KIRK FERENTZ: Good afternoon. Thanks for being here.Looking back, it was great to get a road victory, first Big Ten win, and to do it on the road and at night, certainly a challenge the whole time. The biggest thing, we saw some growth in all three phases out there in the game. Pleased about that.I thought on special teams, kickoff coverage was a little bit better. Had a couple kickoff returns that looked decent, and good to see Drew Stevens on the field goal production. The run game was a little bit better the other night, probably the best it's been, and the defense came up with another good effort.All in all, a good team effort. Happy certainly for the two guys that were honored, Tory Taylor, recognized by the Big Ten, as well as Kaevon, so both those guys had big nights. Good Andre Drummond Jersey to see their efforts be recognized.Captains this week, same four guys, Jack Campbell, Sam LaPorta, Kaevon Merriweather and Riley Mo s.Then on the injury front, unfortunately we did get bad news on Jestin Jacobs. Didn't sound good the other night, and that's been confirmed. He's going to have to have surgery and he will mi s the rest of the season. That's obviously a tough break.Tough for the team, but most importantly just tough on the individual, and that's the worst part about injuries.Keagan right now will not be going this week, so we'll take that a day at a time, week at a time, and keep moving forward there.With Michigan coming to town, we have a tough challenge here. Traditionally they've been one of the best teams in the conference and might as well say best teams in the country, as well. Had a really good year last year, and they've continued that play moving forward into this season, so they're off to a really good start.As always, an impre sive team. They have a lot of talent, all three phases, and certainly are well-coached. You pick out the special teams, grab that one. They have three very veteran guys in terms of their specialists, the punter, kicker. One is a fifth-year guy, one is a sixth-year guy, and their deep snapper is a veteran guy, Kyle Korver Jersey as well, senior. Excellent return guys. They do a nice job.It's the same thing offensively and defensively. They have a lot of really good players, and they've been very productive, very succe sful, and it's going to take our best team effort to have a chance in this ballgame. So it's a big challenge for us. Look forward to that on Saturday.Just a couple side notes, 20-year reunion for the 2002 group, so great to have them back. They'll be here Friday, Saturday, and be honored during the game. Really happy for them.Then moving down that road a little bit, great to have Tony be recognized with the ANF award. It's quite a wall there. The names on that wall are impre sive, and Tony's name certainly fits up there, as well. As you can see, starting a new family, young family, so it's great to see the guys as they move on in life and start the next phase of their lives. Very happy for Tony, and his family will all be here over the weekend to be part of that, as well.Our kid captain is Adam Arp, a 16-year-old from Williamsburg, will be good to have him with us, as well.Looking forward to being back in Kinnick Stadium, and should be a good environment, so hopefully we'll be ready to go.Q. First off, from an injury standpoint, is Terry Roberts available for Saturday?KIRK FERENTZ: We'll see. We're hoping so.Q. Has he been able to practice?KIRK FERENTZ: A little bit, limited. We'll see how it goes.Q. When you got here in '81, you guys beat Michigan. It was only the fifth victory over Michigan ever for Iowa. Is that because maybe there's a belief system that you Zydrunas Ilgauskas Jersey can beat a team --KIRK FERENTZ: I think that works sometimes in football. If you look in our conference, I'm more familiar with that. I think there are some series that have been like that a little bit. But to that point, that was a really big game I thought. We were coming off a lo s if I remember correctly. I might be wrong on that; maybe the lo s was the next week, but somewhere in there.But to go up to Ann Arbor and win like that, that was a hard-fought game, and that's one commonality with all the victories that we have had, they've all been really tough to earn. They go 60 minutes.That's what it's going to take this Saturday, too, but I do believe back then it was a big thing within the series, and as far as the impact of the series, then maybe more importantly just for the program, for where we were at at that time, it was an important win.Q. The numbers suggest that Kinnick is a difficult place to play if you're a top-5 team. Since 2008 you're 5-1 against top-5 teams and the only lo s was on the last play of the game. Why does your team respond so well to that Dante Exum Jersey kind of competition, and what do you think and how do you think the environment maybe plays into that?KIRK FERENTZ: Well, the environment is easy. Our fans do a great job, and certainly it's gotten even better now with the north end zone. That's helped a great deal, as well.But the important thing for our team to understand is that the fans can only do so much, and they've been great, and we appreciate that. But we'd better be playing on the field.I think the challenge, the games you referenced and this one hopefully will be like that, our players need to understand each and every play -- it's like an NFL playoff game; each and every play, something can happen. So if you're not at your absolute best of kind of talent and ability they have -- and I cited their kicking game. That's a good example. They're going to make field position a challenge for us, and then they've got return guys that if you're not good in coverage, they can hurt you real fast.It's kind of like that at every position, offensively, defensively. They've recruited really well. They're a big, strong, athletic team, so if you're not on your game each and every play, big things can happen against you.The games you've referenced, our guys have had a good understanding of that and they've NBA Cleveland Cavaliers Jeresy had a good appreciation for that, so can we close that gap between now and 11 am, that's the challenge that we have.Q. Is there something in practice does that come back to, where the mentality starts? Probably to me the most surprising win you had was against Michigan six years ago because of what happened the week before.KIRK FERENTZ: Surprised a lot of people, yeah. Understanding obviously the circumstances played into it, yeah. But you have to do everything right. That's a great illustration. Pretty much everything in that game we were doing what we could do. Not that every play is a great play, but we didn't give them anything easy and came up with a couple plays and then played some situations really well.Again, that's a good illustration because it felt like we were climbing a high hill the whole game.Q