Alas, today is Jan. 1, and the year 2020 is finally behind is — most likely for the best in many ways.
For the Wisconsin Badger football program, 2020 began on a rough note with the team’s 28-27 Rose Bowl loss to Oregon on New Year’s Day.
As Badger fans know, it didn’t get any easier. The Big Ten Conference initially postponed the 2020 season, kickoff came in late October, the team saw starting quarterback Jack Coan break his foot before the season, three regular-season games were canceled due to COVID-19 and numerous injuries were suffered by key players.
But in the end, if there’s one word to describe the team it’s resilient. The Badgers could’ve shipped it in after a loss at Iowa capped a three-game losing streak and especially when the program experienced a COVID-19 outbreak and didn’t play for two weeks.
But the Badgers didn’t, and they finished the year two victories. That captures the resilience of the team and the football program as a whole.
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So as we look back upon the 2020 season, we do so while giving credit to everybody that worked hard to make this season happen, as well as to everybody in the locker room and on the coaching staff for battling through hardship and sacrificing a lot to successfully finish the year.
With that, here are studs and duds from the Badgers’ 2020 football season: