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PREGAME SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 IOWA VS. MICHIGAN STATE KINNICK STADIUM

IOWA’S STARTING QUARTERBACK HAS STRUGGLED THROUGH TWO GAMES, BUT HE’S USED TO OVERCOMING CHALLENGES.

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From The Daily Iowan archives; Bryan Kelsen/The Daily Iowan. In print Dec. 9, 1985.

The Iowa football team entered its Oct. 5, 1985 matchup with Michigan State having just ascended to the top spot in the Associated Press’ poll. The Hawkeyes were ranked as the top team in the country for the first time in over 20 years. The Spartans came close to upsetting the top-ranked Hawkeyes inside Kinnick Stadium. On third down at Michigan State’s two-yard line, with Iowa trailing by three, quarterback Chuck Long faked a handoff to running back Ronnie Harmon and kept the ball himself.

Long fooled the defense and after the fake, jogged into the end zone untouched for the go-ahead score with 27 seconds remaining in the game. Iowa won the game 3531. Along with the rushing touchdown, Long completed 30-of-39 passes for 380 yards and four scores. That Publisher: Jason Brummond Executive Editor: Sarah Watson Pregame Editor: Robert Read Managing Editor: Alexandra Skores Managing Digital Editor: Kelsey Harrell

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yardage total remains tied for the ninth-most in a single game in program history. The Hawkeyes finished the 1985 season 10-2, including an appearanec in the Rose Bowl. That season, Long, a senior, became the first player in NCAA history to pass for more than 10,000 career yards. He finished runner-up in the closest Heisman Trophy race in the award’s history that season. Long earned his third All-Big Ten honor in 1985. The signal caller was also named an All-American. Iowa has not been ranked No. 1 in the AP poll since the 1985 season. To read The Daily Iowan’s full one on one interview with Long, where he discusses the 1985 Iowa-Michigan State game and his game-winning run, as well as his thoughts on the team’s current starting QB Spencer Petras, go to page eight.

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Petras put to test early in

BY ISAAC GOFFIN

isaac-goffin@uiowa.edu The Iowa football team is 0-2 for the first time since 2000, but there’s confidence, despite the criticism he’s received, that firstyear starting quarterback Spencer Petras can lead the Hawkeyes through the adversity.

That’s because recovering from a slow start to the season wouldn’t be the first time Petras has had to overcome a setback in football.

In his freshman season of high school football, Petras was the third-string quarterback in his class and also was a defensive lineman. He broke his throwing arm in the second game of the season and was supposed to miss the rest of the season.

“Adversity really got him pumped up,” Petras’ mom, Sarah Petras, said. “And when you can’t have something, yet you want it bad, you try to figure out a way to get it. And he worked so hard, I mean he was like the number one guy running, giving the guys drinks on the sidelines. He always wore his dressed khakis on the sidelines and would give the guys some Gatorade and he had a cast on his arm. But then as soon as that cast was off, he had to play, and he got to play one game even though they said, ‘You know, it’s probably not a good idea — you haven’t been doing anything with that arm for six weeks.’”

After Iowa dropped its second game of the season to Northwestern, 21-20, at Kinnick Stadium, head coach Kirk Ferentz expressed hope for the future after Petras went 26-of-50 and threw three interceptions following an encouraging start to the game.

Petras found receiver Brandon Smith up high for a TD in the first quarter, but as the game went on, the redshirt sophomore lacked touch on his passes and was frequently inaccurate.

“The bottom line is Spencer is a two-game quarterback right now, so he’s a very young guy,” Ferentz said following the Northwestern game. “This was not a fun experience certainly, wasn’t a great experience for him in that second half, but he’ll grow from this because he’s so conscientious and he works well. He’ll be better for it, but boy, it’s hard in the process, we all know that. It’s just part of the game sometimes, so he’ll get back up on his feet, we’ll go back to work tomorrow and I’m confident he’ll be a better player moving forward, but yeah, that’s certainly something we always worry about.”

Something that is noted by those who know Petras is his leadership ability.

His mother said he got it from being around his father, Adam. But Adam Petras said his son is a natural-born leader.

Spencer Petras also agreed that leadership comes naturally to him. He is a member of the 2020 football leadership group.

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa quarterback Spencer Petras warms up on the sideline during a football game between Iowa and Michigan in Ann Arbor on Saturday, October 5, 2019. The Wolverines celebrated homecoming and defeated the Hawkeyes, 10-3.

Shivansh Ahuja/The Daily Iowan Iowa quarterback Spencer Petras makes a pass during a football game between Iowa and Middle Tennessee State at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 28, 2019.

“I think Spencer handled himself well,” “I feel comfortable around my teammates and I think it’s important for the Cronk said. “I think there’s a couple plays quarterback to be a leader and be able to set where we didn’t keep him clean enough the tone and make sure we have good tem- where it would have given him a little bit po and a good energy about us in practice,” more time probably, not going to say a TD or anything but definitely some big plays.

Petras said.

“But I think Spencer handled himself Ferentz has also noticed Petras’ leaderwell, obviousship abilities ly he wantand said he’s improved This was not a fun experience cer- ed to go out with every tainly, wasn’t a great experience for there and opportunity. him in that second half, but he’ll grow from throw a million TDs, but “He acts like you’d this because he’s so conscientious and he that’s not always realistic want a quar- works well.

— Hawkeye football coach, Kirk Ferentz and especially terback to for someone’s act,” Ferentz said. “But it’s all genuine. It’s not for show first start. The poise and his ability to lead or any of that kind of stuff. It’s just who he when it wasn’t going perfect I was personalis, and we’re just thrilled he’s on our football ly really impressed with.”

For the Bay Area native, it was a journey team.”

In Petras’ first game as a starter — a 24- to get to a Big Ten program. Petras decom20 loss at Purdue — he went 22-of-39 for 265 mitted from Oregon State before committing to Iowa late in the recruiting process in yards, while also running in for a score.

Following the performance, Petras said December, 2017.

Now, he has the most experience at quarhe was nervous to begin the game, but got into a rhythm before fiddling out of it. Pe- terback in the locker room and has plenty of tras’ first game as a starter ended with him talent around him on offense, including recompleting only five of his last 15 pass at- ceivers Ihmir Smith-Marsette and Brandon tempts and failing to lead the Hawkeyes to Smith, tight end Sam LaPorta, and running a game-winning drive in the final two min- back Tyler Goodson.

Spencer’s parents didn’t allow him to play utes.

Despite the tough start to the season, tackle football until the eighth grade, but he Iowa offensive lineman Coy Cronk was im- started playing sports at 5 years old, including baseball, basketball, and soccer as he pressed with Petras’ performance.

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starting tenure was raised in San Rafael, California.

“I can still remember the very first time I took Spencer to a sports camp when he was five years of age and I thought he would not want to get out of the car, he’d be a little timid,” Adam Petras said. “As soon as we pulled up to the field and saw kids playing with balls, I mean he just jumped right out of the car and he ran right away from me toward the kids. And I thought to myself, ‘Man, this kid really is going for it.’ He was born that way, very active in sports, and he just followed through and apparently he liked football more than anything else.”

On the playground in grade school, Spencer was already taking a leadership role because he was the quarterback. Starting in sixth grade, Spencer started to play flag football out of a league based in San Francisco. In eighth grade, he played Pop Warner tackle football.

When it came time to go to high school, Spencer chose Marin Catholic in Kentfield, California, because they had the best football program in his view. His dad, a retired diagnostic radiologist, told him to go for it.

But before Spencer’s freshman season, there was a hiccup, at least in his view. Instead of attending optional summer camp, his family went on a trip across Europe.

“He was like, ‘No, no I have to go to these camps, these football camps I got to go to these high football camps,’ and I said, ‘Well, I’m sorry but we’re going to Europe so we’re going to be gone for three weeks buddy,’” Sarah Petras recalled.

Spencer Petras did enjoy touring London, Paris, and Italy, his mom said, but he still brought along his football to practice, which he had to constantly deflate and inflate. He brought it along to Notre Dame, Venice, and Tuscany.

When Spencer returned to California, he didn’t know his team’s playbook and complained to his mom that his life was ruined.

But come sophomore year, Petras became the starting junior varsity quarterback, and was called up to varsity later in the season.

The next year, Petras started as varsity quarterback and was named first-team all-conference and team offensive MVP at the end of the season.

“He’s got great talent,” said Mazi Moayed, Petras’ varsity head coach. “His arm talent — it’s incredible.”

When Petras took over the starting job, he was following in the footsteps of current Los Angeles Rams starting quarterback Jared Goff, who was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft.

The first-year starting QB is prepared to lead Iowa through a tough start.

Megan Nagorzanski/The Daily Iowan

Iowa quarterback Spencer Petras passes the ball during a football game between Iowa and Middle Tennessee State University on Sept. 28, 2019.

Petras shattered Goff’s season yards and TD record at the school during his senior season, having 4,157 passing yards and 50 TDs. Petras broke Marin Catholic’s record in passing yards in a game (502), passing TDs in a game (5), and tied the single game completion percentage record (100 percent).

Petras was named conference player of the year. He also was a team captain during his senior season, along with fellow senior Peter Brown, who noted his influence and leadership both on and off the team.

“Very vocal,” said Brown, a wide receiver. “Kind of knew how to always motivate the guys. Very personable, well-liked guy around the locker room, around the team, around the school even, was a very good role model for the younger kids. And then even when he was getting recruited by all these big name schools — schools were coming by left and right to watch him and stuff — it never changed him. He was just

the same Spencer, just kept working hard, still being a great friend, great teammate.

So, it was really fun to watch him develop like that and play with him.”

Petras initially verbally committed to Oregon State, but then-head coach Gary Andersen resigned during the season. With the quarterback’s options now open, Iowa quarterbacks coach Ken O’Keefe became interested in Petras, and he visited the Petras’ house twice.

“He’s a great guy and we snuck in an official visit on a very short notice,” Adam Petras said. “And we liked everything that we saw. We met with Kirk Ferentz that night, had dinner with him also. Coach Ferentz is a great guy and we just felt very good and warm. Iowa has a tremendous history, both athletically at the college football level as well as you hear that people in the Midwest are really good people, nice and polite and true Americans and we felt good about the University of Iowa and that’s why he committed.”

Moayed said Iowa is a good fit for Petras because he likes to work hard and that Iowa is all about the grind. Adam Petras said his son calls Iowa home now, even when he is in California, and that he can see himself settling down in the state when he’s older.

Through two games, Petras is in a tough spot. The signal caller has struggled through two weeks, and some Hawkeye fans are already calling for a different player to take over under center. But Petras possesses the leadership abilities to lead Iowa through that. Petras has faced adversity before in his football career and continues to expect more out of himself. He won’t stop until he gets it.

“My hope for him is to put Iowa in the next tier and be playing in the college football playoffs and taking a crack at the national championship,” Moayed said. “That’s how a guy like Spencer thinks and those are the desires of his heart.”

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out of the running back.

DI: What do you remember about Coach Fry, both as a person and a coach?

CHUCK LONG

Long: He just made it fun. He was very creative, just a genius. You know, when he hit Iowa, he was way ahead of his time. I mean, he was way ahead of what was going on. Much like you see some of these great offenses you see it today. He was ahead of his time. You know, the Big Ten had the Michigan-Ohio State stranglehold every year. So I think for like 15 years, one of those two teams went to the Rose Bowl every year. Until Iowa. Until Hayden Fry. Hayden Fry made it all possible for everybody. And we went in ‘81 and went to the Rose Bowl. First team [other than] Ohio State or Michigan for about 15 years. And since then, I think every team but maybe a couple, two or three, have gone to the Rose Bowl so, he made it all possible for everybody, that you could do it. He was creative, he was fun. Had a great discipline about him so you worked hard at the same time. He made it so much fun because of his personality. He was a great person. He was a second father to me.

DI: What do you remember about that Michigan State game in ‘85 and then about that ‘85 season in general?

Long: We just became No. 1 in the nation right before that game and, you know, Michigan State had upset alert on their mind. We always had great battles with Michigan State, we knew it was going to be another great battle. And it ended up being that. And then just to win it on a bootleg at the end of the game was just one of those special memories. That was probably the single favorite play of mine.

And then, of course, the great team victory that year was Michigan came in No. 2, we were No. 1, that was the best team victory I’ve ever been a part of us.

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The Daily Iowan: It’s been a little over 35 years since the naked bootleg play [in 1985 against Michigan State] if you can believe it.

Is your memory of that play still crystal clear?

Chris Werner christopher-werner@uiowa.edu

Daily Iowan Football Reporter Chris Werner spoke to the former Hawkeye QB about his famous bootleg play and more from his Iowa career.

Chuck Long: Oh, absolutely. It’s one of those plays that — I’ll tell you what, we never practiced the play, we never knew that play was comin’. In the five years that I was there, we never practiced that play, never talked about it. Never in a training camp, never in a spring ball. It wasn’t even in the game plan that week. It was just a hunch that coach [Hayden] Fry had. You know, we call our last timeout, I get to the sideline thinking, you know, on the two-yard line we’re going to throw the ball, give it to Ronnie Harmon, or something like that. And [Fry] said, he goes, ‘Hey Charlie,’ he called me Charlie, he said ‘Charlie, we’re going to run the isolation play,’ we had an isolation play between the center

and guard on the left side, he said, ‘We’re going to call that play, go out and call that play,’ 47 pop out with a lead fullback and everything.

And he said ‘Don’t tell anybody but don’t hand the ball off, just keep it, go around the right side and score a touchdown.’ And I thought he was crazy, I said, ‘Coach, if I don’t get in the clock is gonna run out or they get the ball,’ one of the two, and he just said, ‘You know what,’ he goes ‘I just got a gut feeling about it.’ So I went in there and he said, ‘Just run the play, do what I tell you to do.’ So I went in there and called the 47 pop out. I didn’t tell anybody, I kept the ball, went around the right side and it was wide open. Couldn’t believe it.”

DI: Was that play the only time coach Fry ever told you to lie to your teammates?

Long: Yeah, that was it. He just said, ‘Don’t tell anybody,’ because he wanted a good fake

DI: Those two games, where do they rank in your favorite games you’ve ever played in?

Long: They’re at the top, I mean, the Michigan game is No. 1 on my list. And the bootleg game was easily top-five. Michigan versus Iowa was No. 1 on my list for sure.

DI: And then kind of coming back to present-day, I assume you’ve seen Petras’ first two starts this year. Do you have any takeaways from them that you’d like to share?

Long: I just think that you’d like to see them run the ball more to take some pressure off of him...

Go to dailyiowan.com to read the full interview.

The Daily Iowan - PREGAME - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, November 6, 2020 - 9

ON THE LINE Matchups

Robert Read

Austin Hanson

Isaac Goffin

Chris Werner

Kade Overton

PREGAME EDITOR (2-8)

SPORTS EDITOR (5-5)

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR (4-6)

FOOTBALL REPORTER (6-4)

DITV SPORTS DIRECTOR (2-8)

SPORTS WRITING COACH (5-5)

PUBLISHER (7-3)

IOWA I mean, maybe?

MICHIGAN STATE I’m going to regret this pick later, aren’t I?

MICHIGAN STATE Will this help Iowa?

IOWA Third time’s the charm, right?

IOWA Iowa being 0-3 isn’t possible.

IOWA Can the Hawkeyes snap out of their funk?

IOWA Fool me three times...

I’m an idiot.

MICHIGAN Win or go home, Jim Harbaugh.

INDIANA The Hoosiers will be better at football than they are at basketball this year.

INDIANA My great uncle went to Indiana.

MICHIGAN This ain’t Hoosiers.

INDIANA Are they really ranked No. 13???

INDIANA I believe in the Hoosiers.

INDIANA Exhibit #463 on why 2020 is weird.

No. 8 Florida vs.

No. 5 Georgia

GEORGIA Imagine how much better this team would be if it still had Justin Fields.

FLORIDA The Gators will pick up a win fighting out of the blue corner this week.

GEORGIA No fighting allowed.

GEORGIA Hey look, mom, I made it to the Flordia-Georgia line.

FLORDIA It’s always Tebow Time.

GEORGIA Always a great rivalry.

FLORIDA This week has been all about Florida.

No. 1 Clemson vs.

No. 4 Notre Dame

CLEMSON Notre Dame winning the ACC in football would be very 2020.

NOTRE DAME Without Trevor Lawrence, Clemson is an average team.

CLEMSON Death Valley is coming to South Bend.

NOTRE DAME I mean, Clemson almost lost to Boston College, that’s not even a university.

CLEMSON Who needs Trevor Lawrence when you have the second best QB in the country.

NOTRE DAME Irish are at home, Clemson is missing its star.

NOTRE DAME I triple-checked to make sure Trevor Lawrence isn’t playing.

No. 9 BYU vs.

No. 21 Boise State

BYU Just throwing it out there... gold turf in Kinnick.

BYU Who would ever play college football on a Friday?

BYU Went to Provo this summer and it is beautiful.

BYU Boise isn’t a state. Even I know that.

BOISE STATE No way they lose on a blue field.

BOISE STATE The blue turf is always dangerous.

BYU BYU enters CFP conversation on the blue turf.

Michigan State vs. Iowa

No. 23 Michigan vs.

No. 13 Indiana

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MATCHUPS I’m writing this like I have any idea what’s going to happen this week.

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Michigan State @ Iowa 11 a.m. | ESPN

An intriguing homecoming matchup for Spartan QB Rocky Lombardi.

Iowa needs this one to prevent the season from becoming an even bigger disaster.

No. 23 Michigan @ No. 13 Indiana 11 a.m. | FS1

Didn’t see Michigan losing to MSU coming. Then again, I didn’t expect the Hoosiers being ranked in the top-15.

Nebraska @ Northwestern 11 a.m. | BTN

POWER RANKINGS 1) Ohio State

At least this is normal.

2) Wisconsin

Would be cool to see the Badgers play again sometime soon.

3) Indiana

“You’re probably wondering how I got here...”

4) Northwestern

Once trailed Iowa 17-0.

5) Purdue

Relatively tame 9-122-1 performance from David Bell last week.

6) Michigan

Seriously, Michigan?

7) Penn State

Best 0-2 team in the country.

Interested to see how Nebraska looks against a team that isn’t Ohio State.

Northwestern moving to 3-0 would be a big advantage in the Big Ten West race. 8) Michigan State

D E L E C N

Purdue @ No. 10 Wisconsin 2:30 p.m. | ABC

Wisconsin might be the only real threat to OSU in the conference, but that’s only if it has a QB. Let’s see if the Badgers secondary has any luck against David Bell (and maybe Rondale Moore?).

CA

Maryland @ Penn State 2:30 p.m. | BTN

Penn State starting 0-3 would be something, but I don’t think it’s likely.

Minnesota vs. Illinois 2:30 p.m. | BTN

Well, at least one of these teams is guaranteed a victory this week. Minnesota is clearly not what it was last season, and Illinois is, well, Illinois.

Rutgers @ No. 3 Ohio State 6:30 p.m. | BTN

It’s been a pretty good start to the season for the Scarlet Knights, so maybe they keep it to within 50.

Lost to Rutgers, but beat Michigan. Yeah, that sounds about right.

9) Rutgers No longer a total embarassment.

10) Maryland

Will tanking for Taulia be a thing?

11) Nebraska

Avoided playing Wisconsin, which seems like a win.

12) Iowa

Oh, what could have been.

13) Minnesota

Anyone else see that missed extra point?

Also, the Gophers could use a defense.

14) Illinois

The Illini have a firm grasp on this spot.

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