Three Things to Watch: Nebraska
1. Protecting the ball
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1. Protecting the ball
Redshirt junior Dan Voltz has decided to retire from football. Voltz suffered a serious knee injury last season and was transitioning to a new position.
In movies and TV shows, high schools often feature two stereotypes: band nerds and jocks. Dan Voltz would have been the character that defies the societal norms, a Troy Bolton-esque protagonist that excels athletically and musically. Maybe he’s not exactly like Zac Efron’s character from “High School Musical,” but Voltz has a love for both music and football.
The first full week of conference action is in the books for the Big Ten, and everybody has been left with a whole slew of new questions regarding the state of the conference.
All throughout preparation during Iowa week, the idea repeated ad nauseam was that the Big Ten is all about physical football. That one mysterious, flawed and essentially empty idea wove itself into a tapestry of non-answers about what Big Ten, and the Wisconsin-Iowa rivalry, really is at its core.
With nine minutes left in the third quarter, No. 1 Ohio State, the defending national champions, found itself trailing Indiana 10-6.
Before Hall of Famer Barry Alvarez built the football house known as Camp Randall, he was a Cornhusker. In fact, Alvarez was the leading tackler for Nebraska during the 1967 season in Lincoln. Alvarez credits much of his success building the Wisconsin football program to the practices and values that he learned in his time at Nebraska.
Wisconsin’s senior tight end Austin Traylor, who expanded his role in the offense this season, will be out 4-8 weeks with a right arm injury, as first reported Thursday morning by the Wisconsin State Journal’s Jason Galloway.
When a football game is described as a battle in the trenches, usually it refers to ground and pound football that is won and lost based on which team’s line can get the stronger push up front. When Wisconsin (0-1 Big Ten, 3-2 overall) takes on Nebraska (0-1, 2-3) this weekend, it won’t be a traditional trench war, but the game will hinge on the performances of both team’s big men on the line of scrimmage.
When people think of Big Ten football, they typically think of smashmouth running and strong defense, resulting in a low-scoring, close game. Wisconsin’s 10-6, conference-opening loss to Iowa fell in line with that archetype, but it was much more brutal.
After a rough sophomore season, Sojourn Shelton has impressed so far in his junior campaign.
As the leaves of the trees continue to change, the Wisconsin football season rolls on. The temperatures are slowly starting to drop, a source of dread for students everywhere. But for junior Sojourn Shelton, who hails from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the seasons of Madison were a welcome change.
Tommy Armstrong Jr. threw for a season-high 368 yards and two touchdowns in Nebraska’s 36-28 win over Southern Miss.
With a combined 431 yards of total offense, junior quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. led the Nebraska Cornhuskers to a much needed 36-28 win over Southern Miss last Saturday.
There’s no change in this week’s power rankings, though Ohio State closed the gap between itself and the Michigan State Spartans. The week was fairly solid for the Big Ten as a majority of its teams wrapped up their non-conference schedules and now turn their attention to the start of Big Ten play.
Paul Chryst is hoping his players do not as derpy as he does this Saturday.
Like him or not, Wisconsin was an excellent football program when Bret Bielema was at the helm. And it was like that for far longer than those who just want to give credit to Barry Alvarez’s program-building skills would like.
This week’s graph charts offensive efficiency and defensive efficiency, with bubble size representing Football Power Index. Teams in the top right quadrant have shown exceptional efficiency on both sides of the ball, and that’s likely where the four playoff teams will come from.