Regional, but hey.
At some point, it was going to happen. When a team goes from unranked and unheralded to begin the season -- with expectations so low and fan discontent so high that their head coach is in a featured spot on every "hot seat" listing around -- to 11-0 and top 3 in the national polls, well, that's one hell of a good story. It just so happens that story this year is about your Iowa Hawkeyes. And so Iowa football, fresh off a 40-20 win over Purdue that locked up the Big Ten West and sitting on one of the only undefeated records left in college football, is featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week.