Kirk Ferentz, Iowa 'Looking forward to the wave' in home-opener against Northwestern

After dropping their season opener to Purdue, Iowa will have its home-opener this weekend against Northwestern. Northwestern is fresh off its 43-3 shellacking of Maryland while Iowa lost 24-20.

With Iowa returning home, head coach Kirk Ferentz had a couple of things to say today during his press conference, one of them being about “The Wave”:

🗣️ Head coach Kirk Ferentz: "We're looking forward to being in Kinnick. It won't be the same. We're looking forward to The Wave. All in all, we're looking forward to kickoff and have a lot of work to do for a good Northwestern team." #Hawkeyes

— IowaFBLive (@IowaFBLive) October 27, 2020

The Wave was started back in September of 2017 when Iowa fans waved to patients and families in the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. The families and patients all waved back and it’s been a tradition ever since.

We’re usually accustomed to seeing 70,000 Hawkeye fans do “The Wave” inside Kinnick Stadium, but for their games this season, it’ll only be between 10,000-15,000 due to the coronavirus.

Iowa will also be getting back Max Cooper for this game, according to Ferentz:

Kirk Ferentz says wide receiver Max Cooper was injured last week but will be back for the Northwestern game

— MarkEmmert (@MarkEmmert) October 27, 2020

Kickoff is at 3:30 p.m. ET and the game will be broadcast on ESPN.