Michigan vs Wisconsin: Series History
Now we get into the real season.
It's time to buckle that chinstrap even tighter and get ready to wreck people. It's B1G season.
Wisconsin has been Michigan's conference opener 20 times throughout history. Michigan has enjoyed great success going 18-2 against Wisconsin with the most recent B1G opener meeting in 2008, a 27-25 Michigan comeback win after going down 19-0 at halftime. We will not discuss anymore details about that season.
Michigan and Wisconsin were two of the founding seven members of the conference, then named-Intercollegiate Conference of Factory Representatives but unofficially it was the Western Conference.
But get this: they also were adversaries in another conference prior to the birth of the B1G: the short-lived Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest (IAANW)
The first conference game in program history was against Wisconsin waaaaay back on October 15, 1892 when the Wolverines took out the Badgers 10-6 in the IAANW opener.
TALE OF THE TAPE
SERIES HISTORY
Source: Michigan Football SuperGuide
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September 17th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^
I like Wisconsin as a program and think they have great fans. Always enjoy playing them and I root for W against pretty much everyone not us.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:20 PM ^
Agree. It's great having teams to play with great fans. The downside is ... there aren't many other classy fanbases. Just saying. NW is another great fanbase from my experience.
September 17th, 2019 at 6:30 PM ^
I will add Nebraska.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:17 PM ^
Iowa and Northwestern as well.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:21 PM ^
I remember watching that 1993 game that we lost. It was so bizarre to lose to Wisconsin. I remember their fans running on the field.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:23 PM ^
September 17th, 2019 at 11:02 PM ^
Was in college that year a I remember being completely shocked by the loss. Up until that point all my Michigan vs Wisconsin memories were of Michigan beating Wisconsin with ease.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:34 PM ^
A friend of mine went to that game. She told me it was scary in the final minutes, as if the stadium was literally shaking as the fans were getting ready to storm the field. Wisconsin had not beaten us in forever and they hadn't had a notable win in a long time.
This was the game where several drunken Badger fans leaned too hard against the guard rail, which broke and they fell forward on to the field. I'm surprised nobody was killed. Then when the fans were storming the field, three people were nearly trampled to death in the madness.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:30 AM ^
clearly you have never been to a game at Camp Randall.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
I wonder who the Leroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch Family roots for??
(since he played for both teams).
September 18th, 2019 at 5:42 PM ^
I really like their program too. And even though their fans really have it out for us, I haven't really met one that I personally disliked. I'm sure they exist, but that's all to say that they've got a decent fanbase.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^
Way too much red at the bottom of that series history image. Time to get a streak of blue going. Go Blue!
September 17th, 2019 at 5:47 PM ^
You can really see the difference by coaching era.
Michigan dominated Early (and everything before) to Late Carr.
Wisconsin dominated Late Carr to RichRod.
We didn't play under Hoke.
Harbaugh is 2-1.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:23 PM ^
Moeller went 1-2 against Barry Alvarez. I would say Early Carr righted the ship.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:26 PM ^
Another way to visualize rivalries:
September 17th, 2019 at 7:02 PM ^
Did you know that we only have a losing record against 12 current FBS teams (in order of least surprising to most):
- USC
- Oklahoma
- Florida State
- Texas
- Tennessee
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Utah
- Arizona State
- Mississippi State
- Kansas State
- <gulp> Toledo
September 17th, 2019 at 7:42 PM ^
Was a list of 6 when Carr retired.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:57 PM ^
Out of that list, the one I’d like to rectify most is USC. I hate those fuckers more than any other program, more than OSU, Sparty, or ND.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:40 PM ^
+1 Cool list, nice format, thx for sharing! (I bookmarked it)
September 17th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
Obviously an improper method because it uses "all time" as it's measure, rather than "arbitrary date that best serves the narrative of the moment"
September 17th, 2019 at 5:31 PM ^
One of the hot moms on the PTA went to Wisconsin. Her daughter is little Hatter's "girlfriend".
Yep, that's right, I'm on the PTA.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:45 PM ^
Harper Valley PTA? Barbara Eden is a Wisconsin alum?
September 18th, 2019 at 12:16 AM ^
She looked hotter in I dream of Jeannie. NBC made her pull her Jeannie bottoms up high enough to hide her naval. Funny how we seemed so big brother back then. I remember watching it when I was kid!
September 17th, 2019 at 5:53 PM ^
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, & hide yo husband.
September 17th, 2019 at 6:16 PM ^
Lord help us all !!! ?
September 17th, 2019 at 6:32 PM ^
So you are hot for your girlfriends mom?
Too much sharing...
However, I recall my Polish high school sweetheart, who's mom looked a bit like Joanna Pacula. Just an observation on my part.
September 17th, 2019 at 7:09 PM ^
Nah she's not my type. Always wearing yoga pants and no makeup. I like my women painted and as high maintenance as possible.
September 19th, 2019 at 3:43 PM ^
User name fits...
September 17th, 2019 at 5:33 PM ^
a lot of damn red recently
don't look, the UM v OSU pic looks worse
September 17th, 2019 at 5:37 PM ^
Is it it though? It’s 5-5 since 2002.
September 17th, 2019 at 8:50 PM ^
We have not won at Camp Randall since 2001.
SEVENTEEN YEARS
September 17th, 2019 at 9:24 PM ^
It’s tough when you only play there every 4 years.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
We've played Florida more times than we've visited in-conference opponent Wisconsin since 2002 so........misleading.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
And have the same record against Florida as we do Wisconsin under Harbaugh. Irrelevant, but interesting.
September 17th, 2019 at 11:44 PM ^
Funny (not funny), I was at that game. Ugly play, mistakes on both sides. Felt like neither team deserved to win. Little did I realize that with hindsight I would look back on that level of play longingly for the next two regimes.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:39 PM ^
I feel so bad for the youngins who don't remember Michigan football before 2005. We used to wipe the floor with low-talent programs like Wisconsin.
September 18th, 2019 at 9:04 AM ^
I remember going to the 2002 game vs Iowa. It rained the entire game and Iowa absolutely pounded us in the Big House 34-9.
September 18th, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
Yeah, there were always one-off losses to low-talent programs like Iowa and Wisconsin, but they were exceptions to the rule. I remember us losing to Illinois (Illinois!) at home when I was in college. But we were massive favorites in those games. And when teams like Iowa and Wisconsin and Illinois would manage to take one off of us, it would only bring their record to like 1-9 or 2-8 in the previous 10 meetings.
September 18th, 2019 at 12:37 PM ^
Basing off the other 3 road games i have been to. I expect an absolute barn burner. 2016 Iowa, 2017 Indiana (OT), 2018 Northwestern, and now 2019 Wisconsin.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:40 PM ^
Also, that 2010 game when Burt Bielema ran the ball 73 straight plays in the second half and we couldn't stop them--that was the nail in the coffin for Rich Rod
September 17th, 2019 at 6:22 PM ^
I was thinking that the Penn State game that year where the secondary couldn't find receivers with a map (hence the board's "Never Forget" moment that season), but yeah, the Wisconsin game that year was rather depressing too.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:42 PM ^
I remember that stretch from 97-02, which largely corresponds to my time in A2. Wisconsin would waltz in with Ron Dayne and a bunch of hype and Michigan would emerge victorious. Let's get back to that
September 17th, 2019 at 5:43 PM ^
Harbaugh has never won a road game against a top 23 team as Michigan head coach. Really what hope do we have?
JK I think it’s gonna be a close game.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:11 PM ^
Small sample size. I am pretty sure that changes this weekend.
September 17th, 2019 at 5:43 PM ^
A little too much red at the bottom of that chart. Need to break the away losing streak this weekend!!
September 17th, 2019 at 5:47 PM ^
How did we beat them in 2008? Lmao
September 17th, 2019 at 6:07 PM ^
With a Machete named John Thompson!
September 17th, 2019 at 6:10 PM ^
Wisconsin was ranked #9 too. They were overrated but still.
September 17th, 2019 at 6:15 PM ^
September 17th, 2019 at 6:59 PM ^
We lost to Utah, Toledo, and Northwestern at home by a combined 12 points. We should have won 6 games that year.