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Column: Impact of Markuson’s firing yet to be seen

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 13, 2012

When any sports season concludes, one of the most interesting exercises is to look back at defining moments. Sometimes, anybody that’s watching knows one when they see it live. Other times, the moments are shrouded and only become apparent in their importance much later. Occasionally, something appears to be a season-defining moment and it turns out not to be.

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O-line ready to bounce back under new coach

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 11, 2012

After each of the first two games of this season, redshirt junior center Travis Frederick said the offensive line was struggling to find its way more than he expected it to, despite working in new regular starters at three positions.

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Bielema responds to Markuson firing

By Peter Geppert and Liz Puibello | Sep. 11, 2012

Gut check time is coming earlier than normal this year for the Wisconsin football team (1-1 overall). After enduring their only two regular season losses last season in heartbreaking fashion during the first pair of true road games, the Badgers must now put themselves back together after a demoralizing 10-7 road defeat to Oregon State (1-0 overall) on Saturday.

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Badger offense horrid in defeat

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 11, 2012

CORVALLIS, Ore.—No matter how you slice it, the Badgers’ (1-1 overall) offensive performance Saturday was one of the poorest in recent memory.

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Column: Bielema made right move to let go of O-line coach

By Matt Masterson | Sep. 11, 2012

Coaches don’t get fired after two games. It just doesn’t happen. Excuses are made, scapegoats are blamed, but no one loses his job after just two games. Right?

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Badgers remove O-line coach Markuson

By Matt Masterson and Andy Van Sistine | Sep. 9, 2012

After two less-than-stellar offensive performances this season, the Badgers have released offensive line coach Mike Markuson, according to Tom Mulhern of the Wisconsin State Journal.

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Walker injury puts player safety back in the spotlight

By Matthew Kleist | Sep. 9, 2012

I could spend the next 600 or so words talking about whatever you call what we watched Saturday afternoon (I’m told that was supposed to be football), but I’m not. We all know what happened and it is just not worth the effort.

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Badgers stumble against Oregon State

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 9, 2012

Corvallis, Ore.—Say what you will about Wisconsin’s schedule each year, but head coach Bret Bielema entered Saturday’s game against Oregon State 25-0 in regular season, non-conference games.

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Badgers face test at OSU

By Ryan Hill | Sep. 7, 2012

The Wisconsin Badgers (1-0 overall) are not concerned one bit.

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Badgers’ uninspired start may be the key to a successful season

By Max Sternberg | Sep. 6, 2012

The 2012 opener at Camp Randall is in the books and Wisconsin football remains undefeated. While it was only a five-point victory over an FCS opponent, the Badgers won nonetheless.

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Badgers turn to underclassmen for help on the outside

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 6, 2012

Through spring practice and fall camp, wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni consistently acknowledged he had a group that lacked experience beyond redshirt junior Jared Abbrederis.

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Peaks and valleys fill Badgers' first victory

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 5, 2012

Stop me if you’ve heard this at some point during the week, but the Badger football squad didn’t exactly turn in a Picasso on Saturday against Northern Iowa.

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Column: Big Ten football not ready to match SEC

By Matt Masterson and Maureen Backman | Sep. 5, 2012

How far apart are the Big Ten and the SEC?

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Wisconsin offense shows promise, torpor in victory

By Parker Gabriel | Sep. 5, 2012

At first-year offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s introductory press conference in January, he said his philosophy would be to continue running “a Wisconsin offense.” This implication is well known in Badger country as a powerful rushing attack behind a big, talented offensive line. Recently, the “Wisconsin offense” also means putting up a ton of points.

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Debut down to the wire

By Ryan Hill | Sep. 5, 2012

A win is a win. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema and numerous Badger players echoed this cliché following Wisconsin’s (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) 26-21 victory over FCS opponent Northern Iowa (0-1 overall, 0-0 Missouri Valley Conference) Saturday afternoon in the first game of the 2012 season.

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Bielema focused on Oregon State

By Peter Geppert | Sep. 5, 2012

Expectations can often be deceiving. For Wisconsin football (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) and head coach Bret Bielema, the team’s high expectations proved to be a little misleading this past weekend as the Badgers pulled out a 26-21 nail biter over Northern Iowa (0-1 overall, 0-0 Missouri Valley Conference). With many projecting the preseason No. 12 Badgers to roll to their 15th consecutive season-opening win, it took a timely fourth quarter pass deflection by redshirt junior defensive lineman Ethan Hemer on a fourth-and-one to pull out the win.

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Wisconsin set to kick off 2012-'13 season against Northern Iowa

By Parker Gabriel and Abram Shanedling | Sep. 1, 2012

When star running back Montee Ball announced he was returning to Madison for his senior season just days after the Badgers lost the 2012 Rose Bowl, a baseline of expectation was set for the 2012-’13 campaign.

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Five UW Gameday Traditions

By Matt Masterson and Vince Huth | Aug. 27, 2012

Wake up early enough to pre-game

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State of the 2012 Badger Football Team

By Matt Masterson and Vince Huth | Aug. 27, 2012

Offense

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2012 Big Ten Leaders Division Preview

By Ryan Hill | Aug. 27, 2012

About a year and a half ago, Big Ten officials spent hours on end attempting to find the perfect balance between the two, six-member divisions that the conference would be split into. Now though, the balance between the Leaders and Legends divisions already seems a bit unstable.