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UW to honor 1993 team at Nebraska game
September 26, 2018 | Football
Badgers to celebrate squad that won Big Ten title, first Rose Bowl
MADISON, Wis. – In 1993, the landscape of college football was vastly different than it is today. There was no College Football Playoff (the Bowl Coalition was in its second season). The Big Eight was on its way out as a football conference. The Big Ten had just added an 11th member (Penn State). And the University of Wisconsin had won just 20 games over the previous seven seasons.
It was against that backdrop that fourth-year head coach Barry Alvarez and the Badgers engineered a season for the ages. One that ended with UW winning a then-school-record 10 games, capturing the Big Ten title, advancing to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1963, and winning the 'Granddaddy of Them All' for the first time in school history.
Twenty-five years later, Wisconsin Athletics will celebrate that historic team during a reunion scheduled to take place Oct. 5-6. More than 70 former players and coaches are scheduled to take part including Alvarez, first-team All-Big Ten selections Darrell Bevell (quarterback), Joe Panos (tackle), Jeff Messenger (safety), Michael Roan (tight end), Lamark Shackerford (nose tackle), eight-year NFL veteran running back Terrell Fletcher and offensive coordinator Brad Childress and defensive coordinator Dan McCarney.
The team and its returning members will be honored in a halftime ceremony during the Badgers' game against Nebraska (6:30 p.m. / BTN).
The 1993 Badgers set the table for the sustained success of the Wisconsin football program since that fateful year:
It was against that backdrop that fourth-year head coach Barry Alvarez and the Badgers engineered a season for the ages. One that ended with UW winning a then-school-record 10 games, capturing the Big Ten title, advancing to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1963, and winning the 'Granddaddy of Them All' for the first time in school history.
Twenty-five years later, Wisconsin Athletics will celebrate that historic team during a reunion scheduled to take place Oct. 5-6. More than 70 former players and coaches are scheduled to take part including Alvarez, first-team All-Big Ten selections Darrell Bevell (quarterback), Joe Panos (tackle), Jeff Messenger (safety), Michael Roan (tight end), Lamark Shackerford (nose tackle), eight-year NFL veteran running back Terrell Fletcher and offensive coordinator Brad Childress and defensive coordinator Dan McCarney.
The team and its returning members will be honored in a halftime ceremony during the Badgers' game against Nebraska (6:30 p.m. / BTN).
The 1993 Badgers set the table for the sustained success of the Wisconsin football program since that fateful year:
- Over the last 25 seasons, UW has compiled a record of 232-91-4 (.716), the seventh-best winning percentage in the country over that span and trailing only Ohio State in the Big Ten.
- Before 1993, Wisconsin had played in six bowl games, winning just one. In the last 25 years, UW has played in 23 bowl games, winning 14 of them.
- The Badgers' 23 appearances over the last 25 years is tied for third-most in the country and tied with Ohio State for the most in the Big Ten.
- The Badgers have won 10 or more games 12 times in the last 25 years after not having won more than nine games in the first 104 years of the program.
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