WISCONSIN FOOTBALL

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POSTGAME NOTES WISCONSIN 20, MINNESOTA 17 ▪ DEC. 19, 2020 ▪ CAMP RANDALL STADIUM ▪ MADISON, WIS.

TEAM NOTES INDIVIDUAL NOTES  Today’s game captain: senior RB Garrett Groshek  Sophomore QB Chase Wolf attempted his first passes of the season, finishing 4-for-5 for 15 yards.  Today’s game matched the latest date on which He also threw his first career touchdown pass on a Wisconsin has played a regular-season game and 4-yard throw to WR Jack Dunn in the third quarter. also marks the latest home game in program history. UW also played on Dec. 19 when it faced Carlisle  Senior RB Garrett Groshek, playing in his 46th Indian School at Chicago Coliseum to close the career game, made the first start of his career and 1896 season. rushed for a career-high 154 yards on 24 carries, including a career-long 39-yard touchdown run in . Saturday’s game was just the second played the second quarter. in the month of December at Camp Randall Stadium, which opened in 1917. The first came . Groshek is the 33rd player in school history when the Badgers hosted No. 10 Indiana two to record a 100-yard rushing performance vs. weeks ago (Dec. 5). Minnesota.  Wisconsin improved to 62-60-8 in the all-time . Groshek also caught 4 passes for 13 yards. series with Minnesota.  Senior WR Jack Dunn recorded his 1st touch-  The Badgers have won 23 of their last 26 meet- down catch of the season — and 2nd of his career ings with the Gophers, dating to 1995. — on a 4-yard pass from Wolf in the third quarter.  Dating to the 2010 season, Wisconsin has won . Dunn set career highs with 7 catches for 76 23 of its last 26 games with a traveling trophy on the yards, including a career-long 24-yard reception line vs. Iowa (Heartland Trophy), Minnesota (Paul  Junior TE Jake Ferguson hauled in 3 passes for Bunyan’s Axe) and Nebraska (Freedom Trophy). 35 yards.  improved to 55-19 (.743) in his sixth . Ferguson has caught at least 1 pass in each of season as Wisconsin’s head coach, ranking him 4th his 33 career games, extending the nation’s 4th on UW’s all-time wins list: longest active streak. WINS AS WISCONSIN COACH, ALLTIME . Ferguson’s 33 straight games with a reception Coach (Years) Wins marks the longest streak by a tight end in school 1. (1990-2005)* 119 history, passing Travis Beckum (32, 2006-08). 2. (2006-12) 68 3. Phil King (1896-1902, ’05) 65  Sophomore ILB Leo Chenal recorded a career- 4. Paul Chryst (2015-present) 55 high 13 tackles, including a career-best 5.0 TFLs and 5. Milt Bruhn (1956-66) 52 a pair of sacks. Chenal entered the game with 3.0 * Also served as coach in 2 bowl games (2012, 2014) TFLs and 2.0 sacks in his career.

 Under Chryst, Wisconsin is: . Chenal also tallied his first-career forced fumble. . 37-13 (.740) in play . Chenal is the first Badger to record at least 5.0 . 27-7 (.794) vs. the Big Ten West Division TFLs in a game since OLB Garret Dooley record- . 5-1 (.833) vs. Minnesota ed 5.0 vs. Northwestern on Sept. 30, 2017.  Wisconsin improved to 9-6 all-time in overtime . Chenal is the first UW player with at least 2.0 games, winning each of its last three such games. sacks in a game since Zack Baun recorded 2.0 . The Badgers are 2-0 against Minnesota in over- on Nov. 30, 2019 vs. Minnesota. time, also claiming a 20-17 overtime win in 1999.  Senior S Eric Burrell recorded his 1st interception  UW converted its 18th fourth-quarter, game- of the season, and 5th of his career, picking off a winning field goal in school history on a 30-yard Tanner Morgan pass in the end zone in the second kick from Collin Larsh. That kick marked the team’s quarter. first game-winning FG since Rafael Gaglianone’s  Freshman OLB Nick Herbig posted a career- 47-yarder with 3:47 left to beat LSU, 16-14, on high 7 tackles , surpassing his previous best of 5 at Setp. 3, 2016. Michigan. . Wisconsin’s last overtime game-winning FG also  Junior K Collin Larsh went 2-for-3 on field goal came from Gaglianone on a 25-yard kick to beat attempts, connecting on a 31-yarder in the fourth Auburn in the 2015 . quarter and a 30-yarder in overtime.  The Badgers held Minnesota to 17 points and 326 total yards, both qualify as the second-lowest total of the season for the Gophers. . UW entered the game leading the nation in few- est yards allowed per game (251.0 ypg) and 6th in the FBS in points allowed per game (15.4 ppg).