If you want a symbol for No. 5 Iowa's surprising season, look no further than Josey Jewell.
A no-name recruit. Tough as nails. Making plays all over the field as the Hawkeyes' middle linebacker and leading tackler (77 stops).
Better yet, he's an Iowa kid, raised on a corn farm in Decorah -- a town of about 8,000 people in the northeast corner of the state near the Minnesota border.
"I always dreamed of being an Iowa Hawkeye," he says.
It was a dream deferred for a couple generations for the Jewell family.