Football

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Friendly rivalry motivates D-Line duo

By Lorin Cox | Nov. 26, 2014

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Camp Randall clash to decide West Division

By Jack Baer | Nov. 25, 2014

A multitude of incentives drive the teams of the Big Ten going into this final weekend of the regular season. The bottom teams play for pride, the middle plays for bowl placement, Minnesota and Wisconsin play for the division and Ohio State plays to gratuitiously humiliate Michigan.

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COLUMNS

Heisman Watch: Week 14

By Jim Dayton | Nov. 25, 2014

This is the 11th edition of the Heisman Watch, a weekly feature tracking the candidates for college football’s most prestigious award. For last week’s rankings, click here. 

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FOOTBALL

Badgers hang on against Iowa, 26-24

By Jim Dayton | Nov. 22, 2014

IOWA CITY, Iowa— In a wildly entertaining game, No. 14 Wisconsin knocked off Iowa, 26-24, to set up a winner-take-all game next week against Minnesota for the Big Ten West title.

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Wisconsin controls its own fate as Big Ten championship draws near

By Jim Dayton | Nov. 20, 2014

Last week’s 59-24 drubbing of Nebraska was Wisconsin’s most impressive victory since, well, the previous meeting between those two teams, a 70-31 Badger beatdown in the 2012 Big Ten title game.

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Five things to watch

By Thomas Valtin-Erwin | Nov. 20, 2014

1. Is Joel Stave the final answer at quarterback?

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Iowa’s balance keeps Hawkeyes in West race

By Brian Weidy | Nov. 20, 2014

Usually as a season progresses, teams become more predictable, falling into patterns of play where, on a week-to-week basis, fans and opponents know what to expect. In the case of the Iowa Hawkeyes, that is far from the truth.

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COLUMNS

Heisman Watch: Week 13

By Jim Dayton | Nov. 20, 2014

This is the 10th edition (hooray, double digits!) of the Heisman Watch, a weekly feature tracking the candidates for college football’s most prestigious award. For last week’s rankings, click here.

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Buckeyes, Badgers on collision course for Big Ten title game

By Jack Baer | Nov. 20, 2014

Thanks to Wisconsin’s, to put it politely, bulldozing of Nebraska, we now have a clear pitcure of what the Big Ten championship will look like. Ohio State has the East effectively sewn up and the Badgers continue to control their destiny, but now with some brand new safety cushions.

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FOOTBALL

Gameday: Conference races continue to take shape in Week 13

By Zach Rastall | Nov. 20, 2014

No. 12 Kansas State at West Virginia

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FOOTBALL

Football: UW heads to Iowa for crucial Big Ten game

By Jake Powers | Nov. 20, 2014

As the Badgers catch their breath after Melvin Gordon’s record-breaking afternoon against Nebraska, they now turn their attention to Iowa and what will be a heated Big Ten West race to the conference championship.

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CITY NEWS

Drunk Husker tries, fails to make jump over vehicle before football game

Nov. 16, 2014

Trying to tackle Melvin Gordon could have felt like being hit by a car to Nebraska players, but one Nebraska fan felt that all too literally.

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FOOTBALL

Gordon sets records, Wisconsin dominates Nebraska

By Jake Powers | Nov. 15, 2014

No. 22 Wisconsin thrashed No. 11 Nebraska, 59-24, by way of a record-setting rushing performance from Melvin Gordon Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.

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FOOTBALL

SEC clash has major playoff implications

By Jason Braverman | Nov. 13, 2014

No. 1 Mississippi State at No. 4 Alabama

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FOOTBALL

Nebraska’s season has been best in B1G West

By David Gwidt | Nov. 13, 2014

As we venture into Week 12 of the 2014 college football season, the Nebraska Cornhuskers find themselves atop the Big Ten West division standings posting an 8-1 record, with their only blemish being a road loss at Michigan State. Coming off of a bye week, the No. 13 Cornhuskers will travel to Camp Randall energized to play a game that may have Playoff implications for the team.

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FOOTBALL

Five things to watch

By Shea Gallup | Nov. 13, 2014

1: Wisconsin’s shutdown defense

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FOOTBALL

Football: UW takes on Nebraska in divisional showdown

By Jim Dayton | Nov. 13, 2014

In a matchup full of conference championship implications, No. 11 Nebraska heads to Camp Randall Saturday to face No. 22 Wisconsin for supremacy in the Big Ten West.

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FOOTBALL

NFL referee excited to officiate family Turkey Bowl

By Kane Kaiman | Nov. 12, 2014

Referee Jerome Boger says he’s looking forward to officiating his family’s annual Thanksgiving touch football game this year. 

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FOOTBALL

Buckeyes take top spot in poll

By Jack Baer | Nov. 12, 2014

Hail Ohio State, new undisputed kings of the Big Ten. The Buckeyes have the inside track to the Big Ten championship and aren’t entirely eliminated from the College Football Playoff (although it’s going to require some very specific sequences of events to get them in). Now, we move onto the game that will likely decide the West.

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COLUMNS

Heisman Watch: Week 12

By Jim Dayton | Nov. 12, 2014

This is the ninth edition of the Heisman Watch, a weekly feature tracking the candidates for college football’s most prestigious award. For last week’s rankings, click here.