... as one for a teams few new anything about. Gators, Sooners, and Trojans fans alike united together to cheer for the 5-4 Iowa Hawkeyes, who were a field goal away from upsetting the third-ranked team in the country, the Penn State Nittany Lions.

Granted, the cheering was more against Penn State than it was for Iowa, as the game-winning field goal sailed through the uprights, Happy Valley cried, and the rest of the country rejoyced.

Why? It was just an upset. But to college football fans across America it was much more. It wasn't just an upset, it meant that a Big Ten team would not play for the National Championship.

As any college football fan knows, fans outside of the Midwest aren't too fond of the Big Ten, seeing it ...

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