What time, TV channel will Penn State-Iowa be on in Week 8?

Penn State takes its second road trip of the 2025 season in Week 8 when the Lions go to Kinnick Stadium for a Big Ten clash with Iowa. The Lions figure to be favored in the contest, which will be the 33rd all-time meeting between the two schools. Head coach James Franklin’s side won the last game between the two, 31-0, last season at Beaver Stadium. His program also has an 18-14 all-time advantage. Will that number grow next Saturday at Kinnick Stadium? Time will tell. But, we at least now know when it will start and where you can watch it.

Peacock will stream the contest exclusively. It will start at 7 p.m. ET, or 6 p.m. ET local time at Kinnick.

Penn State is 3-2 after a shocking 42-37 loss at UCLA last Saturday in Los Angeles. The Hawkeyes, meanwhile, are 3-2 after coming off a bye week to open the October portion of their schedule. They travel to Wisconsin at 7 p.m. ET this weekend. The Lions face Northwestern for Homecoming this Saturday. Kickoff is at 3:30 p.m. ET.

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Before last Saturday, this looked like the toughest game on the Penn State schedule before its Nov. 1 trip to Ohio State. But, after the Lions lost at UCLA, they cannot look past Northwestern, which already beat the Bruins this year, before moving on to their matchup with the Hawkeyes. It’s something that no one anticipated before the season started. But, that’s where things are for James Franklin’s 3-2 Nittany Lions.

“I expected there to still be guardrails. I expected that there was a worst-case scenario…and thats 8-4, but then James gets to the end of the season and makes a lot of changes he knows he needs to make, and he course corrects, and he defines a little different way they’re going to do this, this, and that,” Pate said Sunday night. “But you can’t do that in the season. Well, the problem with making decisions as a head coach, which you get paid a lot of money to do, is, once you make them, you’ve made them,” said Pate. “You don’t get to make new choices on your staff.

“You don’t get to change your recruiting philosophy. You don’t get to portal in new players in week seven. You’re stuck with what you’re stuck with…James Franklin can’t fix a lot of this because he’s got an entire season left to go, and that’s even if he plans on fixing anything was my point. I don’t know because I can’t get in his head. I don’t known if he even sees fit to fix anything. I just know they missed the exit on this season. They totally missed it.”