 1 in West Lafayette because of game-day protocols. Hawkeye players would’ve knelt prior to that game if they had had the opportunity to do so.

In all, 29 Iowa players took a knee during the anthem before the first home game of the 2020 season. For those Hawkeye players, the gesture was a way to use their platform to advocate for racial equity in America.

“I know how African Americans are treated in the United States, so me taking a knee is to let everyone know what I stand for and what I believe in,” sophomore receiver Tyrone Tracy, who knelt for the anthem, said before the season. “I do think there are a lot of different things going on in the world that need some change. I think here in the organization we are going in the right direction.

We’ve taken steps to provide change.”

Players being allowed to choose if they want to kneel or stand during the anthem this season marks a shift of opinion on that topic for the Hawkeye football program leaders.

A change of heart In August of 2016, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick used his platform as a professional athlete and knelt during the playing of the anthem as a form of protest against racial injustice.

Kaepernick first sat on the bench during the anthem, then — after an open letter from former NFL player and Green Beret Nate Boyer, telling Kaepernick that it would be more respectful to the U.S. troops if he knelt — took a knee.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black

Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan Hawkeyes kneel and stand during the national anthem before the Iowa-Northwestern football game at Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 31. people and people of color,” Kaepernick told the media. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

Despite Kaepernick kneeling to protest police brutality based on advice he received from Boyer, the action still drew criticism, including from President Donald Trump, who claimed it was unpatriotic not to stand for the anthem.

Kaepernick began protesting about a month after Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police in Louisiana.

Kaepernick, and other Black players, protest the disproportionate killings of Black people — Black people are twice as likely as white people to be killed by police — and wealth gaps that haven’t budged since 1968.

While some sports teams and institutions around the nation allowed players to kneel for the anthem, the University of Iowa football program was not one of them.

In 2017, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said he supported his student-athletes participating in social justice activities, but not on the football field.

“Certainly, we encourage them to grow, and be curious and ask questions. To me,

that’s healthy. As long as you’re alive you should be doing that,” Ferentz said during one of his weekly press conferences at the time. “But this is the one time we put everything aside. We all dress alike, act alike, and we’re trying to do the same thing. Whatever they do on campus is great. As long as it’s not illegal or immoral, I’m all for it.”

This offseason brought about changes.

Following nationwide protests after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis in May, Ferentz changed his policy on the anthem for the first time in early June. Ferentz said whatever Iowa decided to do during the national anthem the players should all do the same thing.

“We want them to be uniform, whether it is their uniform, or the way they do things, the way they conduct themselves,” Ferentz said on June 3 during a video press conference. “To me, there’s a certain game-day protocol, if you will. In conjunction with that, I’ve always kind of felt like the sports arena is not a time to shine a light on an individual cause or an individual thing. No matter what the topic might be, that’s kind of been my approach.

“As we move forward right now, I think it’s important that we’re all together. But, whether it’s appropriate or not in a sports

venue, that’s a discussion to be had. And certainly when we come back, we’ll talk about that as a team as well. I guess if I were to frame it out, I guess my goal, or my hopes, as a coach, is whatever we decide to do, and if it’s pertaining to that particular thing, I would just like to see our team to be together.

Everybody’s taking a knee, or everybody’s at attention. Either way. The big thing is to be together, to me, on game day and present a uniform appearance as a football team.”

But then, news broke that hit closer to home for the Hawkeye community. Several coaches came under fire after former Iowa football players alleged racial disparities in their treatment of players. And floodgates opened with a tweet.

On June 5, former Hawkeye offensive lineman and current Chicago Bear James Daniels tweeted, “There are too many racial disparities in the Iowa football program. Black players have been treated unfairly for far too long.”

Daniels had previously commented on a tweet confirming that Ferentz wanted to take a uniform stance during the anthem saying “If the team collectively decides to kneel, this will bring about a cultural change for both Iowa football and the state of Iowa which I believe is long overdue!!!”

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Daniels’ June 5 tweet about racial discrimination within the program gained traction as former and current Hawkeyes agreed with Daniels’ claim by replying, retweeting, and liking his tweet.

After Daniels’ June 5 tweet, an independent review into the football program’s treatment of players was conducted by a University of Iowa-hired law firm stationed in Kansas City, Missouri, Husch Blackwell.

In its July 30 conclusion, the review found that the program’s rules “perpetuated racial or cultural biases and diminished the value of cultural diversity.”

Almost three months later on Oct. 20, after multiple meetings, some of them with his team’s leadership group—made up of 21 players selected before the season following coaching staff and player input —and some with the entire team about the topic of the national anthem, Ferentz announced that players would have the opportunity to stand or kneel during the anthem.

Hawkeye players were exposed to differing viewpoints in those meetings. In one meeting, Ferentz said he shared a letter from a veteran who felt strongly that no one should kneel during the anthem. In another, a former Navy SEAL told the group that he thought if a player wanted to kneel, they should stay true to their beliefs.

Ultimately, the team came to the conclusion that the players should be able to choose to stand or kneel during the anthem.

“I’m convinced right now that we’ll see a variety of stances taken by our team,” Ferentz said Oct. 20 during a video conference with the media. “But I can also tell you, based on what I heard in three separate meetings, everybody’s very respectful of each other. Nobody is judging each other or taking roll or any of that kind of stuff.

They’re being a good team. Acting like a team should.”

When standing or kneeling, Iowa players are given the choice to support their teammates by either holding hands or placing one hand on the shoulder of a kneeling teammate.

Prior to the Northwestern game, Ferentz stood during the anthem with his hand on the shoulder of running back Leshon Williams, who was kneeling.

Also taking a knee were Brenden Deasfernandes, Jestin Jacobs, Barrington Wade, Jay Higgins, Terry Roberts, Jack Johnson, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Calvin Lockett, Ivory Kelly-Martin, Alec Kritta, and Tracy, among others.

Dozens of Iowa players also knelt during the anthem again prior to Iowa’s Week 3 game against Michigan State.

Along with demonstrating during the playing of the anthem, Iowa players are wearing words on the lower pad on the back of their helmets, like “equality” and “together,” but the players are not required to have one of those words on their helmets.

Merriweather first to announce kneeling Kaevon Merriweather, a sophomore defensive back, was the first player to publicly declare he would be taking a knee during the anthem, doing so well before the team announced its most recent policy.

Merriweather tweeted on June 8, “Do not watch our games on TV. Do not come up to us when you want photos. Do not ask us to give your kids autographs. Don’t come to us expecting us to do for you when you can’t support the Black athletes on this team and the decisions we make as a team.

“I would rather play in front of 1,000 fans who care about us as people outside of football and what we are standing for, than 70,000 fans who only care about us when we are in uniform and on the field entertaining them.”

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Players and attendees stand and kneel during the national anthem at Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 7.

The coaches are allowing us, as players and as men, to have a little bit stronger voice and voice our opinions — whether it be with the anthem, within the team, or anything. That’s one of the biggest changes we’ve made in our program.

— Kaevon Merriweather, Hawkeye defensive back

I would rather play in front of 1,000 fans who care about us as people outside of football and what we are standing for, than 70,000 fans who only care about us when we are in uniform and on the field.

— Merriweather on Twitter Merriweather said that his decision to kneel was bigger than football and was a powerful way to show that he believes a lot has to change in the U.S. Along with his demonstration on the field, the Belleville, Michigan, native attended multiple social justice protests on the UI campus before the football season began.

“What’s going on in the country, there’s just a lot going on that’s wrong,” Merriweather said in an interview with The Daily Iowan. “We need to show a way in which we stand that we’re together as one. That we’re not OK with what’s going on and that we want change. As an athlete, just being able to demonstrate and show my voice, that’s a strong message to everyone in the world.

Not just me personally, but to every athlete that stands for change.”

Other college athletes nationwide have contributed to significant change away from the playing field.

Multiple football players from Mississippi State University and other universities in that state, played pivotal roles in the state changing its flag — removing the emblem of the confederate flag — this summer. One player, Mississippi State running back Kylin Hill even threatened to quit playing if the state flag’s Confederate imagery remained unchanged.

“Either change the flag, or I won’t be representing this state anymore & I mean that ..

I’m tired,” Hill tweeted.

Merriweather decided to include the message in his tweet to remind fans that the players are more than just members of the football team.

“Our fans need to understand that we’re more than athletes,” Merriweather said.

“Outside of Saturdays, when the uniform comes off, we’re brothers, we’re sons, we’re cousins, we’re uncles. We’re just another kid on the street, we’re no longer Iowa football.

When we’re in our regular clothes, we’re just another Black kid walking around. Outside of these walls, we need to be supported on and off the field.”

Although Merriweather received some vitriolic comments from people on social

media, he said he expected that when he posted the original tweet. His teammates, however, supported his decision.

“Everybody [in the Iowa football program] supported me,” Merriweather said. “Everybody was proud that I was actually able to speak up and stand on something. All the comments from my teammates and coaches were very positive.”

Merriweather said he likes Iowa’s stance on giving players more say in matters within the team or on other issues outside of football.

“The coaches are allowing us, as players and as men, to have a little bit stronger voice and voice our opinions,” he said. “Whether it be with the anthem, within the team, or anything. That’s one of the biggest changes we’ve made in our program.”

First anthem game shows growth After the Northwestern game, junior defensive tackle Daviyon Nixon said that the opportunity for players to choose what to do ruing the anthem is a sign of growth in the Iowa football program.

“That’s just our coaches and our coaching staff and everybody at Iowa believing in our team and believing that everybody’s life is equal,” Nixon said. “Having the right to go out there and express ourselves without any fallback or any punishment, that just shows the growth within our state, within our team, and within this family that we call a team.”

Ferentz stressed the players’ ability to choose what they wanted to do during the anthem while respecting everybody’s personal decisions.

“What we all decided was we’re going to respect each other’s opinions on the topic and, to me, that is doing things as a team,” Ferentz said. “The dialogue was outstanding. Everybody said what they felt but everybody also agreed that we’re going to have respect for each other’s opinions.

That’s something our country is badly in need of right now. A little bit more listening and a little bit more civil conversation.”

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ONE ON ONE WITH

offseason, training camp. I don’t think I could possibly explain it well enough to do it justice.

LESHUN DANIELS JR. DI Pregame editor Robert Read spoke with the former Hawkeye running back about his memorable performance against Minnesota in 2015 and other topics from his Iowa career.

Daniels Jr.: As much as people try to say that we’re taking it one game at a time and this and that, which a lot of us were — the coaches were doing their best to make sure that we’re focused on every game — but how often are we 10-0 with the opportunity to finish the season undefeated, Big Ten Championship Game, [College Football] Playoff, all that. It’s just human nature for guys to go, ‘Man, we’ve really got a chance to go undefeated. We have a chance to go to the playoff and compete for a national championship.’

When someone tells you that it never comes into their heads, they’re lying. It definitely did creep in our heads. Because you want to meet that goal. You want to be the best, especially when you actually have the opportunity to make it to that point.

The coaches definitely did an excellent job of making sure we were focusing on every week.

ROBERT READ robert-read@uiowa.edu

DI: A big thing from that Minnesota game was you guys wore those alternate uniforms. Were you a fan of those? They were pretty popular among the fans.

Daniels Jr.: Yeah, I love all black uniforms. They just look so clean. Especially whenever a team wears them in a night game, I think it just helps the atmosphere.

Coming out in new uniforms was awesome. Because obviously Iowa is one of those traditional schools where you kind of just wear the same thing every single week. It was nice to get a different set of uniforms out there. Because you know what they say — look good, feel good, play good. That’s kind of how I felt. I was a huge fan of those uniforms for sure.

DI: You scored three touchdowns in that game against Minnesota, but I think the one everyone remembers was the last one with a couple minutes left. What do you remember from that play?

Daniels Jr.: We were drawing up a quick play and coach Brian [Ferentz] comes in. We were running a certain type of stretch zone for basically the entire game. We decided to switch it up a little bit, the fullback going to block the middle linebacker. I remember going into the play, obviously coaches were saying, ‘Make sure you stay in bounds’ and this and that. ‘Hold onto the ball.’ All that good

DI: You mentioned that the victory pushed the team to 10-0. You always hear about taking things one game at a time, but how much was being undefeated and keeping that streak alive, going for 12-0, how much was that on your guy’s mind going through that regular season?

Alyssa Hitchcock/The Daily Iowan Iowa running back LeShun Daniels, Jr. rushes the ball during the Rose Bowl Game in the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California on Jan. 1, 2016. stuff that everybody hears in a four-minute offense. I just remember that the hole opened up and there was so much green grass before I even had to make a move on someone. I just felt like, ‘I have to do something with this ball.’ Low and behold, I make a guy miss, and they had everyone up [at the line of scrimmage] trying to stop the run. So you make one guy miss, you’re off to the races. That’s how our offense was kind of dictated when it came to the run game. It’s one of those things where if you can get to the second level, and you can make a guy miss, you could have a big play. That’s something that was always preached to us, especially by our running backs coach, coach [Chris] White. I just wanted to make a play. I was having a pretty good game up to that point. I just wanted to make a play to help the team. Looking back at it, yeah, I probably should have went down at some point when I got past the safety. But in my head I was just thinking, ‘Don’t get caught. Don’t get caught.’ I didn’t think about going down or anything like that.

It was definitely an awesome play for me.

We were having success on the ground all day. To have the opportunity to go out there and make a big play for the team, and to do it on such a memorable night, is pretty crazy.

DI: After the final second ticked off the clock, Kinnick got pretty loud. What was the celebration like in the locker room after the game?

Daniels Jr.: Oh it was great. The stadium was just going crazy. The stadium was electric really the entire night. Literally after I scored, they were doing the I-O-W-A chant for what felt like 10 minutes. That energy was there throughout the entire game. At the conclusion of the game, everyone was feeling awesome. [Iowa was] 10-0 for the first time in school history.

We get in the locker room and everybody’s jacked, we were going crazy. Rivalry games are big. We definitely love beating Minnesota. Whenever you get a chance to beat Minnesota and win a trophy game, the locker room after the game is always a great atmosphere. All the guys are bouncing around. And obviously the fans kind of felt the same way. It was definitely one of those things where I could tell you as much as possible what went down after winning a big game like that and hitting those milestones, but you really had to experience it firsthand. There’s no way to explain beating a rival team, winning a trophy, and celebrating with your guys in the locker room. You’ve spent years working up to this point. Grinding in the

DI: What was it like playing in the Iowa-Minnesota rivalry?

Daniels Jr.: We obviously know that they don’t like us. They have their whole ‘We hate Iowa’ nonsense. [The coaches] always played that ‘Who hates Iowa, we hate Iowa’ every single year when we were in the locker room that entire game week. We know it’s a big game. We know the guys who were on staff that played at Iowa, they always let you understand how big of a game it is. It’s hard to describe the feeling you get playing in those games.

There’s not too much you can really compare it to. If you played sports in high school, there’s some big rivalries, crosstown rivalries. But when you’ve got two Big Ten programs that have been doing it for a long time, that have a long history with each other, you have a trophy on the line, you have two states that don’t like each other — it’s hard to explain that feeling that you get. If you’re a competitor, it’s something that you love. Those butterflies that you get, I wouldn’t call them nervous butterflies, but more like you’re so excited having a challenge against a team that you don’t really like. It’s truly a good feeling if you’re a competitor.

Go to dailyiowan.com to read the full interview.

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SCOUTING REPORT

MINNESOTA ISAAC GOFFIN isaac-goffin@uiowa.edu

Iowa’s defense will have its work cut out for it when it faces Minnesota’s rushing game.

In all three of Minnesota’s (1-2) games this season, the team’s rushing game has flourished, thanks in large part to running back Mohamed Ibrahim.

Last week at Illinois, Ibrahim accounted for four touchdowns and gained 224 yards on 30 rushing attempts. His longest run of the day was 54 yards in Minnesota’s 41-14 victory.

It was Ibrahim’s second week in a row where he had four scores, as he had that along with 207 yards on 41 attempts at Maryland two weeks ago. On the season, Ibrahim has scored 10 touchdowns and accumulated 571 yards.

At 5-foot-10, 210 pounds, Ibrahim is small enough to get through some tight spaces and strong enough to push pileShivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan ups, which he did against Illinois for a Minnesota quarterback Tanner Morgan looks to pass during a football game between Iowa and Minnesota at Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 16, 2019. score. Ibrahim’s stature is similar to that of Iowa running back Tyler Goodson, who Last season against Iowa, Bateman had ler Nubin leads Minnesota in that categoweighs 10 pounds less than Ibrahim. Both to be concerned about him, especially running backs can break through the line because of one of his receivers – Rashod six catches for 98 yards, with his longest ry with 21.

Bateman. reception being 46 yards. The 302 yards Though Minnesota does have a nice quickly for big yardage.

Though Bateman — who originally Bateman has accounts for about half of rushing game, its rush defense is the opIbrahim did have one negative in his posite of that, as it has given up 239.3 yards game at Illinois — he fumbled the ball. opted out of the season to prepare for the Minnesota’s receiving yards.

On the defensive side, Minnesota’s pass per game on the ground. This should bode With the Iowa defense feisty for turn- NFL draft before returning — has one TD in his 2020 campaign.

He is averagdefense has allowed over 240 yards per well for Goodson and company. overs, it’s possible that this could happen ing over 100 receiving yards per game. game and has intercepted the ball one time.

Opposing rushers have averaged 7.3 Friday night. yards per attempt and have scored nine As a team, Minnesota is averaging 238.7 Bateman scored his lone touchdown at It has allowed over 15 yards per reception.

Illinois, where he also had a season-high Defensive end Boye Mafe has made his TDs against Minnesota this season. yards per game.

139 receiving yards on 10 receptions. presence known with quarterbacks, as Looking holistically at the Minnesota Tanner Morgan is back as the starting Bateman was named to the All-Big he has had 3.5 sacks and 12 total tackles defense, it has done well on third down, quarterback for the Gophers, and he has thrown for 602 yards, three touchdowns, Ten first team and AP All-American third so far. Mafe sacked the quarterback twice allowing opponents a first down about 35 and two interceptions. Though this team last season, and is one of the best last week at Illinois, picked up half a sack percent of the time. Iowa has converted a doesn’t match his stellar performances receivers in Minnesota history, having set at Maryland, and one against Michigan. third of its third downs. On 15 trips to the from last season, it is enough for Iowa the freshman and sophomore receiving He also had two tackles for loss last week. red zone, the opposing offense has scored yards records for the program.

Speaking of tackles, defensive back Ty- 11 times against the Gophers.

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MATCHUPS I’m gonna pretend that I’m an expert on Big Ten football.

AUSTIN HANSON austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

Iowa @ Minnesota Friday | 6 p.m. | FS1

Both of these teams should be well-rested after blowout victories last week. But college football on Friday night is unpredictable.

No. 10 Indiana @ Michigan State 11 a.m. | ABC

It’s time to respect the Hoosiers. Head coach Tom Allen has his Indiana team up and running this year, and it poses a legit threat to Ohio State in the East.

Penn State @ Nebraska 11 a.m. | FS1

Penn State is struggling this season, but Nebraska has been terrible for years. The Nittany Lions should make the valley a little happier this

Illinois @ Rutgers 1 p.m. | BTN

I usually don’t believe in moral victories, but Rutgers may have gotten one last week against Ohio State by losing by less than 30 points.

D E L E NC

No. 3 Ohio State @ Maryland 2:30 p.m. | BTN

CA

Maryland has played good football the past two weeks. The Terrapins won’t win this game, but they might keep it closer than people think.

No. 23 Northwestern @ Purdue 5 p.m. | BTN

I didn’t think this matchup would feature two undefeated teams when the Big Ten season started. Yet, the Wildcats are ranked and the Boilermakers are 2-0.

No. 13 Wisconsin @ Michigan 6:30 p.m. | ABC

If Badger QB Graham Mertz can play, Wisconsin will win this game. If fourth-stringer Danny Vanden Boom is under center, the Badgers might be in for a long game.

POWER RANKINGS 1) Ohio State

Buckeye fans must be shaking in their boots after only beating Rutgers by 22.

2) Wisconsin

Only played one game this season, but still the uncontested second-best team in the Big Ten.

3) Indiana

Seriously, it’s time to respect the Hoosiers.

4) Purdue

David Bell is still good.

5) Northwestern

Is Northwestern actually decent now?

6) Maryland

The Big Ten is weird this year, but who would have guessed that Maryland would be 2-1?

7) Iowa

Are the Hawkeyes officially back?

8) Rutgers

Any team that loses by less than 30 to Ohio State needs to be respected.

9) Penn State This Valley isn’t so happy.

10) Minnesota

The boat needs to go in for repairs.

11) Michigan State

Don’t get too excited Hawkeye fans, the Spar tans aren’t good.

12) Michigan

Has anybody checked in on Jim Harbaugh?

13) Nebraska

The Huskers still aren’t winners.

14) Illinois

Remember when Illinois was turning its foot ball program around?

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