There is picking up the pieces and then there is what Penn State is trying to do this week.Three consecutive losses not only dropped the Nittany Lions from No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25 to zero votes in the poll, but the results dropped Penn State’s confidence in 12th-year coach James Franklin to zero. He was fired on Sunday, a day after the Nittany Lions’ stunning 22-21 home defeat to Northwestern.Interim head coach Terry Smith and the players will try to make something good happen Saturday night when they travel to Iowa for a Big Ten matchup.”We got our coach fired,” senior offensive lineman Nick Dawkins said. “We didn’t play well enough. We didn’t do our job good enough and now he doesn’t have a job anymore. For us, at least as players, it’s an overwhelming sense of guilt.”Making the task tougher is that senior quarterback Drew Allar is out for the year due to a severe left leg injury he sustained on his team’s next-to-last snap against Northwestern. Redshirt freshman Ethan Grunkemeyer, who ran for no gain on the team’s last play, replaces Allar.The Nittany Lions (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten) and their new quarterback now must face the Hawkeyes (4-2, 2-1), who just played their best game of the year, a 37-0 win at Wisconsin. Iowa permits just 13 points per game.