Kent State is a program clearly on the rise, as displayed by rattling off eight victories in its last 10 outings. But the Golden Flashes’ non-conference schedule is going to make that stretch difficult to replicate.
The three FBS opponents Kent State will face prior to MAC play combine for a 6-0 record. The Flashes started the season against a top 10 Texas A&M team down in College Station, and now they travel to America’s heartland to battle another top 10 opponent — No. 5 Iowa.
Iowa convincingly suffocated Indiana and Iowa State to open its 2021 campaign, and now the Hawkeyes are the highest ranked team in the Big Ten for the first time since 2015.