Wisconsin Badgers football
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| First season | 1889 | ||
| Athletic director | Barry Alvarez | ||
| Head coach |
Paul Chryst 2nd year, 21–6 (.778) |
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| Stadium | Camp Randall Stadium | ||
| Seating capacity | 80,321 | ||
| Field surface | Field Turf | ||
| Location | Madison, Wisconsin | ||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||
| Division | West | ||
| All-time record | 685–489–53 (.580) | ||
| Bowl record | 14–14 (.500) | ||
| Unclaimed nat'l titles | 3 (1906,1928,1942) | ||
| Conference titles | 14 (1896, 1897, 1901, 1906, 1912, 1952, 1959, 1962, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2012) | ||
| Division titles | 3 (2011, 2014, 2016) | ||
| Heisman winners | 2 | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 28 | ||
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| Colors | Cardinal and White |
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| Fight song | On, Wisconsin! | ||
| Mascot | Buckingham U. Badger | ||
| Marching band | University of Wisconsin Marching Band | ||
| Outfitter | Under Armour | ||
| Rivals |
Iowa Hawkeyes Minnesota Golden Gophers Nebraska Cornhuskers |
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| Website | UWBadgers.com | ||
| Wisconsin Badgers in the NFL | |
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| NFL Draft selections | |
| Total selected: | 261 |
| First picks in draft: | 0 |
| 1st Round: | 28 |
| NFL achievements | |
| Hall of Famers: | 3 |
| Pro Bowlers | 25 |
The Wisconsin Badgers football team is the intercollegiate football team of University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Badgers have competed in the Big Ten Conference since its formation in 1896. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football. Wisconsin has had two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, and have had nine former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. As of January, 2 2017, the Badgers have an all-time record of 685–489–53.
The team's nickname originates in the early history of Wisconsin. In the 1820s and 1830s, prospectors came to the state looking for minerals, primarily lead. Without shelter in the winter, the miners had to "live like badgers" in tunnels burrowed into hillsides.
The first Badger football team took the field in 1889, losing the only two games it played that season. In 1890, Wisconsin earned its first victory with a 106–0 drubbing of Whitewater Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater), still the most lopsided win in school history. However, the very next week the Badgers suffered what remains their most lopsided defeat, a humiliating 63–0 loss at the hands of the University of Minnesota. Since then, the Badgers and Gophers have met 122 times, making Wisconsin vs Minnesota the most-played rivalry in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Upon the formation of the Big Ten conference in 1896, Wisconsin became the first-ever conference champion with a 7–1–1 record. Over the next ten years, the Badgers won or shared the conference title three more times (1897, 1901, and 1906), and recorded their first undefeated season, going 9–0–0 (1901). With the exception of their second undefeated season in 1912, in which they won their fifth Big Ten title.
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