Curt Cignetti and Kirk Ferentz have known one another for more than 40 years. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the mid-1980s, when Cignetti was a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh and Ferentz, who had been in Cignetti’s role just a few years earlier, would occasionally come by the Panther s’offices to say hello.

Four decades later, both are veteran head coaches and their respect for one another was on display this week as Cignetti’s Indiana gets set to take on Ferentz’s Iowa on Saturday at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.

Cignetti got the mutual admiration fest rolling Monday when he said explicitly that facing Iowa (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) on the road would be a more difficult test than the one his team handled with so much ease against then-No. 9 Illinois last Saturday at Memorial Stad

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