Rule number one of college football, no one is safe. In this game, teams can’t afford to take days off, and this week is no different. The nonconference schedule is drawing to a close. Will the Big Ten salvage its reputation? Will the SEC continue its streak of cruel and unusual punishment? Read on to find out. To the football!
The Big Ten hasn’t had the best three weeks in the nonconference season, with all teams going a combined 1-10 against Power 5 conferences. Of course, we now play the “Power rank the Big Ten” game, also known as “How embarrassing was your out-of-conference loss?”
Bowling Green (2-1) had a rough start for the season, losing its starting quarterback, 2013 MAC Championship game MVP Matt Johnson, for the year in a 59-31 loss to Western Kentucky (1-2), but has rebounded to win their next two in his absence.
1) Wanted: Melvin Gordon
Thanks to his big leg and even bigger personality, freshman kicker Rafael Gaglianone is quickly winning over Wisconsin Badgers players and fans alike.
Over the past few years, an unfortunate narrative for Badger football has emerged. Usually the team operates as a motley crew of bruisers, but if that group plays in a big game to the last minute, something will go terribly wrong.
The No. 4 Badgers (8-0) will play their final nonconference matches this weekend in the Pac-12/Big Ten Showcase hosted in Seattle. Wisconsin plays No. 10 USC (6-2) Thursday night and No. 5 Washington (9-0) Friday night.
After an up-and-down weekend that saw the Badgers’ seven-game winning streak come to an end, No. 13 Wisconsin (7-1-0) has had time to reflect as it prepares for another Big Ten opponent this weekend.
Coming off a tough 3-2 overtime defeat, the Badgers (1-4-0) will look to get their season back on track Friday against St. John’s (1-3-2).
After following up a gut-wrenching, opening-week loss with a lopsided win at home, Wisconsin has an opportunity to stabilize itself in its third contest of the season against visiting Bowling Green Saturday.
College football season is in full swing, which means the upsets have started rolling in like a rising tide, but not a Crimson Tide (screw you Alabama). Last Saturday saw four ranked teams bite the dust. Georgia, USC, Virginia Tech and Louisville.
We’re now three full weeks into the 2014 college football season. That has given us enough time to peruse box scores, watch plenty of highlights and formulate some legitimate Heisman Trophy watch lists rather than preseason predictions that often turn out to be wildly incorrect. Check back in the following weeks for updated rankings.
Deer Cardinal,
I’m sure many of you reading this are “owners” of fancy football clubs. Apparently this is the new Internet craze of millennials. Well I’m here to tell you that this fancy fantasy world you’re all caught up in needs to be brought back to utilitarian reality.
Women’s Soccer
The Big Ten is all but guaranteed to not have a team in the new College Football Playoff (cue the muffled sobbing sound from the Midwest). More surprisingly, the SEC might not have a representative in the Playoff either this January.
Your local child abuser and woman beater just got arrested the other day.
It was certainly an emotional three-day stretch for the Badgers.
The national spotlight provided a thriller at the McClimon Complex on Friday night.
The No. 4 Wisconsin volleyball team (8-0) continued the impressive start to their season by staying undefeated and winning the HotelRed Invitational at the UW Field House.
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