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Ohio State stumbles, Washington dominates in Week 8

The College Football Playoff picture received a serious shake-up this weekend after Penn State upset Ohio State in Happy Valley. For the first time this year, the Buckeyes dropped out of the top two of the AP rankings. Ohio State’s performance against Wisconsin and a 24-21 loss to unranked Penn State have shown flaws in the offense, and simultaneously snapped its 20-game road win streak. To get back to the playoffs, the Buckeyes will likely need to win out.

Specialists’ competitive edge comes out in daily battles at ping-pong tables

After a long day of classes on a typical Tuesday afternoon, junior kicker Andrew Endicott needed to get his competitive feelings back. So logically, he challenged one of his specialist teammates to a competition to try and get his motor running. Wisconsin punter and kickoff specialist P.J. Rosowski was Endicott’s opponent. Their domain was ping-pong, a sport that is as similar to football as chocolate is to zucchini.

Despite injury, Cichy proves worthy of leading role

Coming into the season, Jack Cichy was scheduled to be just another rotation player, backing up last year’s returning starters at inside linebacker, sophomore Chris Orr and redshirt sophomore T.J. Edwards.

Watt, Badger players mistake game for Halloween

After suffering a devastating loss two weeks ago to the then-No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes, the Wisconsin Badgers were left searching for answers. While the players were quick to call it a team loss, head coach Paul Chryst thought otherwise.

Badgers welcome Armstrong Jr., Nebraska to bright lights of Camp Randall

The lights at Camp Randall will be fired back up for the second time in three weeks as the No. 7 Nebraska Cornhuskers (4-0 Big Ten, 7-0 overall) come to town to take on the No. 11 Wisconsin Badgers (2-2 Big Ten, 5-2 overall) in a matchup that could have championship implications.

Wisconsin consistently finds "diamonds in the rough," as exemplified by turning T.J. Watt, who's national recruiting rank was 941, into a first round draft pick.

Cardinal Zone Podcast: Nebraska-Wisconsin preview, men's basketball season preview

In this week's episode, host Bobby Ehrlich is joined by football columnist Zach Rastall and basketball beat writer Ben Pickman to discuss the football game vs. Nebraska and the start of the basketball season. Zach gives his take on the two-quarterback system now being employed as well as what the Cichy injury means for Wisconsin. Ben talks about what he saw at the Badgers' Red-White Scrimmage, most notably an improved Bronson Koenig. Ben and Zach also give their way-too early predictions for Wisconsin's season. 

Mondays with Rasty: Inability to cash in on redzone opportunities troublesome for UW

There is nothing quite like a Wisconsin-Iowa game to make you second-guess your love for football.

Defense suffocates, offense struggles in Badgers' win over Hawkeyes

The Wisconsin Badgers’ defense knew it had to get back on track after allowing a season-high 30 points last week, and Saturday was mission accomplished as UW (2-2 Big Ten, 5-2 overall) held the Iowa Hawkeyes (3-2, 5-3) out of the end zone in a 17-9 victory in Iowa City to reclaim the Heartland Trophy.

Top teams survive, Michigan surpasses Clemson

College Football Week 7 did not offer much in terms of upsets, but, despite the majority of favorites winning, there was still plenty of entertainment, including two significant overtime thrillers. Ohio State and Clemson both notably made things interesting, barely squeaking out wins in games where they were favored by at least 10 points.

Badgers predicted to stifle Iowa, reclaim Heartland Trophy

Andrew Tucker, football feature writer

Ohio State, Michigan still atop Big Ten

After further consideration, it has been decided that our Big Ten super team Michpenndianaowaland State will be disbanded. It was too beautiful for this world.

Smooth like Jazz: Peavy plays complete game against OSU

As redshirt freshman quarterback Alex Hornibrook dropped back to pass on the final play of overtime, he looked to his right hoping to find an open receiver. One of the players that Hornibrook was looking to find was junior wide receiver Jazz Peavy. While Hornibrook was sacked on the play, it was no coincidence he was looking to his big-play slot receiver on arguably the most important play of UW’s season. Though the Badgers couldn’t complete the major upset against No. 2 Ohio State Saturday night, junior wide receiver Jazz Peavy stepped up and led UW during the contest, and was subsequently the team’s most valuable player.

Tough talk: Violence unavoidable, celebrated in football

I’ll be the first to admit that I love football. There’s something inherently primal about lining up in front of someone, knowing that your only goal in that moment is either to get past them or stop them from getting past you.