PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Vincent Valentine wondered about the Iowa score. The Iowa game hadn’t started yet, but you can understand the Husker junior defensive tackle not knowing. He’d been busy.
But now that work had been handled, a 31-14 Husker win over Rutgers secure in the billfold, Valentine and his teammates had 13 days to think about the surprisingly undefeated and top five-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes.
Yes, Valentine wanted Iowa to win Saturday night. “Definitely, definitely,” he said. “We definitely want them to be undefeated. We’re excited. That will make it even more challenging for us. But I think whenever we’re challenged we step up to the plate.