IOWA CITY — The ESPN Analytics matchup predictor gives Iowa a 93% likelihood of beating the Redbirds while ESPNBet favors Iowa by 22.5 points.
However, Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, who will serve a one-game suspension on Saturday, said his team will not overlook their week one foe during his media availability on Tuesday.
“The people who think they know what is going to happen, most of them, do not have to go out and compete,” Ferentz said. “… In college football, anything can happen … That is just the nature of college football.”
Ferentz specifically noted a pair of upsets in week zero — Montana State over New Mexico and Georgia Tech over Florida State — as evidence of college football’s volatile nature.