Before we look ahead to the University of Wisconsin football team's game at Indiana on Saturday, let's take a look back, say, an arbitrary 25 years. That would take us to Nov. 7, 1981, when the Badgers defeated the Hoosiers 28-7 in Bloomington.

The contest pitted UW head coach Dave McClain against IU coach Lee Corso (currently of ESPN's 'College GameDay'). The Badgers had two All-Americans on the squad'nose guard Tim Krumrie and defensive back Matt VandenBoom.

Indiana took a 7-0 lead in the second quarter on a 32-yard pass from QB Babe Laufenberg to flanker John Boyd. But Wisconsin countered with four straight touchdowns to improve to 5-3 [UW would go on to finish the regular season at 7-4 and play Tennessee in the Garden State Bowl].

'It was 7-7 and then they just started to overwhelm us,' Corso said following the game. 'There was nothing we could have done to change the face of the game.'

Badgers QB Jess Cole knotted the game in the second quarter with a three-yard pass to TE Jeff Nault, then Cole scored UW's second TD in the third quarter via a seven-yard run.

Cole, who went on to toss a 56-yard TD pass to SE Michael Jones for the next score, ended his day just 5-of-13 for 96 yards, surprising given he accounted for three scores (in reality, Wisconsin ran the ball 50 times).

SS David Greenwood picked off a pass and returned it 65 yards for the final margin. The Hoosiers finished with 260 yards of total offense, while the Badgers racked up 315.

Said McClain on the win: 'Coach Corso really had them ready to play. We were not ready to play the first half. I don't know why, but we didn't have any intensity. We tried to execute some simple things in the second half. I'm glad for the win on the road, I'll tell you that.'

IU went on to a 3-8 record in Corso's penultimate season.