
Montee Ball ran for 202 yards and three touchdowns and the Badgers scored seven touchdowns on their first nine possessions, blowing out Nebraska 70-31 to win their third straight Big Ten title on Saturday night. Wisconsin will be the first five-loss team to play in the Rose Bowl and is the first school to represent the league in three consecutive Rose Bowls since Michigan in the late 1970s. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and his players were left shaking their heads as a third league championship game opportunity faded away. This was the second time this year that the Huskers have totally been dismantled by a Big Ten team first Ohio State and now Wisconsin. Husker nation has yet another season under Bo Pelini whose expertise is defense in which the Blackshirts have been very average. The Huskers inability to make defensive adjustments during games has been an issue for a few years now. The defense scheme that isn't aggressive or attacking in any way has Husker fans scratching their heads. When you see Bo making one of those faces on the sideline after a bad play, it's the same face I see from Husker fans every time he sends out a Husker team that looks unprepared to play the game. It's time we start asking the question, is Bo Pelini the right person for this job?
Game Highlights .... Game Stats
December 1, 2012
- Wisconsin's fist of a physical offense — prepared, diverse, focused popped Nebraska's six-week winning bubble with the swift, blunt force of a Badger toppling an ant hill.
- In a game where Nebraska basically needed to score almost every possession to keep pace with Wisconsin, the Huskers showed in the second quarter Saturday night that they wasn't ready to do it.
- It seems it's either the Capital One Bowl or the Outback Bowl for the Huskers after Wisconsin demolished them in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night.
- B1G black eye: Badgers blast Huskers
- The Blackshirts were burned for 640 total yards including 539 on the ground in a 70-31 loss to Wisconsin.
- People started to file out of the Nebraska section of the north end zone at Lucas Oil Stadium with one second remaining in the first half. They, like the Huskers themselves, didn’t look like they were coming back.
- Nebraska coach Bo Pelini spent nearly four hours watching Saturday night's debacle.He needed less than 10 minutes to pin the blame on himself.


#16 Huskers vs. #7 Georgia
Capital One Bowl
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
1:00 PM (EST) ABC
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2012 Schedule 10 - 4
09/01 NU 42 So. Miss 20
09/08 UCLA 36 NU 30
09/15 NU 42 Arkansas St 13
09/22 NU 73 Idaho State 7
09/29 NU 30 Wisconsin 27
10/06 Ohio State 63 NU 38
10/20 NU 29 Northwestern 28
10/27 NU 23 Michigan 9
11/03 NU 28 Michigan St 24
11/10 NU 32 Penn State 23
11/17 NU 38 Minnesota 14
11/23 NU 13 Iowa 7
12/01 Wisconsin 70 NU 31
01/01 Georgia 45 NU 31
Big 10 Standings
Conf. Overall |
Legends W - L W - L
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Nebraskaa Michigan Northwestern Michigan St. Iowa Minnesota
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7 - 1 6 - 2 5 - 3 3 - 5 2 - 6 2 - 6 |
10 - 3 8 - 4 9 - 3 6 - 6 4 - 8 6 - 6 |
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Conf. Overall |
Leaders W - L W - L
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Ohio State Penn State Wisconsin Purdue Indiana Illinois
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8 - 0 6 - 2 4 - 4 3 - 5 2 - 6 0 - 8 |
12 - 0 8 - 4 8 - 5 6 - 6 4 - 8 2 - 10 |
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