Badgers Football Schedule For 2014-2015

Posted on May 20, 2013 by agreenbaypackersfan

For Badger football fanatics hoping to make plans in advance, the Big Ten has obliged. The conference released the team’s 2014-15 schedule on Thursday, revealing an eagerly anticipated season of changes.

Just three seasons after its debut, the Leaders and Legends divisional split will be dubbed East and West in 2014. The renaming comes along with the welcoming of Maryland and Rutgers into the conference, both part of the extensive realignment going on in recent off-seasons. Wisconsin meets the pair following an October 18th bye, facing Maryland at home on the 25th before traveling to New Brunswick on November 1st. It will be the Terrapins first visit to Camp Randall in school history, while the Badgers and the Scarlet Knights have never met on the football pitch.

The Badgers will represent the West division in 2014, joining Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Purdue, and Northwestern. A trip to Evanston on October 4th is Wisconsin’s first game of the year against a fellow West team. A home game against Illinois a week later is their last divisional match-up until a November 8 game at Purdue. They finish out the season with three more meetings with West opponents following that, Nebraska on the 15th, Iowa on the 22nd, and Minnesota on the 29th.

The Big Ten Championship December 6 – 2014

Five of the seven teams facing Wisconsin in the first half of the 2014 season will be out of conference. An August 30th season opener is yet to have an opponent scheduled, though it will be an away game at a non-conference location. The Badgers play their home opener on September 6th against Western Illinois. Another undetermined team will greet the Badgers in their second game away from Madison on September 13th, preceding back-to-back home games against Bowling Green and Southern Florida on the 20th and 27th, respectively.

Wisconsin Badgers 2014 Football Schedule

August

30th – at TBA

September

6th – vs. Western Illinois

13th – at TBA

20th – vs. Bowling Green
27th – vs. University of Southern Florida

October

4th – at Northwestern
11th – vs. Illinois
18th – Bye
25th – vs. Maryland

November

1st – at Rutgers
8th – at Purdue
15th – vs. Nebraska
22nd – at Iowa
29th – vs. Minnesota

Badgers Kenzel Doe Stands Out During Spring Game

Posted on April 23, 2013 by agreenbaypackersfan

Who will be the number two wideout when the Badgers take the field at Camp Randall in 2013? Did we get a chance to see who is willing to try for the role when Wisconsin played their annual Spring Game? Yes we did. A stand out player was none other than Kenzel Doe. Kenzel is smaller than some at his position, but he looked solid when knocked down. Doe stands at 5’8″, 171lbs. That’s not NFL calibur height, but under the right circumstances, plenty tall for college football. Doe did manage one catch in the 2012 Rose Bowl, but he wants so much more.

His punt return for a TD against Utah State earned him special teams player of the week honors. Otherwise, Doe may find just a handfull of passes coming his way from game to game. He’s one of Wisconsin’s many kick off returners as well. Kenzel has another two years of college ball ahead of him. Fans sure liked what they saw at the Spring Game. Perhaps he will earn himself a spot on the Badgers first string.

Posted on March 26, 2013 by agreenbaypackersfan

I was scanning the most up to date Badgers football 2013 roster, and noticed a home town kid on the roster. Freshman Brett Nethery is a punter, and he’s from Greendale Wisconsin, my current home town. As a junior, he managed over forty yards per punt. On top of that, he amassed 400+ yards receiving. In his senior year, Brett upped his average punt distance by another five yards. This kid pinned Greendale Panthers opponents back, way back. Nethery will be competing against Matt Salerno from Chatfield MN. Salerno has a lower average when it comes to punting distance, but can also kick field goals. Both of these young men will be working behind Drew Meyer, the red shirt sophomore.

Drew Meyer booted his career best punt during the Big Ten Championship game. That one went for 61 yards. He’s managed to get the ball inside the 20 with regularity, and averages well over 40 yards per punt in game time situations. Let’s hope that the Badgers won’t need much of a punters services in 2013. If they do, they have three solid kids to choose from.

Best Collge Football City in USA is Madison Wisconsin

Posted on September 25, 2012 by agreenbaypackersfan

Madison has been rated the best college football city in America. USA Today conducted the poll that determined the Badgers home-town was the greatest in the land for the sport, hiring a number of sports writers from across the country to create a list of fifteen finalists that would be voted upon by users of the news source’s website. The Wisconsin capital received 50,000 unique votes during the poll, beating out Blacksburg, Virginia, Columbus, Ohio, and Athens, Georgia, who managed second, third, and fourth, respectively.

The city’s success in the rating was a grass-roots effort according to Judy Frankel, the public relations and communications manager for the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau. Frankel told reporters that the group did all it could to get out the vote for Wisconsin fans. She said that she was confident in the efforts when USA Today called her to inform her that the city was leading the pack from the start. Various articles regarding the outcome of the poll credited Madison’s game day atmosphere as one of its most enticing features, one writer going so far as to say that it felt like a family reunion every Saturday.

Badgers Lose to Oregon State in Season Opener

Posted on September 14, 2012 by agreenbaypackersfan

The Wisconsin Badgers suffered their first loss of the season two weeks ago, giving up an unexpected upset to an unranked Oregon State team. Danny O’Brien led the team’s offense to just 207 total yards, the worst in five years, managing just s single touchdown the entire day. Star running-back Montee Ball was given just sixty-one yards on fifteen carries and no touchdowns. The lack of a score halts the Heisman Trophy finalist’s touchdown streak at twenty-one games. With his longest gain being just fifteen yards on a play in the fourth quarter, it was one of Ball’s worst showings of his career with the Badgers.

Ball wasn’t the only one struggling against the Beavers outstanding defensive effort. O’Brien was sacked three times during the game, a sorry sign of what was once one of the most protective defensive lines in the country. The transfer quarterback also threw his first interception in a Badgers uniform on Saturday, one of two forced turnovers by the Beavers on the day. The receiving core on the Wisconsin line also had trouble bringing down big plays, wide-receiver Jacob Pedersen representing the only passing touchdown of the day, an eleven-yard pass with a minute-an-a-half remaining.

Wisconsin’s defensive performance left as much to be desired as did their counterparts on the other side of the ball. Oregon State quarterback Sean Mannion threw for over 275 yards against a confused Badgers secondary that allowed him to connect on twenty-nine passes. Wisconsin especially struggled to hold-down coverage on wide receivers Markus Wheaton and Brandin Cooks. The pair combined for an impressive fourteen catches for 147 yards and a touchdown.

Luckily for the Badgers, the Beavers ground game could not keep pace with the passing success. With just seventy-eight yards rushing, Oregon State had a similarly lack-luster ground performance as did their opponents. That inability to find consistency with the run may have saved the Badgers an even larger deficit of defeat, as they allowed the Beavers past the thirty-five yard line four times in the first half, though managed to give up just a field-goal before halftime. Pedersen’s last minute touchdown saved the Badgers their first shutout

Badgers Football Team 2012 Ranking

Posted on August 22, 2012 by agreenbaypackersfan

The Wisconsin Badgers football team finished the 2011 season ranked tenth. That was one spot ahead of their eleventh place ranking at the beginning of that year. In 2012, Wisconsin will start at twelfth according to the Associated Press this week, continuing this decade of high flying preseason rankings for the team.The heartbreaking loss in last year’s Rose Bowl to Oregon seems to have kept Wisconsin from acquiring more first place votes than they did. The Ducks wound up with a fifth place ranking this season, joining USC, Alabama, LSU, and Oklahoma in the top five.

As for the Big-Ten, Michigan is the only team in the conference ranked higher than the Badgers, receiving an eighth place spot for the beginning of the 2012 season. Michigan State, Nebraska, and OhioState were also included in the top twenty-five, earning thirteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth seeds, respectively.

Associated Press 2012 Preseason NCAA Football Ranking Poll

1. USC
2. Alabama
3. LSU
4. Oklahoma
5. Oregon
6. Georgia
7. FloridaState
8. Michigan
9. South Carolina
10. Arkansas
11. West Virginia
12. Wisconsin Badgers
13. Michigan State
14. Clemson
15. Texas
16. Virginia Tech
17. Nebraska
18. Ohio State
19. OklahomaState
20. TCU
21. Stanford
22. KansasState
23. Florida
24. BoiseState
25. Louisville

Badgers Quarterbacks Compete for Starting Spot

Posted on August 14, 2012 by agreenbaypackersfan

Despite his above-average credentials from Maryland, recent Wisconsin transfer Danny O’Brien does not have the vacant quarterback position locked-up. Newly appointed Badger offensive coordinator Matt Canada told reporters on Wednesday that all four competing quarterbacks for the starting spot will have an equal opportunity to prove why they deserve that honor. This plays down the speculation that the experienced O’Brien will have an easy time slipping Russell Wilson’s former position.Many experts and fans expected the team to react to an empty starting quarterback spot in a way similar to that of last off-season, when the Badgers quickly filled the hole with Wilson, a first-year transfer. Though, it appears that this training camp will be different, as O’Brien, Joel Stave, Joe Brennan, and Curt Phillips have all ran drills.

While all four signal-callers are getting practice time, Canada mostly answered questions regarding Phillips and O’Brien, alluding to the pair’s advantages over their younger counterparts. Both Stave and Brennan are former redshirt underclassmen; Stave sitting-out his freshman year in the hopes of replacing Wilson in 2012, though his inexperience has seemingly hurt his chances this year. Meanwhile, Brennan will be a junior this season, but after multiple injuries in previous years, his health is questionable.

Phillips also has been the victim of a number of injury setbacks since joining the team in 2008. He last appeared on the field in 2009, but a troubled ACL has kept him on the bench since then. This year, however, Phillips seems to have finally healed and strengthened enough to compete with O’Brien. Though the senior does have time-to-make-up, as he sat out contact drills for the past few months, and only just put on pads this Wednesday.

For O’Brien, as long as he can stay consistently good in practice, the job is his. Canada has already said that the transfer has the added benefit of experience on the collegiate level from Maryland, and was even explicit enough to say that that experience would help his chances this fall.

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