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The Big Ten will have to place a team in the four-team playoff in Year 1 if it wants to participate in the Rose Bowl in the 2014 season. Colleague Brett McMurphy reports that the Rose and Sugar bowls will serve as semifinal sites in the first year...

Another fantastic trip to the Rose Bowl is in the books. If you've never been, you owe it to yourself to go. Put that on your bucket list, along with getting an email answered by me in the Thursday mailbag. These lucky souls can now die happy: Dav...

PASADENA, Calif. -- After he'd finished all his Rose Bowl postgame media obligations, Barry Alvarez took one last stroll through the Wisconsin locker room to talk to some players. He embraced redshirt freshman Derek Watt and told him, "You're going t...

PASADENA, Calif. -- The Hollywood ending was all set up. Wisconsin, the underdog in the Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio, would reverse its recent history here under the steady guidance of the old pro who'd come out of retirement for one last assign...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Greetings from football paradise. No one should ever complain about being at the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. It should be about 60 degrees at kickoff, with a few clouds but otherwise a typically beautiful setting as Wisconsin ...

Three keys for Wisconsin in today's Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio: 1. Open it up: Wisconsin is Wisconsin, so of course the Badgers are going to do everything they can to run the ball. But even their offensive line is going to have trouble simp...

After taking a week off for Christmas Eve, the Big Ten Monday chat is back in its regular time slot of 3 p.m. ET. That's noon in the Pacific time zone, which is where I am today in preparation for Tuesday's Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio. We ca...

The day after Wisconsin lost at Oregon State in Week 2, Bart Miller was summoned to coach Bret Bielema's office. Miller's first thought was that he might be in trouble with the boss. He'd noticed an odd vibe around the football complex that day, a...

The Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio features the FBS all-time touchdown king and the leading rusher in Stanford history. Running backs Montee Ball and Stepfan Taylor undoubtedly command the lion's share of the attention from each defense. Yet ne...

Wisconsin is making its third straight appearance in the Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio, but it feels like the first time for starting quarterback Curt Phillips. The fifth-year senior will finally play in Pasadena after battling back from three...

Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave's season ended when he suffered a broken collarbone on Oct. 27 against Michigan State. Or did it? Stave was thought to be lost for the year with that injury, but he practiced with the Badgers on a limited basis thi...

Barry Alvarez doesn't use search committees. Search committees use him. When a coach tells Barry Alvarez he's taking another job, he tells them to hit the road and then invites a possible successor into his hotel room suite five minutes later. ...

Barry Alvarez is coming back to the sidelines. The Wisconsin athletic director confirmed Thursday in a news conference that he will serve as interim coach in the Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio against Stanford. Alvarez, who retired in 2005, has...

Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will announce Thursday if he'll return to the sidelines to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper spoke to Alvarez in New York, where he...

Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will return to the sidelines to coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal.

How's the bratwurst down in Fayetteville? Bret Bielema's exit creates lots of questions for Wisconsin, and Tom Oates tries to answer them. Will Barry Alvarez coach the team in the Rose Bowl? A Badgers fan writes that he won't miss Bielema. Fans s...