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By The NumbersTaking a look at how the Hawkeyes stack up statistically against Wisconsin.

Around the Big TenOur weekly power rankings, plus some players to watch and our game of the week pick.

What did Iowa players have to say?

RosterFull team rosters for both the Hawkeyes and the Badgers. Bonus: an pretty sweet full spread poster!

Ron Coluzzi, Iowa’s starting punter, was a transfer from Central Michigan. Now he’s starring this season.

Kirk Ferentz loves comparisons and he isn’t afraid to reach back a little.

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Iowa linebackers Anthony Hitchens and Christian Kirksey and defensive back Tanner Miller tackle Wiscon-sin running back James White in Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 2, 2013. Hitchens, Kirksey, and Miller combined

for 22 tackles, but Wisconsin defeated Iowa, 28-9. (The Daily Iowan/Tessa Hursh)

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s a graduate student, Iowa punter Ron Coluzzi is one of the elder statesmen

on the team.His maturity is obvious when speak-

ing to him, as is his determination and a deep desire to prove people wrong. It’s something that started during his four years at Central Michigan and continues now at Iowa.

Coluzzi was Central Michigan’s No. 1 place-kicker in 2013 and as a redshirt freshman, was its No. 1 punter in 2014 and 2015.

He was pretty solid, too.Last season, he punted 59 times

for a 39.3 average, with a long of 61 yards and 10 punts of 50 yards or longer. He also placed 20 punts in-side the 20-yard line and its oppo-nents had 23 fair catches.

Coluzzi averaged 60.5 yards on 64 kickoffs, with 21 touchbacks. His high-light games came when he averaged 52 yards on four punts and hit five for a 44.4-yard average against Syracuse.

But Coluzzi’s real moment — or at least his biggest lowlight — came against Purdue in 2014.

If one was to search on Google, “Ron Coluzzi hit,” a video will pop up. Colu-zzi sent a punt down field and jogged a little too far down the field in cov-erage. He was running away from a blocker who was three times his size.

The ball carrier then came out of no-where and trucked the punter.

“I was on Cloud Nine,” Coluzzi said. “I had family in the stands, my girl-friend, friends, and I was just happy. I hit a great punt, but that’s just part of the game. You have to be on your toes and ready to go, and I wasn’t on that play. It was embarrassing.”

That moment was one of the hard points in Coluzzi’s life. That hit made it to ESPN Not Top 10 and blew up on social media.

It was a lesson not only for him on the football field, but a life les-son as well. He learned to laugh at himself and started using it in his everyday life.

Coluzzi, a marketing and logistics management major, had an internship with Coyote Logistics in Chicago, in which he sold freight out of a broker-age. He would send the clip of his hit

to some of his clients to get them to laugh and get the ball rolling.

“If you can learn to laugh at your-self, you can use that in certain situ-ations,” Coluzzi said. “I think you can grow. You just have to laugh, move on, and it worked.”

But when he went down he got back up. Literally.

Before graduating from Central Mich-igan, Coluzzi knew he wanted to contin-ue punting and move on with his career.

He had long watched Hawkeye football games and envisioned him-self in Black and Gold. When the an-nouncers of a game he was watching during the 2015 season said Iowa kicker Marshall Koehn and punter Dillon Kidd were seniors and that they would graduate next year, ev-erything clicked in his head.

“I just had a big dream of playing in the Big Ten,” Coluzzi said. “It’s just a wonderful opportunity. Iowa has great fans. I just wanted to be at a place where I felt like I was happy and need-ed. That’s why I wanted to transfer.

“It’s a dream come true playing in the Big Ten.”

His dream came true, and he en-tered the Hawkeye program as a graduate transfer. After his process of transferring, more haters, and doubters came along the way.

Some of Coluzzi’s old teammates, some family members, and close friends didn’t think he could compete on the Big Ten level or be a force for Iowa.

He then went back to watching videos on YouTube of players getting knocked down and getting back up to remind him of his own experience.

“People really didn’t respect my decision,” Coluzzi said. “But it’s just what I wanted to do, and I did it. I wanted to compete at a higher level and be the best athlete I can be. It was just one of those things where I had to overcome adversity.”

Before the season began, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz introduced Coluzzi to former Iowa punter Jason Baker.

Over the summer, the two worked closely on many different skills in special teams. Even though Coluzzi had plenty of experience as a gradu-ate transfer, he still was able to pick up many lessons from Baker.

“He’s been a lot of fun,” Baker said. “He’s real hungry to improve. A lot of guys this late in their college career aren’t. A lot of times they feel like they’ve got what they’ve got. If you don’t have to commit a guy to work, that’s obviously a big part of it, too.”

Coluzzi arrived in Iowa City in June

as a walk-on; he is now again a schol-arship player with a starting position.

Through his determination and willingness to overcome many obsta-cles and barriers, he did exactly what he wanted to do.

Coluzzi kicks into happiness

Iowa punter Ron Coluzzi’s punt attempt is almost blocked by the Rutgers defense at High Point Solution Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, on Sept. 24. The Hawkeyes defeated the Knights, 14-7. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)

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Kirk Ferentz has a good memory.For whatever reason, he’s

chosen in the past couple weeks to flex his mental muscle memory, speaking about the ’90s, and Mitch King getting a holding call against Penn State to force a third-and-long in 2003.

He has spoken about Barry Alva-rez picking him up at the airport when he interviewed at Iowa in the 1981 and longtime Hawkeye direc-tor of football security Ron Stewart

escorting him through a Holiday Inn kitchen in Des Moines during his first I-Club event in 1999.

Ferentz also likes to make comparisons. This week, he compared Akrum

Wadley to ex-Iowa running back Ron-nie Harmon and how both of them could have been good cornerbacks at Io-wa had they dedicated themselves to it.

“[Wadley] actually probably could be pretty good out there if that’s what he wanted to do and really bought into it,” Ferentz said. “Proba-bly say the same thing about Ronnie Harmon, not to equate them as the

same kind of backs, although they’re both pretty talented.”

Ferentz compared pros and cons of either taking the ball first or defer-ring if his team wins the opening coin toss, he compared Wisconsin coach-es that have come after Alvarez, the mindset a player has to have whether they’re playing in Kinnick or Butte, Montana, and many other things.

But the most interesting compar-ison Ferentz made on Tuesday was about the Iowa-Wisconsin game and how it reminds him of the games be-tween the Pittsburgh Steelers and

Baltimore Ravens.(Ferentz is an AFC North guy, after

all, having coached with the Browns from 1993-98, something he also brought up on Tuesday.)

“Outsiders might describe it as ugly football,” Ferentz said of the Io-wa-Wisconsin rivalry. “But it’s kind of like, the visual I’ve got right now is like the last couple years when Pitts-burgh and Baltimore play; it’s usual-ly a pretty tough, physical game and comes down to a possession.”

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Football crashes down memory laneIowa head coach Kirk Ferentz eyes the Hawkeyes during a time-out in the Iowa-North Dakota State game at Kinnick on Sept. 17. North Dakota State upset the Hawkeyes in the final seconds of the game with a 37-yard field goal, 23-21. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)


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For some players, it may be hard adjusting to the lifestyle of a new college program and college campus, but that came easy to Coluzzi.

He adjusted quickly.“From the first time we met him

last winter, he has just been a really mature, heads-up guy,” Ferentz said. “It’s really been fun to watch him. He’s been doing a real-ly good job, and I think the extra benefit for us has been that he’s a more mature guy being a college graduate already.

“We, I think, picked up a really good punter.”

Iowa is in good hands with Coluzzi this season. In football, one always hears about how imperative a quar-terback, receiver, or running back may be; often, special teams get overlooked.

The Hawkeyes pride themselves

on special teams, and it’s a big part of success for any team on the col-lege level. Ferentz is a huge believer in field position and having a sol-id punter who can pin an opposing team deep in its own territory.

Likewise, having a player who can rack up touchbacks is extremely use-ful as well. It prevents other teams from being able to return kicks and also helps reduce injuries. All little things that can have a huge effect on winning or losing a game.

“A punt-er who can consistent-ly locate his punts with solid hang time is a huge b e n e f i t , ” the popular H a w k e y e

Gamefilm said. “When you line out there 1 on 1 with the defender, he doesn’t know where the ball is go-ing, but if you trust your punter, you know where you need to go.”

Coming into the season, there was a lot of uncertainty in the position. But to have the level of performance the team has now is a luxury for the Hawkeyes.

The Hawkeyes have a punter they

can trust whose demeanor and pres-ence lights up a room. Coluzzi’s on-ly 22 years old, but when he opens his mouth, he sounds like a poised 44-year-old.

Thus far this season he’s getting touchbacks on almost 80 percent of his kickoffs. And Coluzzi has only

had three returns among 38 punts.He has critics raving and looks to

simply be another in a long line of solid special-team players.

“I just want to do the best for me,” Coluzzi said. “The doubters don’t matter. If I can continue to do that this season, I’ll be happy with that.”


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Iowa defensive back Desmond King celebrates with Iowa punter Ron Coluzzi during the Iowa-Miami (Ohio) game at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 3. The Hawkeyes defeated the RedHawks, 45-21. (The Daily Iowan/Anthony Vazquez)

It was ugly last year in Madison, when the Hawkeyes benefitted from four Wisconsin turnovers including a fumble at Iowa’s 1-yard line en route to a hard-fought, physical, 10-6 win.

The Hawkeyes and Badgers play a lot like the other. That comparison could be made.

The comparison between North Dakota State and Wisconsin could definitely be made. Both schools use players from the upper Mid-west. Both teams try to fuse a lot of jet-sweep action with a power run-ning game.

“Every game’s been a fist fight,” senior defensive tackle Jaleel John-son said. “Starting with North Da-kota State, even before that, every game we’ve had thus far has been a fist fight. Every team we’ve played so far has just been a dogfight.”

The Bison and Badgers are similar in scheme and style, but they are different when it comes to talent and size.

Iowa has not seen the likes of Wisconsin yet this year — not from North Dakota State, or Northwest-ern, or Minnesota.

The Badgers are the most tal-ented and most physical team the Hawkeyes will have played so far this year, and physicality is not something Iowa has dealt well with.

“It’s power football. We’ve got to be ready for it. This week we’ve been focused on doing some power stuff,” junior linebacker Josey Jewell said. “We’ve got to be ready in the many aspects of the game.”

With wins the past two weeks, Io-wa has jumped back into the discus-sion for the Big Ten West title.

Now, Wisconsin comes to town to offer Iowa its biggest test of the year.

For that, Ferentz had to turn back the clocks again.

“You look back the last six years, the level they’ve played at in the conference, it’s awfully impressive,” he said. “… They’ve had a good pro-gram, a strong program, and have done an excellent job, and the com-mon denominator seems to be that their players are good.”

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I just had a big dream of playing in the Big Ten. It’s just a

wonderful opportunity.— Ron Coluzzi, punter

Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz runs off the field with his team after warming up before the game against Maryland at Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 31, 2015. The Hawkeyes defeated the Terrapins to stay undefeated, 31-15. (The Daily Iowan/File Photo)


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By JORDAN HANSEN | [email protected]

How can Iowa beat Wisconsin?That’s the million-dollar question this

week as the Hawkeyes host the Badgers in a critical Big Ten West showdown.

The winner will pretty much be in sole-position of second place in the divi-sion and sets up a critical game against Nebraska for whoever wins.

Let’s take a look at how the Hawkeyes stack up against one of their oldest rivals.

Wisconsin rushing offense: 174 yards per game (8th in the Big Ten)

First, this number is skewed, mostly because that’s what happens when a team plays Michigan and Ohio State, owners of arguably the best two defenses in the conference.

Honestly, it’s not a stretch to take that a bit further and say nation.

The Badgers managed just 74 yards on the ground against the Wolverines, though they did rumble for 234 against Ohio State. The catalyst, and most im-

portant player for Wisconsin, is run-ning backing Corey Clement.

Injured for a good portion of last sea-son, the back had 164 yards on 23 car-ries against the Buckeyes and will be asked to carry the load against Iowa. He’s healthy and ready to rumble.

Wisconsin has prided itself on its running game since the dawn of time, and it’s no different this sea-son. The Hawkeyes have struggled to stop opposing running backs, and the winner of this matchup will very likely decide the game.

Alex Hornibrook’s statline: 54-96, 680 yards, 5 touchdowns, 6 picks

Hornibrook took over the start-ing QB job from Bart Houston four games into the season and hasn’t looked back.

He’s a lefty, which changes things a little (mostly because he’ll roll out dif-ferently) and has done a fairly good job of moving his offense this season. Just a redshirt freshman, he was thrust in-

to the role, and outside of the picks, he has looked like a real quarterback.

That’s dangerous and something the Badgers haven’t always had be-hind center (sorry, Joel Stave). Over-all, the Iowa secondary has done a pretty good job of limiting quar-terbacks not named Garbage Time David Blough, and Desmond King should be licking his chops.

Hornibrook will need to limit the bad throws and not let himself get rattled. He has the advantage of a good running game, however, which will make him dangerous on play-ac-tion passes.

Iowa cannot afford to overlook him.

Wisconsin linebacker T.J. Watt: 5.5 sacks, 8 tackles for loss, 5 QB hurries

The Hawkeye training staff better have an ice bath for starting quar-terback C.J. Beathard and, honestly, probably the rest of the offense as well.

This game always brings out the “toughness” clichés, but seriously, it’s

going to be a game in which these two teams will try to beat each other into the ground.

It doesn’t take long to see why, ei-ther. The Wisconsin linebackers are good, which understates things. They have a great sense on where the ball is, don’t miss a lot of tackles, and are very good at reading plays.

Iowa also runs a fairly predictable rushing offense, so a lot of this game is going to come down to who hits harder. Big Ten football at its finest.

However, if the Badger linebackers can make life miserable for Beathard (and with three offensive starters po-tentially out, this looks it could very well be the case), this might end up be-ing a very long day for the Iowa offense.

The Hawkeyes will need to figure out a way to slow them down consis-tently. Establishing the running game early would help as would getting the ball out of Beathard’s hands quickly.

He’s been better at just that over the last few games, and this will pro-vide a significant test.

Hawks face big battle The Iowa offensive line and the Wisconsin defensive line go at each other in Camp Randall Stadium on Oct. 3, 2015. The Hawkeyes defeated the Badgers, 10-6. (The Daily Iowan/Margaret Kispert)


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AROUND THE BIG TEN POWER RANKINGS

OFFENSIVE IMPACTName: Austin Carr, Northwestern Position: Running backYear: Sophomore

Carr leads the Big Ten in receptions (43), yards (595), and touchdowns (8). He was vital to the team in both of its most recent wins over Michigan State and Iowa. He had 130 and 73 yards, respectively, and caught 5 touchdown passes over the course of the two games.

DEFENSIVE IMPACTName: T.J. Watt, WisconsinPosition: LinebackerYear: Junior

There have only been two games this season in which Watt did not have at least one sack this season, yet the junior has not been in the forefront of anyone’s mind. He had a big game against Michigan with 11 tackles — 8 solo — and a sack. I’m expecting the game at Iowa to be a breakout one for Watt.

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8) Maryland (4-2, 1-2): If the Terps beat Michigan State this week-end, I’ll finally consider them a real part of the Big Ten.

9) Indiana (3-3, 2-1): Just as it is for Northwestern, the game Saturday is vital for Indiana. Don’t ask me why, but I’m picking Indiana for this one.

10) Minnesota (4-2, 1-2): The Gophers will eke out bowl eligibility in the next three weeks because of their schedule is ridiculously easy coming up, but will go on a three-game losing streak to end their regular season.

11) Michigan State (2-4, 0-3): What happened to you, Michigan State? Less than a year ago, you beat Iowa in the Big Ten Championship and were part of the College Football Playoffs. Now, here you are, on a four-game losing streak with losses to Indiana and Northwestern. Shame, shame.

12) Purdue (3-3, 1-2): New coach, new Purdue?

13) Illinois (2-4, 1-2): The way it’s going, Illinois might have at least one more win on the schedule against Michigan State.

14) Rutgers (3-3, 1-2): I predict Rutgers going 0-9 in Big Ten play this season.

1) Ohio State (6-0, 3-0): Is anyone really going to argue with me on this one?

2) Michigan (6-0, 3-0): How many points do you think the Wolverines will score this weekend?

3) Wisconsin (4-2, 1-2): Don’t blame this one on my bias. Let’s look at the facts here: Wisconsin’s two losses came to Michigan and Ohio State. Both times, the Badgers lost by just 7 points to two of the top teams in the country. They’re just a better team than Nebraska, despite the record.

4) Nebraska (6-0, 3-0): Yeah, yeah, Nebraska is 6-0. But let’s be honest, who have the Huskers played? Fresno State, Wyoming, Oregon, Northwestern, Illinois, and Indiana. I just can’t justify putting them higher on the list than Wisconsin. Side note: When Iowa was 6-0 last year, it was ranked No. 17. Not No. 8.

5) Iowa (5-2, 3-1): Here the Hawkeyes are, continuing to inch their way back up from the devastation that was two losses to North Dakota State and Northwestern. They’ll drop a couple spots next week though, after they lose to Wisconsin.

6) Penn State (4-2, 2-1): The Nittany Lions have a real chance of going 9-3 post-Sandusky scandal. The no-sanctions thing is looking good on you, Penn State.

7) Northwestern (3-3, 1-2): Look at those Wildcats creeping up there. Their next game against Indiana is a must win, con-sidering they have Ohio State and Wisconsin back-to-back in the following two weeks.

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Each week, the Iowa football team meets with the media on Tuesday. We get a whole bunch of quotes from the availability, but not everything can be put into a story.

Here are some of our favorites from this week.

Josey Jewell, defensive lineman On Wisconsin’s jet sweep: “There’s

small things that different teams try to do, Trying to get your eye disci-plined in different places, looking at the back, sweeping across instead of looking at your keys on the line, and just trying to move people around if you’re in man or zone. They’re just trying to get people out of where they’re supposed to be and get their eyes different places.”

On Wisconsin’s power: “They like to put a lot of guys back there, a lot of fullbacks, tight end guys, and try to block you with those guys, try to get the d-line covered up with their

offensive line. So really we have to be knowing our gaps and play disci-plined football.”

On the overall game: “It’s Wisconsin football, they like to run it down your throat, but they also have a lot of other things they can throw at you… They’re just a really good football team.”

Leshun Daniels, running back“They’re an excellent defense.

They’re going to bring it every snap. You have to make sure you’re men-tally ready for the pounding you’re going to get… There are going to be plenty of plays that are going to be 1-, 2-yard gains.”

On Akrum Wadley’s impact this season: “He goes out there and makes plays. It’s simple. It’s some-thing that… he’s shown before but I think that this year he’s just doing it so consistently. It’s really been a big plus for us all.”

On the “Thunder and Lightning”

comparison of him and Wadley: “We don’t really buy into it that much, but we obviously hear it all the time. We know that both of us can do what-ever is called of us in a situation…. We know that we do different things well but I think that we can definite-ly do each other’s job.”

Akrum Wadley, running back Same question: “I don’t know, I’m

probably lightning.”

C.J. Beathard, quarter backOn Wisconsin’s 3-4 defense: “They

do what they do just like we do what we do offensively, defensively as well. They trust in what they do and they do it well.”

Nathan Bazata, offensive linemanOn Wisconsin quarterback Al-

ex Hornibrook and Iowa’s inability

to rush the passer against Purdue: “He’s a lefty, so that’s a little differ-ent than normal. He’s good in the pocket, so we have to get pressure on him, compared to last week when we just kind of struggled with that. … We couldn’t get off our blocks, and we just couldn’t get a rush to get after [David Blough] to pressure him. We lost a couple containment issues, and we have to be really strong on that.”

Kirk Ferentz, head coachOn depth charts: “Yeah, maybe

they are antiquated, I don’t know. As coaches, we’re going to look at the film and see who finished up the game and kind of go from there. So yeah. No real strong opinion. Pret-ty good chance Beathard will be the quarterback, I can give you that one, LeShun. Those four guys I men-tioned will all be starting. We’ll try to start our best guys as long as they’re healthy and ready to go.”

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No. 10 Wisconsin at Iowa

No. 6 Texas A&M at No. 1 Alabama

TCU at No. 12 West Virginia

Northwestern at Indiana

No. 23 Ole Miss at No. 25 LSU

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IOWAThere’s going to be a moment

in this game where I say “I told you guys my gut was right.”

IOWAIf it snows on Saturday and Iowa wins it will be Christmas Eve, but lets hope one of those two things

doesn’t happen.

WISCONSINI’d love to be optimistic, but.

WISCONSINI can’t wait to be publicly

shamed for wearing red this weekend.

WISCONSINPretty simple.

IOWAThis is my upset win of

the week... Please do not disappoint me Iowa or my 2nd

place standing, Iowa.

ALABAMAJohnny Football can’t save you

now, Aggies.

ALABAMAThis is actually Saban’s best Alabama team. Think about

that.

ALABAMADoes anyone actually think the Tide is going to lose a

game this season?

ALABAMACan’t go wrong here.

ALABAMAThey are growing on me..

(plus I have a bet going they go undefeated this year)

ALABAMA I started Pregame before

Saturday of last week and still had Alabama as

No. 1. So..

WEST VIRGINIALittle known fact: In order to join the Big 12 you have to pay a couch burning tax. Cincinnati wouldn’t pay it.

TCUThe Big 12 is a dumpster fire and won’t allow undefeated

teams.

TCUMy brother and I used to

catch frogs and keep them in five-gallon pails for weeks

until they died. Memories.

TCUThey look solid.

WEST VIRGINAI like the name Dana..

WEST VIRGINAI wonder if you kiss a Horned Frog does it turn into a prince

or a Mountaineer?

INDIANAThe Hoosiers are better than we’re giving them credit for.

Not much, though.

INDIANAThis is a very blah game. But

the Hoosiers have looked okay.

INDIANARemember how Michigan

State lost to Northwestern? Ha! How pathetic. Wait.

INDIANAIndiana’s been rolling, and I

hate Northwestern.

NORTHWESTERNFitz has got something going

strong right now.

INDIANA Lol, re-read Courtney’s.

OLE MISSI miss Bo Wallace.

LSULSU is gaining like 500 yards a game since it canned Les

Miles.

LSULet’s geaux Tigers. It should be seaux fun to watch them

bleaux away Ole Miss.

OLE MISSWhen aren’t they good.

LSUThis is a huge home win

that LSU needs. I think they can do it.

WISCONSIN (60%)Sorry ‘bout it.

ALABAMA (90%)Redo.

TCU (71%)Hey why not?

NORTHWESTERN (69%)nice.

LSU (63%)GEAUX TEAM.

LSUStarted at the top and

now we at the bottom... I don’t think that’s how its

suppose to go.

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