Wisconsin -5.5 at TSUN (ov/un 66.5) Noon ET, ESPN

[cincibuck]

Who's dumber? The M*ch*g*n defense or the OSU fan who pins their Rose Bowl hopes on them?

Tackle somebody!!!

Well, as one of the later I can tell you, in self defense, that the Michigan fan has choices. I don't.

 

[Coqui]

Well there was only 1 good thing to take from this game. Michigan didn't give up in the 2nd half when it was easy to do so down 0-24 at the half. Other than that it was rough watching Wisconsin run, run, and run some more. It kills you as a fan that Wisconsin had 550+ yards.........and only threw once in the 2nd half. Also I think Tolzein went 14-15. Denard had a decent game but you can tell that the hits are taking a toll on him. I'm glad he hasn't been seriously injured at this point.

Horrible luck to have to play the two hardest hitting defenses in the Big 10 back to back.

 

[gracelhink]

Rivals Free

Grid bits

Michigan sophomore QB Denard Robinson became the first player in NCAA history with 1,500 rushing yards and 1,500 passing yards in Saturday's loss to Wisconsin. He also set an NCAA single-season record for rushing yards by a quarterback, with 1,538; the record had been 1,494 by Air Force's Beau Morgan in 1996. Thing is, Robinson may not even hold the record when the season is over. He has two games left (the regular-season finale against Ohio State, then a bowl game) and should get that figure to around 1,800 or so yards. Auburn's Cameron Newton has three games left (against Alabama in the regular-season finale, against South Carolina in the SEC championship game and a bowl), and he currently has 1,297 yards. Can Newton catch Robinson? At the least, two players are going to surpass Morgan's old mark.

Staying with the Michigan-Wisconsin game, you can add Michigan's Rich Rodriguez to the list of coaches who won't be sending Badgers coach Bret Bielema a Christmas card. Earlier this season, then-Minnesota coach Tim Brewster admonished Bielema for what Brewster thought was an unnecessary two-point conversion in the fourth quarter of a Wisconsin rout. Saturday, Bielema took a few shots at Rodriguez and his program. Wisconsin ran for 357 yards in beating the Wolverines, and Bielema said, "What we do isn't pretty. A lot of places, there's a certain emphasis on being pretty and being individualized on players." Later, asked about Robinson's performance (he gained 360 yards of total offense), Bielema said, "For them, that's great. We would never recruit to that." Wisconsin never would recruit a stud player who can put up big stats? Yeah, OK, coach, I guess Ron Dayne didn't have two 1,800-yard seasons. Hey, maybe Bielema's been outside shoveling snow one too many times when it's 3 degrees with a wind chill of minus-14. It's one thing to take a shot at an opponent; it's another to say something stupid.

Obviously some inside recruiting warfare is being aired in the public domain. It is tough to like BB, but this trashing in the Rival's article is a bit much.
What apalls me is that the writer Mike Huguenin, uses Ron Dayne, a RB recruit from 1995, during the Barry Alvarez era, (i.e. before Bielema was at Wisconsin in 2004 or Head coach in 2005) to try to justify his accusation of duplicity and hypocrisy.