Two Hawkeye football players have earned the Distinguished Scholar Award for maintaining a 3.7 GPA or better during the previous year. Center Josh Koeppel and placekicker Daniel Murray were the 2 Iowa football players awarded.
In all, The University of Iowa had 37 student-athletes receive the award. Below is a full list of football nerds, I mean scholars, from each school in the Big Ten. I was expecting Northwestern to top the list, but actually Penn State comes out the winner with 7 Distinguished Scholars.
| School | Scholars |
|---|
| Illinois | 1 |
| Indiana | 1 |
| Iowa | 2 |
| Michigan | 3 |
| Michigan State | 3 |
| Minnesota | 4 |
| Northwestern | 4 |
| Ohio State | 6 |
| Penn State | 7 |
| Purdue | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 4 |