PISCATAWAY − Even Greg Schiano wonders what might've been.

If he had never left as Rutgers football coach following the NFL season, what would the Scarlet Knights have become ?

Perhaps something like what Kirk Ferentz has built with Iowa over his 27 seasons at the helm. Buy Rutgers tickets vs. Iowa

"I looked at them as a program we would like to emulate," Schiano said. "You can't live in the past. My regret is that I left. If we hadn't left, who knows? We might be that program today. But we're not. We are where we are. We have a lot of work to do. That's really my focus now."

On Friday Schiano will lead his team against those Iowa Hawkeyes at SHI Stadium (8 p.m. ET, FOX) as both teams play their Big Ten opener.

This will be the fifth time the programs have met, but the Hawkeye

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