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Wisconsin vs. Maryland Postgame Notes
Camp Randall Stadium – Madison, Wis.
Oct. 25, 2014

TEAM NOTES
•    Wisconsin’s captains today were seniors Michael Caputo, Rob Havenstein and Derek Landisch and junior Melvin Gordon. They were joined by honorary captain Brandon Williams.
•    UW improved to 12-1-1 all-time in its first game against a Big Ten opponent.
•    The Badgers are 11-1 at home under head coach Gary Andersen.
•    UW won its eighth consecutive game when coming off a bye, dating back to 2008.
•    Wisconsin converted a fake punt on its second drive of the game, with junior P Drew Meyer completing his first career pass, 17 yards to Troy Fumagalli. The fake punt was UW’s first since Chris Borland completed a pass to Jacob Pedersen at Arizona State last season.
•    UW did not allow a point in the first half for the first time this season.
•    Wisconsin recorded 7.0 tackles for loss today and has 18.0 over its last two games.
•    The Badgers allowed just 175 total yards, their fewest against a Big Ten opponent since Minnesota tallied 156 yards in 2011. Maryland had just 46 yards rushing—the fewest for a UW opponent since Northwestern ran for 44 yards on Oct. 12, 2013.
•    UW held Maryland to 10 first downs, just the fifth time since 2005 that the Badgers have held a Big Ten team to 10 or fewer first downs in a game.
•    The Badgers accumulated 527 total yards of offense, the second time topping 500 yards this season (also had 756 against Bowling Green on Sept. 20, 2013).
•    UW ran for over 300 yards for the third time this season, but today marked the first time the Badgers ran for the 300+ and passed for 200+ yards.
•    A season-high nine different Badgers caught a pass today.
•    Wisconsin eclipsed the 50-point mark for the fourth time in Gary Andersen’s two seasons in Madison, including the third time against a Big Ten team.
•    At one point in the game the Badgers defense held Maryland without a first down for seven consecutive possessions. UW forced a total of eight three-and-outs on the day.
•    The Badgers did not turn the ball over for the second consecutive game.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
•    With three touchdowns today, junior RB Melvin Gordon has now scored 15 touchdowns in his last five games. That ties the most in school history over a five-game stretch. Billy Marek also had 15 in five games in 1974.
•    Gordon went over the 100-yard mark for the 16th time in his career and sixth time in seven games this season. He finished with 122 yards on 22 carries.
•    Junior QB Joel Stave’s 43-yard pass completion to junior WR Alex Erickson on the Badgers’ first drive was UW’s longest pass play of the season. It was also Erickson’s longest career catch. That was later surpassed by Stave’s 47-yard TD pass to Erickson in the third quarter.
•    Erickson went over the 100-yard receiving plateau for the second time in his career and fell one yard short of his career high with 121 receiving yards. His personal best is 122 yards vs. Western Illinois earlier this season.
•    Stave’s 155 passing yards were his most since throwing for 339 against Penn State in the regular-season finale last year.
•    Sophomore LB Vince Biegel recovered his second fumble of the season, falling on a botched Maryland handoff in the first quarter. That set up Gordon’s 1-yard TD run to open the second quarter.
•    Senior WR Kenzel Doe has seven punt returns of at least 15 yards this season. Each return has set up a Wisconsin touchdown. Doe’s 15-yard return in the second quarter set up Gordon’s 3-yard touchdown run that made the score 24-0. His 14-yard return directly preceded Stave’s long TD pass to Erickson.
•    Sophomore QB Bart Houston unleashed a 52-yard punt on his first career punt attempt.
•    Senior TE Sam Arneson caught his third touchdown pass of the season and seventh of his career.
•    Tanner McEvoy’s 60-yard TD run in the fourth quarter was the second-longest run of his career (62-yard run against Bowling Green earlier this season). Those are the two longest runs by a Wisconsin QB since at least 1996. It was McEvoy’s third rushing TD this season, and he has now ran for 380 yards this season—most since Brooks Bollinger had 466 in 2002.
•    Freshman Natrell Jamerson record his first career kickoff return, bringing it back 21 yards in the fourth quarter.
•    Joe Schobert recorded five tackles, including a sack and two tackles for loss, which matches his career-high.
•    Marcus Trotter picked up six total tackles, two tackles for loss and the first full sack of his career.
•    Derek Landisch had a team-high eight tackles, including two for loss.
•    Vince Biegel made 1.5 tackles for loss and recovered the second fumble of his career.
•    Darius Hillary matched a career-high with 0.5 tackles for loss.