Kirk Ferentz appreciates buzz, excitement of Iowa football hosting top-10 Oregon

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This week, the Iowa Hawkeyes have a game that many only dream about. This is what college football is all about. The Hawkeyes get the opportunity to host the Oregon Ducks inside Kinnick Stadium, with a chance to pull off the upset and send a seismic shockwave to the college football world.

With this game comes immeasurable excitement and buzz. The fans will be loud, and there will be an extra level of electricity coursing through the air.

Kirk Ferentz knows that the Iowa Hawkeyes will embrace the moment. He discussed the excitement for the chance to host a game of this magnitude.

"Yeah, it's really special and rare. That will never get old. At least I don't think it will. If it does, that's probably when it's time to pack it up.

"Any time you get a chance to go against a premier team, which these guys are, it's a great measuring stick. You realize a lot of things can go wrong. Coaches have a better ability of doing that than hopefully the players.

"When it's all said and done, yeah, it's great to have an opportunity to play. I coached at Maine, coached at Worcester Academy, and those are all special too, but this is really a great environment in Kinnick any time there's a marquee matchup, if you will, and we have had a few of them over the last couple of decades. It's always special.

"There's one thing for sure. I know Oregon is going to be ready, and I know they're good. I know our crowd is going to be ready, and the thing we have to focus on is making sure we're ready to go, because it's going to take every bit of our best performance to have a chance to win this game," Kirk Ferentz said about the buzz and excitement this game brings.

Iowa, which has always been an incredibly hostile place to play, will be looking to pull off its eighth top-10 win inside Kinnick Stadium since the turn of the century.

That chance comes at 2:30 p.m. CT on Saturday, November 8, from Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa, as the Iowa Hawkeyes host the Oregon Ducks.

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