NEW YORK — It’s all over but the playing.

For the ISU and Rugters football teams, it’s been a week of functions, handshakes, photo-ops, sight-seeing and football practice.

Now, all the teams have left to do is take the field on Friday for the New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium in New York.

“The sole focus of bowl week and everything that goes into it is the football game,” said ISU coach Paul Rhoads. “I don’t think we’ve had distractions, I just think we’ve had great experiences. All that is not taking away from the preparation that’s taking place on the practice field.

“We’ve really lived this experience, and now we’ll turn great attention to meetings today and finishing things up.”

Rhoads said he didn’t have any doubt that his team would have energy for the game Friday, but that his players might have some trouble with one particular member of the Rutgers football team.

Wide receiver Mohamed Sanu was the star of the Scarlet Knights’ offense this season, ending the regular season with 109 catches, 1,144 yards and seven touchdowns.

When asked how he and his staff were able to imitate Sanu’s athleticism in practice, Rhoads laughed.

“We haven’t, that’s the simple answer,” Rhoads said. “He’s a great football player, as productive as any receiver in college football. The way they move him around and line him up in different locations, you can’t zero-in on that. So it’s going to take a complete team defensive effort to try to control him.

“You’re not going to stop him, you’re not going to shut him down.”

As has been the storyline for Rutgers (8-4, 4-3 Big East) most of the season, it’s not certain yet who the Scarlet Knights’ starting quarterback will be.

Rutgers coach Greg Schiano said Thursday he hasn’t yet made a decision, but the two will both likely play.

“We have some ideas [and] right now we’re talking it all through,” Schiano said. “I think you can expect to see them both play. Who starts, I’m not sure yet. We’ll kind of let that happen at kickoff.”

Rhoads, meanwhile, has said in the lead-up to this game that his team hasn’t prepared for each quarterback individually, because both Gary Nova and Chas Dodd have a similar playing style.

With Rutgers being so close to home, its fans will be able to travel well, as they did for the Scarlet Knights’ regular season game against Army on Nov. 12 in Yankee Stadium.

While the Cyclones (6-6, 3-6 Big 12) will be wearing their home cardinal uniforms, it could amount to a road game with all the Rutgers fans in attendance.

“You spend half the season playing road games,” Rhoads said. “We’ve approached it that way from the very beginning, and anything we would do in preparation for a road game, we’ve done with this one. I don’t think our kids will respond otherwise when we tee it up [on Friday].”

Kickoff for the second annual Pinstripe Bowl is set for 2:30 p.m. central time.