Indiana surprisingly stayed with the superior team well into the second quarter. Early in the second quarter, the Hoosiers connected on a field goal to tie it at 10, but then it was all Bucky the rest of the game.
Wisconsin received the opening kickoff and trucked its way down the field. It was all Montee Ball on the opening drive. He carried the ball all five plays for 50 yards, and with an Indiana facemask penalty included, he plowed in from a yard out to give the Badgers a 7-0 lead.
However, Indiana would come right back. Nick Turner rushed for 67 yards on the opening play of the drive and that set up a Ben Chappell 2-yard touchdown pass to Tandon Doss and all of a sudden, it was 7-7. The teams would trade field goals and it was 10-10 early in the second quarter. The Bucky train then went into demolition mode, scoring four touchdowns in the final nine minutes to move in front at the half 38-10.
Wisconsin regained the lead a few minutes later on a Ball run. The biggest play came on a third down pass of 18 yards to David Gilreath to move down to the Hoosiers 12. Ball would crash in from a yard out to put the Badgers back in front.
Mitch Ewald missed a 52-yard field goal on Indiana’s next drive and the flood gates opened. The Badgers wasted very little time in making this a 24-10 game. First, Ball rushed for 36 and then eventual Big Ten Freshman of the Year James White strolled down the left sideline for a 30-yard touchdown.
The Hoosiers then came apart. Chappell was injured on the previous drive and was unable to return. New Indiana quarterback Edward Wright-Baker fumbled on his first snap under center and Wisconsin recovered. Bucky wasted little time cashing in, as Ball rushed all five times on the five play drive that ended with a Ball 8-yard touchdown and the Badgers were in control 31-10.
Right before the half, the Bucky train was rolling along again and put one more score on the board before the end of the half. The Badgers traveled 46 yards in five plays after a 22-yard Gilreath punt return set Wisconsin up with great starting field position.
After a loss of two on first down, Scott Tolzien went 4-4 passing the ball on the drive for 48 yards and ended it with a 4-yard pass to Nick Toon in the end zone for the 38-10 lead. Amazingly, that would be the low scoring half.
It did not get any better for the Hoosiers in the second half. Freshman walk-on Jared Abbrederis returned the opening kickoff of the second half to the Indiana 24. Three plays later, Tolzien found tight end Jake Byrne in the end zone for the score.
That score did not last long, either as Louis Nzegwu sacked Wright-Baker, forcing a fumble and the Badgers recovered. Four plays later, White blasted into the end zone for another score for Bucky. White would score on the next drive too and the Badgers went ahead 59-13.
The storm kept coming against Indiana and it did not quit. Aaron Henry added a pick six after a Wisconsin field goal and it was 69-13. And if people thought it could not get any worse, it did. Backup quarterback Jon Budmayr launched a 74-yard pass to Abbrederis and third-string quarterback Nate Tice scored on a run with less than two minutes to play to close out the scoring in an 83-20 obliteration.
It was the second game of three that the Badgers would score at least 70 points. Bucky Badger ended up doing 573 push-ups during the game, so it is safe to say that he is arms were tired at game’s end.
Wisconsin would win out the remainder of the regular season and win a share of the Big Ten championship and head to Pasadena as the Big Ten’s representative at the Rose Bowl.
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