The Daily Iowan Pregame - 09.24.2021

PREGAME The Daily Iowan

Saturday, September 25 Iowa vs. Colorado State Kinnick Stadium

KEEPING THE FAITH Caleb Shudak’s long road to becoming Iowa’s starting kicker.

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Iowa Starters

MARQUEE MATCHUP

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Zach VanValkenburg

Dane Belton Jack Campbell Seth Benson Matt Hankins

Kaevon Merriweather

Jack Koerner Riley Moss Tory Taylor

Colorado State Starters

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa center Tyler Linderbaum surverys the field during Iowa’s season-opening 34-6 victory over Indiana on Sept. 4. Iowa’s offensive line faces a Colorado State defensive front that accounted for six sacks last weekend.

STAFF

Colorado State hails from the Mountain West Conference, a part of the Group of Five. While the Rams may not look threatening to the No. 5 Hawkeyes, they took down Toledo — a team that came within three points of beating No. 12 Notre Dame this season — in an upset, 22-6, in Week 3. And the Rams’ victory came behind their high-powered defense. The Rams held Toledo to just 22 rushing yards in the entire 60 minutes of play.

Hawkeye running back Tyler Goodson had a career game in Week 2, rushing for 153 yards and three touchdowns.

Colorado State’s defensive unit also produced six sacks against Toledo, and held the Rockets to just 284 yards yards of total offense. The Rams defense will have to get past the Hawkeye rotation of offensive linemen — an-

chored by junior center Tyler Linderbaum. Linderbaum has started every game with junior left tackle Mason Richman, junior left guard Cody Ince, sophomore right guard Justin Britt, and sophomore right tackle Nick DeJong next to him. But around Linderbaum, true freshman Connor Colby, redshirt freshman Tyler Elsbury, and junior Jack Plumb rotate in and out of the game. Senior guard Kyler Schott — after missing the first two games of the year with a preseason injury — also entered back into the two-deeps in Week 3, playing limited snaps. As a unit, the Hawkeye offensive line has allowed six sacks of quarterback Spencer Petras throughout three games.

Read The Daily Iowan’s full scouting report on dailyiowan.com. - Chloe Peterson, Assistant Sports Editor.

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Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa kicker Caleb Shudak jogs onto the field for a field goal attempt against Kent State on Sept. 18. After five years of waiting his turn, the sixth-year senior is finally Iowa’s top kicker.

An ‘off the grid’ work ethic

Iowa senior kicker Caleb Shudak is finally getting his shot as a starter after five seasons of waiting on the sidelines for his opportunity.

Chris Werner Sports Reporter

Caleb Shudak is used to waiting his turn.

So, it was almost fitting when Indiana head coach Tom Allen decided to call all three of his timeouts right before Shudak was set to attempt his first field goal as the Hawkeyes’ No. 1 kicker in Iowa’s season-opener at

Kinnick Stadium.

Shudak was lined up for a 41-yard attempt that would be the final play after the first half and potentially give Iowa a 31-3 advantage after two quarters of action.

It seemed both teams were ready to head to the locker rooms to prepare for the second half. Allen had not used a single one of his first-half

timeouts, however, and he was determined to use every last one of them before the play clock hit zero. Allen was trying to ice Shudak, even though his team was down by four possessions.

Iowa fans booed after every timeout, growing more restless with each blow of the referee’s whistle, but Shudak remained calm.

Patience is nothing new for the sixth-year kicker from Council Bluffs, Iowa.

When he arrived on campus as a walk-on in 2016, Shudak couldn’t have forecast the long journey that took him from redshirting his freshman year to a starting role over half a decade later — a journey that saw him crumble in pain, fight

through rehab, sit behind an All-American, enter the NCAA transfer portal before eventually choosing to stay at Iowa, earn a scholarship, and then finally hit the No. 1 spot on the depth chart.

But Shudak didn’t have to sit behind anyone as a prep star in western Iowa. Instead, he stood on the field, playing nearly every snap.

High school hero At Lewis Central High School, Shudak was as close to “that guy” as someone can get. Everybody in Council Bluffs knew the Shudak name.

Caleb’s father, Jeff Shudak, had been a standout kicker at Iowa State following an illustrious career at St. Al-

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bert High School in Council Bluffs. Jeff’s brothers Steve, Danny, Mike, and Marty were also accomplished football players at St. Albert.

“The Shudak family in general, I mean that’s a huge family,” said Jim Duggan, Caleb’s high school coach at Lewis Central, who played with some of Caleb’s uncles at St. Albert in the 1970s and 80s. “If you grew up in Council Bluffs, you knew who the Shudaks were, and you knew [who] Jeff was because he went on to Iowa State and had a great career as a kicker.”

Caleb had enrolled at St. Albert for his freshman year of high school but then transferred to Lewis Central in time for the football season. There, he didn’t just excel as a kicker, but as an all-state athlete in multiple sports.

Caleb played baseball and tennis along with football — Duggan said Caleb “did everything.”

Caleb also did everything on the football field at Lewis Central, playing wide receiver and running back on offense, linebacker and strong safety on defense, as well as handling the kicking duties.

Duggan recalled a story that perfectly illustrated Caleb’s multiple roles under the Friday night lights.

“I remember one game,” Duggan said. “He literally had come off the field, playing a full series of defense, went straight to offense, he caught a pass, a long pass on a third-down — we were still short. If my memory serves me right, it was right before half. And I think it was against Sioux City East or somebody, and we lined him up and he kicked a 53 or 56-yard field goal. Just amazing what he did.”

But with his dad’s past with special teams, having been named an All-BigEight kicker at Iowa State, place kicking was the way forward for Caleb.

The dedication Caleb put toward his kicking and his father’s expertise created the perfect storm to develop Caleb’s leg into something special.

Duggan knew not to mess with it.

“His work ethic was just off the grid,” Duggan said. “You know, I mean he and his dad, they would be out there kicking and doing kicking drills and we didn’t even, as coaches, we just left him alone because we didn’t want to screw him up. I mean, his dad, they were just unconscious as far as the work ethic. Incredibly dedicated and religious to becoming a better kicker, and so you just knew that he couldn’t help but become a great one.”

Caleb’s journey to becoming a great one got off to a slow start. As a freshman, he was one of the four kickers vying for the starting spot at Iowa in 2016. He was passed over in favor of Keith Duncan,

Grace Smith/The Daily Iowan Iowa kicker Caleb Shudak attempts a field goal during a football game between Iowa and Kent State at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 18.

another freshman walkon.

The 2016 season was a record year as far as the number of specialists on the Hawkeyes’ roster, with eight spots taken up by either punters, kickers, or long snappers. Hawkeye head coach Kirk Ferentz told the media he was going to do whatever he had to do to get the best guys on the field. And Duncan performed the best in practice sessions. With Duncan in the spotlight, Shudak redshirted.

Then, after his initial redshirt season ended in June 2017, Caleb was preparing for his second fall camp. But he was hit with another setback.

The injury bug Caleb’s right leg gave out during a routine training session.

On an otherwise ordinary day during the offseason, Duncan and Shudak were practicing together. Then, Shudak’s 2017 season ended abruptly. Duncan says he heard a snap during a kicking drill.

“I was actually there about a couple inches away from him when he got his injury,” Duncan said. “We were doing a little offseason workout.

I had my back turned and I heard a snap. And I turned my head and Caleb was on the ground, kind of in shock. And I was like, ‘What just happened?’

And he looked at coach and said, ‘Hey, I think I just tore my Achilles,’ like in a very monotone voice.”

But the injury set the

stage for Caleb to put his dedication on display once again and fight through rehab to get back in the field.

He would have to dig deeper than ever before, rebuilding from the ground up.

A torn Achilles, for even the best athletes in the world, means the end of their season, a major surgical procedure, and many months of rebuilding their strength through a rehab process that starts, quite literally, from the beginning.

“Relearning how to kick after I got hurt was really mentally taxing for me,” Caleb said. “I had to learn how to walk. It was really frustrating seeing I’d made so much improvement since I got here and all of a sudden, I’m starting from ground zero again.’

Right after the Achilles injury, Jeff said that his wife, Trudi Shudak, stayed

by Caleb’s bedside in the hospital, and then for a week while he recovered from the surgery in a hotel.

Caleb slowly came to terms with the injury, and eventually put a positive spin on the experience.

Caleb’s thinking shifted from “I have to start over,” to “I get to start fresh.”

“It took a while to change that mindset to, ‘I’m starting from ground zero, I can be even better than I was,’” Caleb said. “‘I’m starting with previous knowledge; I just have to change some minor things.’”

Caleb relied on his strong religious faith in times of struggle through

many months of rehabilitation. Religion has been a part of Caleb’s life since he was little. “[Religion] was definitely key,” Caleb said.

“Having people around me that, you know, were also keeping their faith to instill that, you know, God was there, God was gonna help me, you know, everything happens for a reason. You know, God gives his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers.”

Caleb was strong enough to suit up and kick in warmups of the 2017 Pinstripe Bowl, roughly six months after his injury.

But just because he had recovered from the torn Achilles didn’t mean he had earned a starting spot. He would have to wait even longer for that.

Kicking competition Former Iowa kicker, Miguel Recinos, kept the Hawkeyes’ starting job in 2018 after beating out Duncan in 2017. After Recinos graduated, the door opened for a Shudak-Duncan fall-camp clash in 2019.

Duncan hadn’t had it easy up until that point either. After starting as a true freshman and converting 38-of-39 PATs and 9-of-11 field goals, including the game-winning kick at Kinnick Stadium when the Hawkeyes upset No. 3 Michigan under the lights, Duncan had to sit behind Recinos for two seasons as well.

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Continued from Page 5 competition, Duncan won the job. Another twist in the road for the battle-tested Shudak.

Caleb said he took the camp loss hard. Although Shudak handled the kickoff duties in 2019, with a stronger leg than Duncan, he felt he should be doing more.

So, with an eye toward his football future, the walk-on entered the transfer portal.

“He put his name out there and obviously he wanted to do everything that year,” Jeff said. ”He felt he won the competition in camp that fall.”

And Caleb received a scholarship offer from Wake Forest while in the portal. The coaches at Iowa decided they couldn’t let him get away, offering him

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a scholarship soon after.

The scholarship ultimately kept Caleb at Iowa, even though he had not attempted a single field goal in a game in four seasons.

The scholarship was the ultimate sign that the Hawkeyes wanted Caleb on their roster, and he took that to heart.

Staying true to form, Caleb went to work again, turning yet another bump in the road into motivation.

“I think [losing the job to Duncan] is what made me the best kicker I could be,” Caleb said. “That really kind of opened my eyes realizing, you know, I can get better, there’s still room for improvement.”

Jeff said that Caleb’s internal drive kept him determined to overcome the multiple obstacles in his Hawkeye career.

“He’s somebody with a lot of drive,” Jeff said of his son. “I’ve never had to tell him, ‘Go practice,’ or, ‘Go do this, he always did it on his own.’ I never did feel like he was going to quit. [Caleb] did tell me that one of the coaches, when he came back, said, ‘We thought you were just going to quit.’

He’s like, ‘No, I want to keep doing this.’”

During the next two seasons, Duncan and Caleb pushed each other in practice as great friends, but also intense competitors.

Caleb’s skill in practice kept Duncan from ever getting comfortable as the starter, despite the fact Duncan was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award — given to the nation’s best kicker — in 2019 and was named second-team all-Big Ten in 2020.

Even though Duncan was racking up honors, Caleb was always right on his tail. Ferentz often said that he considered Duncan and Shudak to both be capable of being starters, and Duncan only slightly ended up winning the No. 1 job.

Duncan said there were times he thought Shudak could take his job as the starter.

“I think we both understood that once you become complacent, things start to go downhill,” Duncan said. “So, the goal for both of us was to not become complacent. If he had been the starter, I have no doubt in my mind that he would have come in and succeeded. That just goes back to the work ethic. I really, really respect Caleb for that.

Caleb is an ultimate competitor. He has a champi-

onship-level mindset and wants to win.”

Although he never did take Duncan’s job, Caleb continued kickoff duties while Duncan played his final season for the Hawkeyes in 2020, continuing to hone his craft on the practice field.

And then, when Duncan left the Hawkeye football program after last season, the stage was set for Shudak.

The first boot Shudak was, at long last, the starting kicker when the Hawkeyes opened this season against Indiana.

Shudak handled the kickoffs and extra points without a hitch. Then it was finally time for the first field goal at the end of the half.

Allen made Shudak wait

a little longer to kick his first ball in the starting role, but that didn’t stop Shudak from hitting the perfect kick.

“By the time that rep came, I was comfortable and confident in the play, the wind, everything,” Shudak said. “It hit me in the locker room [at halftime] like, ‘Oh, man, that was finally the rep.’ I’ve worked, you know, I’ve probably hit 20-some thousand balls in my time here.

“I tore my Achilles. I’ve, you know, hurt my hamstring, lost the job to Keith,” he added. “It hit me in the locker room, where I was like, ‘That just paid off’, you know, ‘That was the rep I’ve been working for. “‘I spent six years trying to do what I just did.’” christopher-werner@uiowa.edu

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OLORADO STATE RAMS

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I’m just ready for more conference matchups.

ROBERT READ

robert-read@uiowa.edu

VILLANOVA @ No. 6 PENN STATE

ILLINOIS @ PURDUE

Saturday | 11 a.m.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

IOWA

This still feels weird.

Penn state

Oct. 9 can’t come soon enough.

ohio state

This also still feels weird.

WISCONSIN

We will find out a lot about the Badgers this week.

MICHIGAN

The Wolverines were underrated heading into the season, a refreshing change.

MICHIGAN STATE Are the Spartans good again?

MINNESOTA

The Gophers are a second-tier West team this season.

8 9

Maryland

The Maryland-Illinois game hurt my eyes.

Rutgers

Line: TBD | O/U: TBD Well, at least this is an in-state rivalry? Still not much of a reason to watch.

No. 12 NOTRE DAME @ No. 18 WISCONSIN Saturday | 11 a.m.

10 indiana

The Hoosiers are a good football team with a tough schedule.

purdue

Hope you’re OK, David Bell.

12 NORTHWESTERN The Iowa-Northwestern matchup is going to be tough ... to watch.

13 14

Line: PUR -11.0 | O/U: 53 The Boilermakers will have their drum on the field again and all will be right with the world.

KENT STATE @ MARYLAND Saturday | 2:30 p.m.

The Scarlet Knights are 3-0!

Line: WISC -6.5 | O/U: 47

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Saturday | 2:30 p.m.

Illinois

Might not get another conference win this season.

The Fighting Irish have been in close games with inferior teams.

Time to see how they fare against a ranked B1G foe.

BOWLING GREEN @ MINNESOTA Saturday | 11 a.m.

Line: MINN -31.0 | O/U: 51 I’ll be interested to see how the Gophers perform once they start playing conference teams again.

Kept it close with Oklahoma somehow. Good for you.

NEBRASKA @ No. 20 MICHIGAN STATE Saturday | 6 p.m.

Line: MSU -5.0 | O/U: 52 A second-consecutive close loss to a ranked team could be considered growth for the Huskers.

OHIO @ NORTHWESTERN

AKRON @ No. 10 OHIO STATE

Saturday | 11 a.m.

Saturday | 6:30 p.m.

Line: NU -14.5 | O/U: 48

Line: OSU -49.0 | O/U: 68

Watch this game at your own risk.

RUTGERS @ No. 19 MICHIGAN Saturday | 2:30 p.m.

Imagine what the line would be if the Buckeyes were as dominant as they usually are.

INDIANA @ WESTERN KENTUCKY Saturday | 7 p.m.

Line: MICH -20.0 | O/U: 50

An undefeated Big Ten East team is about to go down (hint, it’s Rutgers).

NEBRASKA

Line: MD -14.5 | O/U: 69

Calling it now: The Golden Flashes are pulling off the upset this week. You heard it here first.

Line: IU -9.0 | O/U: 64 The Hoosiers are better than their record indicates. Didn’t help that they were overrated coming into the season.

COLORADO STATE @ No. 5 IOWA Saturday | 2:30 p.m. | Line: IOWA -23.5 | O/U: 45 One more game until the Hawkeyes hit the Big Ten stretch.

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WITH IOWA CORNERBACK RILEY MOSS Daily Iowan Sports Editor Austin Hanson chatted with Moss at an Iowa football media availability session last week.

Austin Hanson Sports Editor

Moss: That’s a really good question. You know, if I’m thinking like, I’m gonna go on a date and take a girl, I’m gonna go to probably Pullman. Pullman’s really good. I also like Monica’s too. Monica’s is pretty good.

The Daily Iowan: Do you have a guilty pleasure TV show? Like something you’re afraid to tell your friends that you watch a lot?

Riley Moss: Not really, to be honest with you. I’d say my favorite show right now is “Outer Banks,” but like all my boys watch that. So, it’s not really a guilty pleasure.

DI: Do you have a favorite Iowa football memory?

DI: Do you have a favorite movie then?

Moss: “Wolf of Wall Street,” easily. Insane movie.

DI: Why do you love that movie?

Moss: Leonardo DiCaprio is crazy in it. And it’s crazy that most of that stuff actually happened. It’s a wild story.

DI: Everyone has their favorite song that gets them pumped up before a game, but do you have a song you like to play when you’re sad?

Do you have a “Sad songs to cry to in the shower playlist?”

Moss: It’s an Olivia Rodrigo song. It’s so good though.

“Driver’s License,” that’s what it’s called. That’s my sad song. I got a Jeep, so I’ll take the top down and go on a little sunset cruise by myself and not tell anyone and listen to that song.

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa defensive back Riley Moss tackles Kent State wide receiver Keshunn Abram during a football game between Iowa and Kent State at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 18. The Hawkeyes defeated the Golden Flashes 30-7.

DI: What is the difference between Nebraska corn and Iowa corn?

Moss: I don’t know, to be honest with you. It makes us stronger and bigger, I guess faster. To be honest with you, I was gonna say, you know, it makes us win games. I don’t know if I can say that. So, I don’t know if you should put that on there.

DI: Do you have a go-to joke that you tell?

Moss: Not really. My roommate Nico [Ragaini] is always hungry. So, he’ll say, you know, “I’m hungry.” And I’ll say, “I’m Riley.” It’s those little dad jokes. I’m a big fan of dad jokes.

DI: You grew up in Ankeny.

What’s it like now to play for Iowa, your home-state team?

Moss: It’s really cool because it was my dream since I was a little kid. You know, me and my dad had season tickets forever. You know, I always asked him, “You think I could play at Iowa?” He said, “You know, you work hard and you do what you’re supposed to do, I think you can.” I didn’t believe him at the time. Sometimes, I didn’t believe him in high school.

I kept working hard and I ended up here. Then, I kept

working hard here. So, the dream really became a reality. That’s why I’ve really kept setting goals and trying to reach those goals.

DI: If you had to choose between the two, black or gold?

Moss: Probably black. I like black.

DI: What’s your favorite restaurant here in Iowa City?

Moss: Marvin McNutt catch against Michigan State [in 2009]. That was crazy.

Then, I just met [McNutt] in [fall] camp for the first time.

I was fanboying over him. He was probably thinking I was a weirdo. The Adrian Clayborn blocked punt [against Penn State in 2009]. Josh Jackson’s one-handed pick against Ohio State [in 2017].

That was crazy. I was there.

That was nuts. There’s so many that I could name.

DI: You said you’re a Casey’s pizza guy. Is your favorite pizza there the breakfast pizza?

Moss: To be honest with you, I love their pepperoni pizza. It’s unreal. I also like their sausage breakfast pizza. It’s fire.

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

Read the full interview at dailyiowan.com.

austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

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Iowa prepped for matchup with McBride Colorado State tight end Trey McBride has already hauled in 33 passes for 339 yards and a touchdown this season.

Jerod Ringwald /The Daily Iowan Iowa linebacker Jestin Jacobs makes a tackle during a football game between Iowa and Kent State at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 18. Jacobs could be in line to cover Colorado State tight end Trey McBride on Saturday.

Austin Hanson Sports Editor The best tight end to grace the gridiron in Iowa City Saturday might not be on the Hawkeye football team’s roster. That title likely belongs to Colorado State’s Trey McBride.

Some NFL Draft experts thought McBride, a senior, would leave Fort Collins, Colorado, at the end of the 2020 season and go pro.

The 6-foot-4, 260-pound Coloradan corralled 22 passes for 330 yards and four touchdowns in a sea-

son that was shortened to just four games because of COVID-19 last year.

In his last full 12-game season in 2019, McBride caught 45 passes for 560 yards and four touchdowns. Through three games in 2021, McBride has produced 339 yards and a touchdown on 33 catches.

Assistant Scouting Director for Sports Illustrated Jack Borowsky wrote Sept. 14 that McBride has enough talent to be a topfive tight end in the NFL

someday.

In August, ESPN NFL Draft analyst Todd McShay included McBride on his list of the top 50 college football prospects to watch this season. McBride was No. 27 on McShay’s list ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft.

McBride announced that he’d be passing on the 2021 NFL Draft to return to Colorado State on Dec. 30, 2020.

“Playing football for Colorado State has been an incredibly rewarding expe-

rience,” McBride tweeted.

“I believe in [head coach Steve Addazio] and his staff, and I also have goals that I have not accomplished yet here at CSU. “After much thought and prayer, I will be back for a final year to play with my brothers and lead this team to a championship,” McBride added. “I am thankful to all who have supported me, and I can’t wait to see you all in the stands cheering us on in 2021 for our best season yet.”

McBride and the Rams are currently 1-2 on the season. Colorado State has picked up a 22-6 win over Toledo and suffered 24-21 and 42-23 losses to Vanderbilt and South Dakota State, respectively.

Despite that, the Hawkeyes aren’t taking their matchup with McBride and the Rams this weekend lightly.

“Obviously, they have a great tight end,” Hawkeye linebacker Jestin Jacobs said. “Obviously, he’s been a problem for many teams this year. We just know we have to come physically ready to stop him.

“You just have to really look forward to the challenge,” Jacobs added. “That’s why you come play in the Big Ten. That’s why you come play in the big conferences. You look forward to the challenges, and we have another one this week. [I] just can’t wait to go against him.”

While the Hawkeyes may not have the best tight end in this Saturday’s game,

Black and Gold at times from 2012 to 2018.

The number of now-professional tight ends that have played at Iowa recently might help the Hawkeyes guard McBride this weekend.

“Yeah, I mean, our guys on the scout team don’t look like [McBride], I can tell you that,” Hawkeye head coach Kirk Ferentz said at a meeting with reporters Tuesday. “It’s just one of those deals. But at least we know what [a good tight end] looks like.

That’s for sure. And we’ve played against a lot of really good tight ends.”

Ferentz added that McBride is a terrific blocker that Colorado State likes to move throughout its various offensive formations. Ferentz said McBride “does everything well,” from route-running to pass-catching, and that the Rams are creative with where they line him up and how they get him the football every weekend.

But at least we know what [a good tight end] looks like. That’s for sure. And we’ve played against a lot of really good tight ends.

— Hawkeye head coach Kirk Ferentz they’ve become accustomed to great TE play on a weekly basis over the last few years with the likes of now-NFL pros George Kittle, T.J. Hockenson, and Noah Fant all donning the

Saturday’s Iowa-Colorado State game is scheduled to kick off at 2:30 p.m. The contest will air live on FS1.

austin-hanson@uiowa.edu

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ROBERT READ

PREGAME EDITOR (9-6)

IOWA

AUSTIN HANSON SPORTS EDITOR (12-3)

IOWA

VS.

It’s good be be back over .500.

I’m tired of these cupcake games already.

VS.

Best game at Soldier Field this season.

WISCONSIN

WISCONSIN

VS.

The Aggies will be undefeated before they lose to ‘Bama.

Can the Razorbacks be back if they were never relevant?

OKLAHOMA ST

OKLAHOMA ST

TEXAS A&M

VS.

Soon to be some of the premier Big 12 programs.

VS.

Coach O on the hot seat?

LSU

Cheese > gold.

ARKANSAS

The Cowboys really ain’t played nobody yet, but still.

LSU

Fact: There are bad SEC games.

CHLOE PETERSON

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR (6-9)

IOWA

This is the only one I’m confident about.

NOTRE DAME

#Revenge game for Jack Coan.

ARKANSAS

CHRIS WERNER

FOOTBALL REPORTER (8-7)

IOWA

Fade to black, no tagline needed.

WISCONSIN

Hey look, good teams at Soldier Field!

ARKANSAS

Austin said Arkansas is better and I somewhat trust him.

Jason probably picked Texas A&M and I need to make up some ground.

OKLAHOMA ST

KANSAS STATE

OSU is favored, but KSU is ranked? Whack.

MISSISSIPPI ST

You and me go picking in the dark.

The good Wildcats.

MISSISSIPPI ST

Dak is back. That means something, right?

DESTINEE COOK

DITV SPORTS DIRECTOR (8-7)

IOWA

I hope someone picked Colorado State just for fun.

WISCONSIN

Notre Dame is a fluke.

ARKANSAS

Arkansas is kinda on a hot streak.

KANSAS STATE

JOHN BOHNENKAMP

SPORTS WRITING COACH (11-4)

IOWA

Iowa 4-0 heading into Big Ten play would be big.

WISCONSIN

Just don’t think the Irish are that good.

ARKANSAS

PUBLISHER (13-2)

IOWA

Iowa has never lost to CSU. Granted, this is the first meeting.

WISCONSIN

Jack Coan always made the Badgers a winner.

TEXAS A&M

Good SEC West matchup that doesn’t involve Alabama.

Arkansas’ mascot likes grapes and corn. He’d get along with my son.

KANSAS STATE

OKLAHOMA ST

Don’t really care about this game.

An insignificant Big 12 matchup.

LSU

MISSISSIPPI ST

Go Tigahs.

JASON BRUMMOND

Ring the cowbells for this SEC West game.

This game airing on ESPN+ indicates why the Big 12 is in trouble.

LSU

Less cowbell.

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Kid Captain brings awareness to Chiari malformation Bentley Steven, Iowa’s fourth 2021 Kid Captain, has had two surgeries to relieve pain caused by the condition.

Kelsey Harrell Managing Digital Editor This week’s Kid Captain Bentley Steven is excited to be back in Iowa City for game day at Kinnick Stadium with his family. He attended his first game in 2019 — the same year his mom started nominating him for Kid Captain.

Bentley, from Gladbrook, Iowa, is a very active 9-yearold boy who loves playing sports, like soccer, basketball, football, wrestling, and motocross. Bentley’s dad, Michael Steven, would also describe him as a lover, very caring, and in tune with his emotions.

His parents said Bentley has grown and changed greatly since he first started getting headaches that caused him to fall to the ground in pain at age 2.

Ashley Steven, Bentley’s mom, said she remembers being at her mother’s house when it first happened. Bentley was on a slide, sliding into a kiddie pool, when he suddenly keeled over the side of the pool clutching his head.

After he started having more headache episodes that left him in intense pain, Ashley took Bentley to the emergency room.

“I was a new mom. I didn’t have any kids, I didn’t know,”

Jerod Ringwald/The Daily Iowan Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz signs a ball for Kid Captain Bentley Steven during “Kid’s Day at Kinnick” inside Kinnick Stadium on Aug. 14.

Ashley said. “But something in my gut was telling me something wasn’t right.”

Bentley’s pediatrician ordered an MRI and Bentley was diagnosed with Chiari malformation, a condition where the brain is too big for the skull and spinal fluid can’t drain properly, causing painful headaches.

After being diagnosed with Chiari, Bentley had

his first decompression surgery, Michael said. Bentley’s doctor removed part of the base of his skull to allow the spinal fluid to drain. He was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis not long after, but soon recovered.

Before the surgery, Bentley’s speech was behind, Michael said. He would say individual words here and there, but wouldn’t put

them together.

“He didn’t talk, and it’s like once he had that surgery, he never shut up,” Ashley said.

“He was actually able to talk and form sentences. It’s like he had it all in there, he just couldn’t get it out.”

Bentley started getting Chiari headaches again when he was 4, and had a second decompression surgery, Michael said. The bone removed

during the first surgery started growing back, so it had to be removed again.

“He’s started to open up and talk about it a little bit more,” Michael said. “He still doesn’t like people noticing his scar on the back of his head, but he’ll talk about Chiari more as he’s getting a little older now.”

Bentley still occasionally gets Chiari headaches, but

now he knows what to do to calm himself down and make the pain go away, Michael said.

The family used to go to the Conquer Chiari walk in Des Moines, but the event hasn’t been held for the past two years. Bentley was the youngest kid with Chiari at the walk, so people would flock to him, Ashley said. Adults with Chiari would talk to him with admiration for surviving with the same painful headaches they did, she added.

To make the game even more special for Bentley, Ashley’s cousin, a former Iowa basketball player from the 1980 Final Four team, and some of his friends will be coming to be at the game on Saturday to cheer on Bentley.

Ashley said she is excited for Bentley to get to experience walking onto the field and watching the Hawkeyes take on Colorado State on Saturday.

She also added that she wants to use it as an opportunity to raise awareness for Chiari.

“The symptoms for Chiari are not like you go in, you get tested for strep throat and you have strep throat,” Ashley said. “The signs of Chiari can vary from patient to patient.”

kelsey-harrell@uiowa.edu

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