WISCONSIN FOOTBALL 3 Consecutive Big Ten Championships (2010-12)
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WISCONSIN FOOTBALL 3 Consecutive Big Ten Championships (2010-12) . 5 BCS Bowl Games . 11 Consecutive Bowl Games . 16 First-Team All-Americans Since 2000 #21/21 WISCONSIN (1-0) VS. TENNESSEE TECH (1-0) 2013 SCHEDULE/RESULTS SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, 2013 . 11:01 A.M. (CT) . MADISON, WIS. CAMP RANDALL STADIUM (1-0, 0-0 BIG TEN) DATE OPPONENT TIME TV Location ................................ Madison, Wis. TENNESSEE TECH Site ...........................Camp Randall Stadium Rankings (TSN/FCS Coaches) ..........RV/RV Aug. 31 UMASS W, 45-0 BTN Capacity ............................................80,321 Record (OVC) ................................1-0 (0-0) Head Coach ..........................Watson Brown Sept. 7 TENNESSEE TECH 11 a.m. BTN Surface...........................................FieldTurf Record at TTU (Years) ...............29-39 (7th) Sept. 14 at Arizona State 9:30 p.m. TV .............................................................. BTN All-Time Series ..................... First meeting Sept. 21 PURDUE* TBA WISCONSIN In Madison ............................................N/A Sept. 28 at Ohio State* 7 p.m. Rankings (AP/Coaches) .....................21/21 In Cookeville.........................................N/A Record (Big Ten) ...........................1-0 (0-0) Oct. 12 NORTHWESTERN* 2:30 p.m. Last Meeting.........................................N/A Head Coach ......................... Gary Andersen Oct. 19 at Illinois* 7 p.m. BTN Record at WIS (Years) ....................1-0 (1st) Nov. 2 at Iowa* TBA Nov. 9 BYU TBA BADGERS SEEK 2-0 START Nov. 16 INDIANA* TBA After opening the season with a convincing 45-0 win Nov. 23 at Minnesota* TBA over UMass last Saturday, No. 21/21 Wisconsin looks to improve to 2-0 under first-year head coach Gary Nov. 30 PENN STATE* TBA Andersen when the Badgers host Tennessee Tech at 11 All times Central. Home games in BOLD CAPS and played at a.m. Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium. Camp Randall Stadium. * Big Ten Conference game KEY NOTES TO CONSIDER TV: BTN Running backs Melvin Gordon (144 yards), James White (143) and Corey Clement (101) each surpassed . Play-by-Play ........................................................Kevin Kugler the 100-yard mark in last Saturday’s season-opening . Analyst ................................................................Derek Rackley win, marking the third time in school history that UW . Online: BTN2Go.com produced three 100-yard rushers in the same game. Mobile App: BTN2Go (iOS/Android) With his 143-yard performance, senior RB James White RADIO: BADGER SPORTS NETWORK became the nation’s leading active rusher among FBS running backs and now has 2,714 yards for his career. Senior RB James White ran for 143 . Play-by-Play ...........................................................Matt Lepay yards against UMass, helping give UW . Analysts ........................................Mike Lucas, Mark Tauscher Clement became the first UW true freshman to rush for a trio of 100-yard rushers at running . Sideline Reporter ............................................... Patrick Herb 100 yards in a season opener since the NCAA began back for the second time in the Bad- allowing freshman participation in 1972. Satellite: Sirius 139, XM 191 gers’ last three games. Online: BadgerSportsNetwork.com The Badgers benefitted from big plays on offense against . Mobile App: iHeartRadio (search WIBA-AM) UMass and exploded for four scoring plays of more than 50 yards, just the fourth such performance by an FBS TWITTER: #BADGERS team in the last 10 seasons. (see more, Page 2) . Official Account ...........................................@BadgerFootball Wisconsin has started 2-0 in 10 of the last 11 seasons and has won its first two home games . Play-by-Play Updates .....................................@BadgersLive in each of the last nine years. The last time UW failed to improve to 2-0 at home was 2003. UW’s 23-5 loss to UNLV on Sept. 13, 2003 also marks the Badgers’ last non-conference loss ONLINE: UWBADGERS.COM at Camp Randall Stadium. Wisconsin has won 27 consecutive home games against non-con- UWBadgers.com offers the most complete and compre- ference foes. That is the second-longest active streak among FBS teams and trails only LSU hensive coverage of the Badgers on gameday via the live (37), which hasn’t lost a non-conference home game since Sept. 1, 2001. Gameday Blog and GameTracker live stats. Badgers legend Ron Dayne returns to the field at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday to APP: BADGER GAMEDAY be recognized for his induction to the College Football Hall of Fame as part of the class of Improved for the 2013 season, the 2013. Dayne, the NCAA’s all-time leading rusher, will be introduced to the crowd during Badger Gameday app for iPhone, Saturday’s game. iPad and Android devices offers fans a wide variety of valuable information on NUMBERS TO KNOW the Badgers — home and away. The Senior RB James White’s average of 13.0 yards per carry in last Saturday’s updated app now covers Wisconsin season opener was the best by any FBS player in Week 1 of the season (min. men’s and women’s basketball and 13.0 10 carries). It also improved White’s school-record career rushing average to men’s and women’s hockey, as well. The free app is available 6.3 yards per carry, which ranks second among active FBS running backs. for download in the App Store and Google Play. Wisconsin played the first 1,170 games in its history without having three running backs reach the 100-yard plateau in the same game. The 1,170 Badgers have now done so twice in their last three games after Gordon, White and Montee Ball accomplished the feat in last year’s Big Ten championship game and Gordon, White and Clement did so against UMass. Football Contact: Brian Lucas . Offi ce: 608-263-5052 . Cell: 608-513-3987 . E-mail: [email protected] Secondary Football Contact: Brian Mason . Offi ce: 608-262-2311 . Cell: 608-279-8659 . E-mail: [email protected] Athletic Communications Office . University of Wisconsin . Kellner Hall . 1440 Monroe Street . Madison, WI 53711 GAME 2: WISCONSIN VS. TENNESSEE TECH GENERAL NOTES GET TO KNOW GARY WISCONSIN QUICK FACTS An explosive effort on offense and a suffocating effort on HEAD COACH GARY ANDERSEN defense in Saturday’s 45-0 victory over UMass made a winner Years Coached: 6th season of Gary Andersen in his debut as Wisconsin’s head coach. Alma Mater: Utah, 1986 Andersen became the 21st coach in UW history to win Career Record: 31-31 (.500) his Badgers debut and joined Ivy Williamson (41-0 vs. Record at Wisconsin: 1st season Marquette in 1949) and Milt Bruhn (41-0 vs. Marquette in Big Ten Record: 1st season 1956) as the only modern-era UW coaches to score a shutout Bowl Record: 1-1 (.500) in their first game at the helm. ASSISTANT COACHES Andersen is the 10th head coach to take the reins of the UW . Dave Aranda (Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers) program in the modern era. Of the previous nine, only two . Andy Ludwig (Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks) (Dave McClain in 1978 and Bret Bielema in 2006) have won . Chris Beatty (Wide Receivers) their first two games at the helm of the Badgers program. Bill Busch (Safeties) Andersen improved his head coaching record to 31-31 with . Jeff Genyk (Tight Ends/Special Teams Coordinator) Saturday’s win over UMass and can raise his career winning percentage above .500 for the first . Thomas Hammock (Asst. HC/RBs/Recruiting Coord.) time with a victory over Tennessee Tech. Chad Kauha’aha’a (Defensive Line) Andersen is 17-3 (.850) in his last 20 games as a head coach, dating back to his time at Utah . Ben Strickland (Cornerbacks) State. One of those losses is the 16-14 setback his Utah State team endured at the hands of the . T.J. Woods (Offensive Line) Badgers last season at Camp Randall Stadium. TEAM INFORMATION Andersen, 49, is in his first season as Wisconsin’s head coach after being hired on Dec. 20, 2012 Overall Record: 8-6 2012. He spent the last four seasons at Utah State, leading the Aggies to a school-record 11 2012 Big Ten Record (Finish): 4-4 (3rd, Leaders) wins in 2012 and a No. 16 ranking in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll. 2012 Big Ten Championship Game: W, 70-31 vs. Nebraska Andersen has brought in seven new assistant coaches to join running backs coach 2012 Bowl: Lost to No. 8 Stanford, 20-14 (Rose) Thomas and cornerbacks coach , who were retained from the previous 2012 Final Rank (AP/Coaches): RV/RV Hammock Ben Strickland staff. New to the staff are offensive coordinator (QB), defensive coordinator Starters Returning/Lost 14/8 Andy Ludwig (LB) and assistants (WR), (S), (TE), Offensive Starters Returning/Lost 8/3 Dave Aranda Chris Beatty Bill Busch Jeff Genyk Chad (DL) and (OL). Returning: QB Stave, FB Watt, WR Abbrederis, Kauha’aha’a T.J. Woods TE Pedersen, TE Wozniak, LG Groy, RG Costigan, RT Havenstein FOR STARTERS third downs (73.3%) against Washington Lost: RB M. Ball, LT Wagner, C Frederick State on Sept. 1, 2007. Defensive Starters Returning/Lost 6/5 With its 45-0 victory over UMass, The Badgers racked up 393 rushing yards, Returning: DT Allen, DT Hemer, DE Muldoon, Wisconsin won its 16th-consecutive giving them at least 300 yards for the 11th LB E. Armstrong, LB Borland, FS Southward season-opener, a run that ties UW with time in the last four seasons. Lost: DE D. Gilbert, LB Taylor, CB Cromartie, USC for the third-longest active streak in CB Smith, SS Johnson the FBS, trailing only Nebraska (28) and UW amassed 598 yards of total offense, Letterwinners Returning/Lost 51/11 Florida (24). the 13th time the Badgers have finished Offensive Letterwinners Returning/Lost 28/5 The Badgers have now won 18 consecutive with at least 500 offensive yards in the last Defensive Letterwinners Returning/Lost 19/6 home openers at Camp Randall Stadium, four seasons.