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POWERto the The Daily Iowan PREGAME FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 IOWA VS. MINNESOTA TCF BANK STADIUM DOZENS OF IOWA FOOTBALL PLAYERS HAVE CHOSEN TO USE THEIR PLATFORM TO PROMOTE RACIAL JUSTICE. 2 - The Daily Iowan - PREGAME - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, November 13, 2020 Iowa Starters WR 12 Brandon Smith 6-2 215 SR. TE 84 Sam LaPorta 6-4 249 SO. LT 77 Alaric Jackson 6-6 315 SR. REMEMBER WHEN... LG 73 Cody Ince 6-4 285 SO. C 65 Tyler Linderbaum 6-3 289 SO RG 61 Cole Banwart 6-4 296 SR. RT 71 Mark Kallenberger 6-5 290 JR. WR 6 Ihmir Smith-Marsette 6-1 179 SR. QB 7 Spencer Petras 6-5 231 SO. RB 15 Tyler Goodson 5-10 200 SO. FB 38 Monte Pottebaum 6-1 244 SO. PK 3 Keith Duncan 5-10 178 SR. LE 57 Chauncey Golston 6-5 270 SR. DT 54 Daviyon Nixon 6-3 305 JR. DT 96 Jack Heflin 6-4 312 SR. RE 97 Zach VanValkenburg 6-4 270 SR. LEO 35 Barrington Wade 6-1 236 SR. MLB 44 Seth Benson 6-0 231 SO. WLB 49 Nick Niemann 6-4 233 SR. LC 8 Matt Hankins 6-0 180 SR. SS 26 Kaevon Merriweather 6-0 205 SO. FS 28 Jack Koerner 6-0 205 JR. RC 33 Riley Moss 6-1 191 JR. P 9 Tory Taylor 6-4 225 FR. Minnesota Starters LT 70 Sam Schlueter 6-6 325 SR. LG 68 Jackson Ruschmeyer 6-3 295 FR. C 60 John Michael Schmitz 6-4 320 JR. RG 64 Conner Olson 6-5 310 SR. RT 77 Blaise Andries 6-6 335 JR. Rachael Westergard/The Daily Iowan WR 0 Rashod Bateman 6-2 210 JR. Iowa running back LeShun Daniels, Jr. runs down field in Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 14, 2015. WR 7 Chris Autman-Bell 6-1 215 JR. WR 9 Daniel Jackson 6-0 200 FR. Heading into its 2015 matchup against Minnesota at the 40-35 victory and 10-0 start to the season. Daniels QB 2 Tanner Morgan 6-2 215 JR. Kinnick Stadium, the Iowa football team was 9-0 and Jr. finished with a career-high 195 yards rushing and RB 24 Mohamed Ibrahim 5-10 210 JR. seeking the first 10-0 start in program history. Iowa run- three touchdowns in the victory, which secured the Floyd TE 85 Bryce Witham 6-4 265 SR. ning back LeShun Daniels Jr. opened the game’s scoring of Rosedale for the Hawkeyes. Iowa quarterback C.J. PK 34 Brock Walker 5-10 210 SO. with a three-yard touchdown run with 4:23 remaining Beathard completed 18 of his 26 passes on the night for in the first quarter. Daniels scored again with 44 sec- 213 yards. Matt Vandeberg led Iowa in receiving, catch- DE 34 Boye Mafe 6-4 265 JR. onds remaining in the first half to give the Hawkeyes a ing six passes for 74 yards. Beathard also ran for 50 yards DT 99 DeAngelo Carter 6-2 310 FR. 24-14 lead at halftime. The Gophers kept the game com- and two touchdowns. Defensively, middle linebacker DT 18 Micah Dew-Treadway 6-4 315 SR. petitive throughout, and by the end of the third quarter Josey Jewell led the way for the Hawkeyes, compiling 13 DE 9 Esezi Otomewo 6-6 285 JR. the Hawkeyes only led by six points. With just over two tackles and a sack. Iowa’s victory over Minnesota in this LB 45 Cody Lindenberg 6-3 235 FR. minutes remaining in the game, Iowa led by five and had game started a five-game win streak for the Hawkeyes LB 55 Mario Sori-Marin 6-3 245 JR. the ball, looking to secure its victory. Daniels Jr. took a in the series, a streak Iowa will look to continue Friday DB 21 Justus Harris 5-10 195 SR. second-and-6 handoff, ran to the right on a zone play, night. To read The Daily Iowan’s one-on-one interview DB 16 Coney Durr 5-10 200 SR. made a defender miss, and sprinted into the end zone with Daniels Jr., where he discussed that 2015 Minnesota DB 23 Jordan Howden 6-0 210 JR. for his third touchdown of the game to put Iowa up 40- game and his long run, as well as his thoughts on current DB 27 Tyler Nubin 6-2 205 SO. 28. Minnesota did put together a quick scoring drive to Iowa running back Tyler Goodson, go to page eight or DB 25 Benjamin St-Juste 6-3 205 SR. bring it to within five points, but Iowa held on to secure read the full interview at dailyiowan.com. P 90 Matthew Stephenson 5-10 215 SR. Publisher: Design Editor: Business Manager: Jason Brummond Kate Doolittle Debra Plath Executive Editor: Sports Editors: Advertising Director/Circulation: Sarah Watson Austin Hanson, Asst. Isaac Goffin Juli Krause Pregame Editor: Visuals Editors: Production Manager: Robert Read Katie Goodale, Heidi Owen Managing Editor: Assts. Hannah Kinson, Ryan Adams Advertising Sales: Alexandra Skores TV Sports Director: Bev Mrstik Managing Digital Editor: Kade Overton Front design by Kate Doolittle Kelsey Harrell Copy Editors: Katie Ann McCarver, Elijah Helton Front photo by Shivansh Ahuja GOT QUESTIONS FOR THE PREGAME STAFF OR A STORY IDEA FOR A FUTURE ISSUE? STAFF| EMAIL US AT [email protected] The Daily Iowan - PREGAME - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, November 13, 2020 - 3 ON THE LINE Matchups Robert Read Austin Hanson Isaac Goffin Chris Werner Kade Overton John Bohnenkamp Jason Brummond PREGAME EDITOR (4-11) SPORTS EDITOR (9-6) ASST. SPORTS EDITOR (6-9) FOOTBALL REPORTER (9-6) DITV SPORTS DIRECTOR (5-10) SPORTS WRITING COACH (8-7) PUBLISHER (12-3) IOWA IOWA IOWA IOWA IOWA IOWA IOWA Iowa vs. I hope the gopher makes I gave up on Iowa too Friday night lights baby! Gophers stay in their Iowa is undefeated on Floyd stays. P.J. Fleck reads his team an appearance on the soon. holes when it’s cold. Friday nights in 2020. books that my 1-year-old Minnesota video board. would find boring. NORTHWESTERN NORTHWESTERN NORTHWESTERN NORTHWESTERN NORTHWESTERN NORTHWESTERN NORTHWESTERN No. 23 Northwestern Tough game to watch for We’re living in a bizarre My grandpa was a former It doesn’t have to be The most average top-25 The battle for West Wisconsin might literally Hawkeye fans. world where these two Wildcat season ticket pretty. team I’ve ever seen. supremacy, because of win the West by default. vs. Purdue teams are a combined holder. course it is. 5-0. NEBRASKA PENN STATE PENN STATE PENN STATE PENN STATE NEBRASKA PENN STATE Penn State vs. Why not. I only expected one of Nebraska is still not back. Clifford the big red dawg. When is Nebraska going Huskers get a home win in Surprisingly Winless vs. these teams to be winless to be good? front of, well, they’ll call it Suspected Winless. Nebraska at this point in the a sellout crowd. season. MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI No. 9 Miami vs. It’s all about the U. The Hokies lost to a Give me that turnover The turnover chain is Is the turnover chain still I like the Canes on the Too close to Thanksgiving ranked Liberty team last chain! unmatched. a thing? road. for the turkeys. Virginia Tech week. Wild. WEST VIRGINIA TCU WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA TCU vs. Not a great slate of With respect to John State motto in English: Mountain mama. Take me home... A Big 12 snoozer. Take me home, country games this week... Denver, I can’t pick the Mountaineers are always roads. West Virginia Mountaineers. free. 4 - The Daily Iowan - PREGAME - Iowa City, Iowa - Friday, November 13, 2020 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 [email protected] The national anthem blared over the pub- lic 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 be- cause of game-day protocols. Hawkeye play- ers 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 Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan gesture was a way to use their platform to ad- Hawkeyes kneel and stand during the national anthem before the Iowa-Northwestern football game at Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 31. vocate for racial equity in America. “I know how African Americans are treat- people and people of color,” Kaepernick told that’s healthy. As long as you’re alive you venue, that’s a discussion to be had. And cer- ed in the United States, so me taking a knee the media. “To me, this is bigger than foot- should be doing that,” Ferentz said during tainly when we come back, we’ll talk about is to let everyone know what I stand for and ball, and it would be selfish on my part to one of his weekly press conferences at the that as a team as well.