Saturday NCAA: Wisconsin Badgers at Indiana Hoosiers
Wisconsin is back in the Top 25 after a few weeks out of the polls, but the Badgers are just playing for bowl position at this point with the Big Ten title out of reach. Indiana would love to get bowl eligible, but the Hoosiers have to win two of their final three games after choking away a game last week to Iowa.
The Badgers are 10.5-point betting favorites on WagerWeb.com. They have won four in a row in this series and have outscored Indiana 140-40 in the last three meetings.
Indiana is not a good team defending the run, so we could see a big dose of Wisconsin RB John Clay all day Saturday. Clay leads the Big Ten in rushing and is 20th nationally, averaging 104.9 yards per game. The sophomore is averaging 4.7 yards per carry and has 10 touchdowns. He rushed for 123 yards and three touchdowns last week against Purdue. Wisconsin, which is averaging 194.6 rushing ypg on the season, ran on 17 of its first 18 plays from scrimmage and 53 of its 72 plays overall.
“We have to tackle him,” Indiana coach Bill Lynch said of Clay. “We’re going to have to gang-tackle him, because he can bounce off you if you just count on one guy trying to tackle him all day.”
In the Badgers’ two losses this year, Clay has 134 yards and no scores. During Clay’s 21-game career, 17 of his 19 scores have come in Wisconsin’s 13 wins.
The Hoosiers, meanwhile, have led in four of their past five conference games. But they have been outscored 47-3 in the past two second halves. Last week they were up on Iowa 14-0 and ready to punch another TD in before an interception return for a TD changed that game. Indiana has given up at least 29 points in five of its last six games.
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