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IOWA CITY, Iowa – Few Wisconsin defenses in recent memory have struggled to stop the run the way the Badgers did Saturday night at Iowa.
The Hawkeyes pounded out 329 yards in 54 carries in a 42-10 victory at Kinnick Stadium. They averaged 6.1 yards per run. Junior running back Kaleb Johnson, who entered play as the nation’s second-leading rusher, ran for 135 yards in 24 carries, a 5.6-yard average, and scored three touchdowns.
You have to go back more than a decade to find the last time the Badgers’ defense gave up that many yards and you have to go back almost 20 years to find the last time it happened in a Big Ten game.
Both games were memorable affairs. Here are the details.
Russell Wilson led UW in a wild game in Pasadena, California. The Badgers and Ducks combined for more than 1,100 yards of total offense and Oregon scored a 45-38 victory.
The Ducks’ rushing numbers that day were 345 yards in 40 runs, an average of 8.6 yards per carry. The big gains came from the legs of quarterback Darron Thomas, who ran for touchdowns of 91 and 64 yards.
The last time the Badgers gave up more rushing yards in a Big Ten game came against Minnesota on Oct. 15, 2005. The Gophers finished with 411 yards in 63 runs for an average of 6.5 yards per carry.
But all those yards could not carry Minnesota to victory.
This is the game UW fans remember for Jonathan Casillas’ punt block in the final seconds that was recovered in the end zone by Ben Strickland. Wisconsin won, 38-34.
The Badgers had trouble stuffing the run that season. The week before UW’s memorable win over the Gophers it allowed 313 rushing yards in a 51-48 loss to Northwestern.
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Publish date : 2024-11-03 15:52:11
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