Badgers End Regular Season With Win at Hawaii
November 26, 2005 | Football
The Wisconsin football team (9-3, 5-3 Big Ten) defeated Hawaii, 41-24, Friday night at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. It was the final regular season game for the Badgers under head coach Barry Alvarez. The win gave UW its sixth nine-win season under Alvarez.
Junior running back Brian Calhoun ran for 149 yards, including 133 in the first half, and scored the first touchdown of the game on a 10-yard run at the 6:12 mark of the first half. It was Calhoun's 21st rushing touchdown of the season, tying Ron Dayne 's school record set in 1999. Hawaii answered on its next drive, with Davone Bess catching a three-yard TD pass from Colt Brennan.
John Stocco and Jonathan Orr hooked up for the first of their two touchdown passes just over two minutes later, the first of 17 unanswered points for UW. Stocco finished the game completing 12-of-16 passes for 191 yards and two touchdowns. His second TD pass to Orr, at the 2:18 mark of the second quarter, put the Badgers up 24-7. Stocco now has 19 touchdown passes on the season, tying the school record. Hawaii added a field goal with 18 seconds left to make the score 24-10 at halftime.
On the Warriors' first drive of the second half, UW defensive tackle Nick Hayden sacked Brennan deep in Hawaii territory and caused a fumble, with the Badgers taking over on the nine-yard line. It was one of five sacks on the day for Wisconsin. That led to a 24-yard field goal for Taylor Mehlhaff, his second of the day.
Hawaii cut the lead to 27-17 when Brennan and Bess hooked up again, this time from eight yards out. Wisconsin had an answer again, though, as Stocco scored from one-yard out on a bootleg on a fourth-and-goal play. That capped a 12-play, 74-yard drive that ate up 6:32.
Linebacker Dontez Sanders halted Hawaii's next drive with an interception at the Warriors' 42-yard line. Sanders finished the game with three tackles for loss, including 2 ' sacks, for 24 yards and one pass breakup. Ten plays later, junior Booker Stanley ran in from six yards out for Wisconsin's final points of the day. Stanley finished with 78 yards on 15 carries. Hawaii closed the scoring with a touchdown pass with 16 seconds remaining.
The Badgers held the ball for 33:23 and gained 250 yards rushing to 41 for Hawaii. Wisconsin scored on every possession except two, punting on its opening possession of the game and running the clock out right before halftime. UW has now scored 422 points this season, breaking the school record of 409 set in 1999.
