No. 23 Iowa 明言する／公表する 直面するing stiff 実験（する） against Ragin' Cajuns
For the first time since 2012, Iowa 明言する／公表する will open its season against an 対抗者 from the Football Bowl Subdivision.
The サイクロンs 初めは were 始める，決める to 緩和する into the season against South Dakota of the FCS. But the coronavirus pandemic 原因（となる）d 延期s and 取り消しs across college football, and the サイクロンs had to 緊急発進する to line up Louisiana-Lafayette for Saturday.
Coach Matt Campbell hopes the サイクロンs don't get more than they 取引d for in a "buy" game that will 逮捕する the Ragin' Cajuns $350,000 for visiting Jack Trice Stadium.
"I felt like our 死刑執行 has been crisp and sharp through the entirety of 落ちる （軍の）野営地，陣営," Campbell said. "Are we going to get out and 取り組む 井戸／弁護士席? Are we going to take care of the football? Those are things that are going to be 批判的な when you´re talking about two teams that are really even across the board."
Brock Purdy will begin his second 十分な season as starting quarterback after 主要な the サイクロンs to one of their best 不快な／攻撃 years in program history. The owner of 21 school 記録，記録的な／記録するs threw for almost 4,000 yards and 27 touchdowns, and his 306.3 yards per game 階級d fourth 国家的に.
The Cajuns have won two straight Sun Belt West 肩書を与えるs and, at 11-3 全体にわたる and 7-1 in the 会議／協議会, are coming off the best season in program history. They're entering their third season under Billy Napier.
FILE - Iowa 明言する／公表する 長，率いる coach Matt Campbell, 中心, walks off the field with quarterback Brock Purdy after the （軍の）野営地，陣営ing World Bowl NCAA college football game against Notre Dame Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019, in Orlando, Fla. Iowa 明言する／公表する enters this season off its second-best three-year stretch in program history and with its sights 始める，決める on doing something it's never done - make the Big 12 選手権 game. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, とじ込み／提出する)
Lafayette brings 支援する quarterback Levi 吊りくさび, who last year became the school's first 3,000-yard passer. によれば Iowa 明言する／公表する cornerback Anthony Johnson, 吊りくさび "gives that vibe" of Arizona 枢機けい／主要なs quarterback and 2018 Heisman トロフィー 勝利者 Kyler Murray.
The matchup wasn't 発表するd until Aug. 12.
"There's a little bit different feel in the 空気／公表する this week," Napier said. "Lots of us were uncertain whether this was ever going to happen. We're excited about the 適切な時期 to compete and proud of our young men and the work they've put in to getting 用意が出来ている for this moment."
EMPTY STADIUM
No fans will be 許すd in the stadium as a 警戒 against coronavirus spread.
"I don't really know what the 環境 is going to be like," tight end Dylan Soehner said. "I'd assume it will be somewhat of a really 激しい practice feel. We don't have to do anything special to 準備する for that. We always make a joke that we could show up and play on the 味方する of the 主要道路, and that's 基本的に what we're doing."
JACK TRICE PATCHES
Iowa 明言する／公表する will wear a uniform patch 栄誉（を受ける）ing Trice, the school's first 黒人／ボイコット 競技者 who died from 傷害s 苦しむd in his second football game in 1923. Trice is the first 黒人／ボイコット man to have a stadium 指名するd in his 栄誉（を受ける）.
DON'T SLEEP ON THEM
The サイクロンs have had a knack for playing 対抗者s の近くに. Since 2017, they've been beaten by more than two touchdowns just once, and Purdy has led four fourth-４半期/4分の1 復帰 勝利，勝つs the last two seasons.
DIFFICULT MONTH
Lafayette assistant coach D.J. Looney died from a heart attack に引き続いて a team workout Aug. 1, and the team's practice schedule was 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd at the end of the month because of a ハリケーン.
Looney, who was 31, was entering his third season on the staff and coached the 不快な／攻撃 line along with 不快な／攻撃 調整者／コーディネーター 略奪する Sale.
ハリケーン Laura 軍隊d the 終結 of the campus for two days and 要求するd the practice schedule to be adjusted. Lafayette players and staff members 参加するd in a 血 運動 and 配達するd food and water to ハリケーン 犠牲者s in Lake Charles, 75 miles west of Lafayette.
TAKING A STEP UP
Lafayette is 1-28 against 最高の，を越す 25 対抗者s, 含むing 0-26 on the road, and 1-20 against 現在の members of the Big 12. The only 勝利，勝つ over a 階級d team was at home against Texas A&M in 1996, and their only 勝利，勝つ over a Big 12 team was against Kansas 明言する／公表する in 2009.
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FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2019, とじ込み／提出する photo, Iowa 明言する／公表する quarterback Brock Purdy (15) throws a pass in 前線 of Notre Dame 防御の lineman Adetokunbo Ogundeji (91) during the first half of the （軍の）野営地，陣営ing World Bowl NCAA college football game, in Orlando, Fla. Purdy, who led the most 生産力のある 罪／違反 in program history, has the look of a high-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 選ぶ if he 宣言するs for the NFL 草案 after his junior year. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, とじ込み／提出する)
