The Iowa Hawkeyes are on the road today (Saturday), visiting Ohio State. Kick-off is at 11-a.m., with the pre-game on KJAN beginning at 9-a.m.  Iowa is a better than four touchdown underdog at second ranked Ohio State. Iowa’s abysmal offense needs to find a way to stay on the field and generate points to help the defense.

The defense has a challenge against an Ohio State defense that is one of the best in the country.

With Iowa’s lack of talent on offense it has been impossible to put a scout team together in practice that looks like the Ohio State offense.

Ferentz says the players know they are a significant underdog.

The CAM Cougars hit on enough big plays to outlast the Baxter Bolts 58-38 on Friday night in the first round of the 8-Player playoffs. The Cougars hit on long touchdown passes at the end of the first half and beginning of the second half to swing the game in their favor.

Baxter scored on a 30-yard touchdown pass from Cody Damman to Cael Shepley with just 24 seconds left in the first half to take a 30-18 lead. It seemed like a deflating moment for the Cougars but they let it fly when they got the ball back. Chase Spieker hooked up with Jack Follmann down the seem for 61-yards and touchdown with just 11 seconds left in he half. Austin Williams added the 2-point conversion and CAM was back within 4 at 30-26 at the break.

The Cougars got the ball to start the second half and hit another bomb on the first play of the half. Spieker connected with Sam Foreman down the right sideline for 65-yards and a score to give the Cougars their first lead of the night, 34-30 after the conversion. Baxter responded well with a 19-play drive that took nearly eight minutes off the game clock, capping it off with a 15 yard touchdown run from Cody Damman. They converted the two-point try and went up 38-34. CAM shut the Bolts out the rest of the way. Sam Foreman started to get consistent pressure in the Bolts’ backfield and the tide turned to the Cougars. Follmann ripped off a 67-yard rushing score to put the Cougars back in front for good on the second play of the fourth quarter. Follmann added another rushing score and Sam Foreman hauled in a touchdown pass with 1:21 left to put a bow on a hard-fought win.

Jack Follmann had a monster game with 113 yards and 4 rushing touchdowns to go along with 98 yards receiving and another score. Chase Spieker had an efficient night at quarterback going 12-16 for 296 yards and three touchdowns. Sam Foreman had 177 receiving yards and two touchdowns. The Cougars improved to 7-2 on the season and will now await their 2nd round match-up.

Baxter was led by 32-48 passing for 350 yards and three touchdowns from Cody Damman. He also racked up 133 yards and 1 touchdown on the ground. He spent some time out of the game after taking multiple big hits in the third quarter but did come back in later in a gutty effort. The Bolts end their season at 7-2.

Listen to the postgame interviews with CAM’s Jack Follmann and Head Coach Barry Bower below.

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The IHSAA released the list of football playoff qualifiers for Class 3A-5A schools on Friday night. Pairings for all round of 16 games will be released on Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m.

Atlantic won their regular season finale over Creston but end up left out of the playoff field. Two district runners-up landed outside of the top 15 in the RPI to push Assumption and Atlantic out. Creston, despite finishing 4th in the district, still gets in.

8-Player Playoffs

West Harrison 29, Bedford 27
Southeast Warren 38, East Mills 32
St. Mary’s, Remsen 76, Audubon 0
Lenox 66, Colo-Nesco 14
CAM 58, Baxter 38- ON KJAN
Fremont-Mills 44, Moravia 38

Class A Playoffs

AHSTW 46, Westwood 21
Lynnville-Sully 49, Earlham 16
Woodbury Central 42, South O’Brien 0
Gehlen Catholic, LeMars 40, Tri-Center 22
Southwest Valley 21, Madrid 14
Hinton 46, Logan-Magnolia 22- ON LMAV

Class 1A Playoffs

Underwood 49, Interstate-35 17
Van Meter 49, Pleasantville 0
West Sioux 58, East Sac County 0
ACGC 34, Treynor 29
Kuemper Catholic 35, Emmetsburg 8 (@ Buena Vista, Storm Lake)
Woodward-Granger 34, West Central Valley 3

Class 2A Playoffs

Greene County 35, Union, LaPorte City 13
West Marshall 63, Clarke 13
Clarinda 56, Roland-Story 27
OABCIG 29, Unity Christian 23

Class 3A Regular Season

District 6

Atlantic 26, Creston 21
Harlan 49, Knoxville 0
ADM 65, Saydel 0

Class 4A Regular Season

District 1

LeMars 44, Fort Dodge 16
Spencer 35, Storm Lake 7
Webster City 63, Denison-Schleswig 7- ON KDSN and KDSNTV

District 6

CB Thomas Jefferson 9, Des Moines Hoover 7
Glenwood 44, Dallas Center-Grimes 14
Lewis Central 42, Winterset 15

Other Bonus Regular Season

Akron-Westfield 34, Riverside 0

Siouxland Christian 34, Griswold 30