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Borland garners All-Big Ten award

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Wisconsin Badger linebacker Chris Borland won’t win the Butkus award as the nation’s

Chris Borland

Chris Borland

top linebacker, but he was named consensus first-team All Big-10 for the second straight season.

Borland was among six Wisconsin players who garnered first or second team honors.

Senior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis was a consensus first-team pick for the second straight season.

Tailbacks James White and Melvin Gordon were consensus second-team picks.

Guard Ryan Groy was a first-team pick by the coaches and second-team by the media.  Tackle Rob Havenstein was a second-team pick by the media and honorable mention by the coaches.

 

Borland is co-Defensive Player of the Week

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Wisconsin senior linebacker Chris Borland is the co-Defensive Player of the Week in

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Chris Borland

the Big Ten Conference this week.Borland finished with 13 tackles and matched his career best of two sacks to help Wisconsin knock off BYU 27-17 on Saturday.

Borland notched his 16th career double-digit tackle game and fourth this season.

It’s the 5th career Defensive Player of the Week honor, tying him with Penn State’s Paul Posluszny for the most in conference history.

Minnesota’s Peter Mortell won the Big Ten’s Special Teams Player of the Week.  The sophomore punter out of Green Bay (Notre Dame Academy) averaged 46 yards per punt, placing three inside the 20-yard line, to help Minnesota knock off Penn State for its eighth victory of the season.

Borland held out of practice

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Wisconsin Badger senior linebacker Chris Borland, who missed the final three-quarters

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Chris Borland

of Wisconsin’s game at Illinois after suffering a right hamstring injury, was held out of practice on Tuesday.

Coach Gary Anderson said Monday that he planned to be careful with Borland this week to ensure he would be ready for Saturday’s Big Ten matchup against the Iowa Hawkeyes in Iowa City.

Borland currently leads the Badgers in solo tackles and total tackles.

Borland & Gordon named award semifinalists

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Wisconsin senior linebacker Chris Borland is one of 16 semifinalists for the Chuck Bednarik Award, given to the outstanding defensive player of the year.

Borland is also one of 12 semifinalists for the Butkus Award, presented to the top linebacker in the country every year.

Borland also adds to the list, by being named one of 20 quarterfinalists for the Lott IMPACT trophy, which honors college football’s Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.

Borland leads a Badgers defense that ranks sixth in the country in both points and total yards allowed.  He leads UW and is tied for seventh in the Big Ten with 57 tackles.  That includes a conference-best 16-tackle effort at No. 4 Ohio State on Sept. 28.

Teammate Melvin Gordon is one of 16 semifinalists for the Maxwell Award for the collegiate player of the year.  One of four running backs on the list, Gordon leads the Big Ten and ranks fourth in the country in rushing yards per game (144.6).  He leads the country in yards per carry at 9.5 yards per carry and is tied for the Big Ten lead with 11 touchdowns.

 

French loses kicking job, will leave Madison

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After losing his job as the place-kicker of the Wisconsin Badgers, Kyle French

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Kyle French

announced that he won’t return for his senior season in Madison next year.

French made the announcement on his Facebook page on Thursday night.

“I want to personally thank everyone who has supported me throughout my career in football,” he wrote. “The coaches have asked me to forgo my senior season and focus on my career outside of football after the season.

The Facebook post came hours after UW coach Gary Anderson told reporters Jack Russell would handle field goals and extra points this week at Illinois and hat linebacker Chris Borland would be ready for kicks of 45 yards or longer.

AUDIO: Gary Anderson says Borland kicking has been in the making for a couple of weeks :18

French started the season at Wisconsin’s No. 1 kicker.  He has made 5 of 8 field-goal attempts this season and 18 of 29 for his career at Wisconsin.

 

Badgers rebound with impressive win over Wildcats (Audio)

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Wisconsin football coach Gary Anderson doesn’t like making any single game bigger than the next.  But after Saturday’s 35-6 win over 19th ranked Northwestern, Anderson was referring to his teams win as a “big win”.

AUDIO: Gary Anderson is proud of his team :18

The Badgers (4-2 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) have already lost twice and they know their margin of error is down to nothing.

When asked what qualified this as a big game, Anderson mentioned the emotional toll of the two losses his team had suffered this season.

AUDIO: Anderson was asked why this is such a big win :23

Until yesterday, Northwestern had little trouble piling up yards and scoring points.  But the Badgers held the Wildcat ground attack to 44 yards.  Northwestern completed just 43% of its passes, allowed seven sacks, went 2 for 17 on 3rd downs and punted 11 times.

The Badgers have had issues with spread offenses, but they had all the answers against the Wildcats on Saturday at Camp Randall.

AUDIO: Gary Anderson on why the offense worked so well :17

Northwestern started the day averaging 474 yards a game, but finished just over 200 yards and settled for two field goals all day.

The Badgers finished with more than 500 yards of total offense.  Melvin Gordon got his groove back in the rushing department, hitting for 172 yards.

The Badgers now play back-to-back Big Ten road games, at Illinois and at Iowa, before finishing with 3 out of the  last 4 at Camp Randall.

After slow start, Badgers roll past UMASS

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The University of Wisconsin, after a sluggish first half, rolled to a 45-0 season opening win over the University of Massachusetts Minutemen at

Joel Stave

Joel Stave

Camp Randall.

The Badgers had three running backs go over 100 yards rushing.  Redshirt sophomore Melvin Gordon (13 carries, 144 yards and 1 TD), senior James White (11 rushes for 143 yds and a TD) and freshman Corey Clement (16 rushes for 101 yards and 1 TD) combined to rush for 388 total yards on 40 carries, a 9.7 ypc average.

Joel Stave was just 4 of 11 for 36 yards and an interception in the first half, then came out in the second and went 5 of 6 for 161 yards and two touchdowns.  Two of the scores from for 65 and 57 yards to senior wideout Jared Abbrederis.

AUDIO: Joel Stave on improved second half play :11

Four of Wisconsin’s six touchdowns came on plays of 51 yards or more.  They had runs of 70 and 51 yards and pass plays of 65 and 57 yards.

AUDIO: FB Derek Watt says the Badgers have some big play ability :10

The Badgers also were solid defensively.  Wisconsin had several defensive members play in this game, yet they still preserved the shutout.

AUDIO: LB Chris Borland says it’s great to pitch the shutout :15

The Badgers gave Gary Anderson a win in his Wisconsin debut.  They’ll host Tennessee Tech this coming Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.

Badgers add more preseason honors

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Wisconsin Badger senior linebacker Chris Borland is now on the preseason watch list

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Chris Borland

for five different awards after the Lombardi and Butkus Awards announced their watch lists on Monday.

Joining Borland on the Lombardi list was UW senior offensive lineman Ryan Groy.  Groy was earlier a member of the Outland Trophy Watch list.

Aaron Gibson (1998), Wendel Bryant (2000 and 2001), Erasmus James (2004) and Joe Thomas (2005 and 2006) have all been semifinalists for the award, with Gibson and James being named finalists.  No Badger has ever won the Lombardi Award.

 

Badgers get healthier as they prepare for title game

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The Wisconsin Badgers are getting healthier as they approach Saturday’s Big

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Ten title game against Nebraska. 

Heading the list is middle linebacker Chris Borland, who missed the last two games because of a right hamstring injury.

AUDIO: Bret Bielema on Chris Borland :13

The Badgers are returning to the practice field today.  They’ll also be joined by veteran wide receiver Jared Abbrederis and right guard Kyle Costigan.

Abbrederis left the Penn State game late with a head injury.  Costigan suffered a mild concussion in that game as well.

The Badgers were off on Monday.

Borland may not be a full strength against OSU

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported last night that Wisconsin

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Badger linebacker Chris Borland suffered what’s believed to be a strained right hamstring and he may not be at full strength when the Badgers host 6th ranked Ohio State Big Ten action Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.

Borland is the Badgers team leader in sacks (4 1/2) and is second on the team in tackles (82), including 9 for loss.

Bret Bielema on Monday indicated that he didn’t plan to hold players out to save them for the Big Ten title game on Dec. 1st.

AUDIO: Bret Bielema says all hands on deck against Ohio State :12

The Badgers are headed to the Big Ten title game because Ohio State and Penn State can’t go.  But the Buckeyes can still win the Big Ten Leaders Division regular season title.  The Badgers will be trying to hand the Buckeyes their first loss of the season.