Iowa football leaning on leaders to finish season strong
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The Iowa Hawkeyes have lost a few games that they feel have slipped away. But that is football. One day it loves you, the next it rips your heart out. It takes mental toughness to handle the adversity and be able to bounce back.
The Hawkeyes, at 6-4, still have a chance to write the final chapter of the 2025 team with an exclamation point. With two more regular-season games to go and a bowl game, the Hawkeyes can get to nine wins, and head coach Kirk Ferentz discussed how they will lean on leadership to do just that.
"I mean, we try to encourage a couple of things during the course of the season certainly, and one is just let's worry about this week this week and tell the guys we'll do all the math afterwards. We have plenty of people helping us on that anyway.
"But at the end of the year we'll figure out where we're at on all that stuff. But the biggest thing is just about getting ready each week and competing, as cliche and mundane as that is. But that's easier said than done.
"And these guys have done it 10 weeks. They've competed as hard as you can out there. And that's all you can ask, and to me it would be such a waste of 10 good weeks to take our foot off the gas at this point. That's really, to me, what it all gets down to.
"And you're playing because every week is a challenge in itself, and you're trying to go out and do the best you possibly can regardless of who's there Saturday. And that's really what the game is about.
"So just being around our team, you can never predict anything. Like you never know 100 percent what's going to happen, but after 10 weeks, I'm confident these guys are going to do it again. They're going to show up and line up and compete again Saturday, knowing that we have a team that's going to do the same thing we're playing.
"First of all, just to survive in the Big Ten, you better be doing that. But, more importantly, it's about what we're trying to — how do we want to feel about this team when the season is over," Ferentz said about the leadership on this team.
It won't be easy for Iowa, but the games are winnable for them. First up is a Senior Day home game inside Kinnick Stadium against the Michigan State Spartans. Following that, Iowa makes a Black Friday road trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, to take on their rival, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, in an always-tight battle.
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