INDIVIDUAL NOTES
- Junior RB Jonathan Taylor carried the ball 28 times for 222 yards and a touchdown.
- Taylor now has 5,856 yards for his career, the 2nd-highest total in Big Ten history:
1. Ron Dayne, Wisconsin (1996-99) 7,125
2. Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin (2017-present) 5,856
3. Archie Griffin, Ohio State (1972-75) 5,589
4. Anthony Thompson, Indiana (1986-89) 5,299
5. Montee Ball, Wisconsin (2009-12) 5,140 - Taylor recorded the 31st 100-yard rushing game of his career — only Ron Dayne (33) has recorded more as a Badger — and his 17th career game with at least 150 yards.
- Taylor rushed for at least 200 yards for the 12th time in his career, matching Texas’ Ricky Williams (12, 1995-98) for the 2nd-most 200-yard games in FBS history. Only Ron Dayne (14, 1996-99) has recorded more.
- With his 3rd straight 200-yard game, Taylor joins Billy Marek (1974), Ron Dayne (1996 and ’99) and Melvin Gordon (2014) as the only players in UW history with 3 straight 200-yard performances.
- The first Badger to rush for 200 yards against a single opponent 3 times, Taylor has now done so against both Nebraska and Purdue. He rushed for 219 yards in 2017 and a career-high 321 yards in 2018 vs. the Boilermakers.
- Taylor scored his 22nd touchdown of the season on a 51-yard run in the 1st quarter, matching Montee Ball for the 4th-highest single-season total in school history.
1. Montee Ball, 2011 39
2. Melvin Gordon, 2014 32
3. Brian Calhoun, 2005 24
4. Montee Ball, 2012 22
5. Jonathan Taylor, 2019 22 - Taylor now has 51 career touchdowns, trailing only Montee Ball (83) and Ron Dayne (71) all-time at Wisconsin.
- Taylor’s 47 career rushing touchdowns rank behind only Montee Ball (77) and Ron Dayne (71) on the Badgers’ all-time list.
- Junior QB Jack Coan went 15-for-19 for 203 yards with 2 touchdowns and 1 INT for a passer rating of 192.9, his third-highest mark of the year.
- Coan has now passed for at least 200 yards 4 times this season.
- Junior RB Garrett Groshek scored his 2nd rushing touchdown of the season and finished with season highs in carries (9) and yards (55).
- Junior WR Quintez Cephus pulled in 5 catches for 79 yards, including a 29-yard touchdown reception from Jack Coan in the 3rd quarter.
- Junior WR Kendric Pryor tallied a season-high 47 yards receiving on 4 catches.
- Sophomore WR Aron Cruickshank rushed for a career-high 47 yards, including his first rushing touchdown of the season (2nd of his career) on a 27-yard run in the 1st quarter.
- Junior WR Jack Dunn pulled in the first touchdown reception of his career on an 18-yard pass from Jack Coan in the 2nd quarter.
- Junior FB Mason Stokke got into the end zone for the first time in his career on a 1-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
- Junior OLB Christian Bell recorded his 1st sack of the season, and the 2nd of his career, by dropping Purdue QB Aidan O’Connell for a loss of 10 on a 4th-down play in the 3rd quarter.
- Senior OLB Zack Baun posted 2 tackles for loss, giving him a team-best 16.0 TFLs on the season.
- Senior ILB Chris Orr led UW with 9 tackles and 1.0 sack, increasing his team-high total to 11.0 sacks on the season.
- Junior CB Caesar Williams recorded a season high 6 tackles (5 solo) and added 2 pass breakups.
- Junior S Eric Burrell recorded his 3rd interception of the season — and 4th of his career — by picking off an Aidan O’Connell pass in the 3rd quarter.
- Senior K Zach Hintze connected on a school record 62-yard field goal as time expired in the 1st half, the first made field goal of his career.
- Hintze’s kick matched Minnesota’s Chip Lohmiller (1986) for the 2nd-longest field goal in modern Big Ten history. Only Michigan State’s Morten Andersen’s 63-yarder in 1981 is longer.
- The kick is just the 2nd 60-yard field goal in school history, joining John Hall’s 60-yarder at Minnesota on Nov. 11, 1995 (which came indoors at the Metrodome). Pat “The Kangaroo Kicker” O’Dea also had 2 drop-kick field goals of 60-plus yards (62 in 1898 and 60 in 1899).
- Hintze is now 1-for-2 in his career, with both attempts coming from 62 yards.
- Hintze also holds the Wisconsin state high school record with a 61-yard field goal he delivered in the 2014 state playoffs.