Wisconsin Badgers (8-5) vs. Stanford Cardinal (11-2)
Jan. 1, 5 p.m. ET, Pasadena, Calif. (ESPN)
Wisconsin take from Big Ten blogger Brian Bennett: In its 98 previous installments, the Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio has never had a team quite like Wisconsin. The Badgers will be the first five-loss team ever to play in the Grandaddy, and they only finished third in their own division with a 4-4 Big Ten record.
Yet this isn’t some fluky, out-of-nowhere program, as Wisconsin is playing in its third straight Rose Bowl and its fifth since 1999.
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