Kirk Ferentz got himself in trouble in yesterday's press conference when asked about Iowa fans booing the injured PSU players in the last game. Instead of backing off, he doubled-down, saying this was only the 2nd time in a Big Ten game where he thought a team was faking injuries, and went into detail how he knows it goes on at other programs.
The key question is, Ferentz never speaks off the cuff, so he must know something, but in the end, why stir the pot? You need to move on to Purdue and leave PSU behind, right?
I don't know if it was part of his strategy, probably not, but this may be a way to motivate what would be a flat Iowa team otherwise. Throw in the overall perception that Iowa would have lost if PSU QB never got hurt, and might just provide the motivation for Iowa to go and blow out Purdue.