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Wisconsin Badgers football

Wisconsin Badgers football
2016 Wisconsin Badgers football team
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First season 1889
Athletic director Barry Alvarez
Head coach Paul Chryst
2nd year, 21–6 (.778)
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
Current uniform
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Colors Cardinal and White
         
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
Website UWBadgers.com
Wisconsin Badgers in the NFL
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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