the last time wisconsin won the big ten championship was 2012.
the last time wisconsin won the big ten championship was 2012.
when was the last time wisconsin won the big ten championship?
2012
the 2012 season ended with the badgers winning a third consecutive big ten title. despite finishing with a 7-5 record and third in the leaders division, the badgers advanced to the big ten championship game by virtue of the fact that penn state and ohio state were ineligible for postseason play. a dominating rushing performance led wisconsin to a 70-31 victory over #12 ranked nebraska in the big ten championship game. only days later, brett bielema resigned to become the head coach of the arkansas razorbacks. gary andersen, formerly coach of utah state university, was named head coach on december 19, 2012. at the request of the team captains, barry alvarez named himself interim coach for the 2013 rose bowl, where the badgers lost, 20-14 to stanford.bret bielema finished his coaching career at wisconsin with a 68-24 record a 74 percent winning percentage 3 top 10 finishes 6 top 25 finishes 3 big ten titles and 7 straight winning seasons won ten or more games 4 out of 7 years.
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it was the first time since 1999 that a big ten team beat two top ten teams by the first of october in the same season, the last being penn state in 1999. the last time wisconsin defeated two top ten teams in the same season was 1962. the last time wisconsin beat msu in east lansing was in 2002 when barry alvarez was head coach. the last time wisconsin beat a top ten team on the road was at no. 5 purdue in 2004.
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