INDIANAPOLIS—Gary Andersen rarely passes up the opportunity to praise his team’s ability to fight through adversity. The head coach pays Wisconsin this compliment after nearly every game, citing its ability to bounce back after slow starts, glaring mistakes and blown plays.
The historic Melvin Gordon
INDIANAPOLIS— Trailing 31-0 near the end of the first half, Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Melvin Gordon fumbled deep inside Wisconsin territory, and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year Joey Bosa recovered the ball and returned it for a touchdown.
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Call it Madison East. For the third time in four years, No. 11 Wisconsin will head to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship in a battle with No. 6 Ohio State Saturday.
The Wisconsin Badgers, looking to win their fourth Big Ten title in the last five years, are headed to Indianapolis to take on Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes. Here are five things to watch as the Badgers try to capture their first conference championship under Gary Andersen and spoil the Buckeyes’ dreams of making the inaugural College Football Playoff.
I’ll admit it, I was wrong about Tanner McEvoy being the right starting quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers. Yes, shockingly I am not infallible.
Paul Bunyan’s Axe remains in Madison for the 11th straight season, and the Badgers are headed to Indianapolis.
One of college football’s oldest rivalries reaches a new pinnacle Saturday, as No. 22 Minnesota takes on No. 14 Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium to decide the Big Ten West title.
For a team coming into the season with aspirations simply to be bowl eligible, consistently picked fifth in the West Division in the preseason, Minnesota has a chance to head to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship with a win Saturday.
1. Gordon rewriting the record books
Week 14 remains one of the most important weeks in the college football season as in-state rivalries and crucial division games are played. This week several teams will look to clinch their division and wrap up their last game of the season.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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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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.
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.
1. Is Joel Stave the final answer at quarterback?
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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