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The winner of this game stands a pretty good chance to come out of the west and head to Indy. 

ESPN's sort of crappy preview:  http://www.espn.com/blog/bigte...-in-college-football

I do think this one is becoming a decent rivalry but for me as a UW fan that will always be the Goofers and Iowa more so than Nebraska.  I have not watched any of Nebraska's games this year and I will admit to knowing next to nothing about them but it looks like Armstrong is having a decent year at QB, the rushing game seems to be about the same as the Badgers, but their schedules don't even begin to compare. 

Nebraska has beaten:

1-7 Fresno team

A decent but not great Wyoming team

A 2-5 Oregon

An average NW team

2-5 Illinois

3-4 Indiana

3-4 Purdue

So to me yes they are undefeated but I really think we have some over rated going on here.   So I will break from my superstition and predict UW beats them 24-20 with the edge being that it is a night game in Mad Town.

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Nebraska might be the most overrated #7 team in the history of college football.  Their strength of schedule is a joke, and they went down to the wire against their "toughest" opponent (Indiana). 

Some factors that won't help the Huskers?   They haven't had a quality road win in some time now.   Heck, I'm trying to remember the last time they beat a decent team away from Lincoln.   Camp Randall will be rocking.   The other thing is for as well as Armstrong has played he and Nebraska haven't played a D like Wisconsin and I think he's in for a long night.   Yes they won't have Cichy but they will have Biegel and Watt and Connelly played well in place of JC.   With as banged up as that Nebraska OL is the Badgers D could dominate in this one. 

Personally, if UW doesn't win by double digits I would be surprised.   Unless Nebraska can get a couple of cheap scores (like special teams or defensively) I see something like a 20 point Badgers win.   The key is to start fast and not let Nebraska hang around.   They do that and Badgers should roll. 

 

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