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The 38th edition of the Holiday Bowl, it featured Wisconsin from the Big Ten Conference and USC from the Pac-12 Conference. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season. The game started at 7:40 p.m. PST and was telecast on ESPN (also on ESPN Radio). The Badgers defeated the Trojans 23–21.
Pete Beathard had completed his fourth touchdown pass with 14:54 left in the game to put USC up 42–14. Then the Badgers, led by Vander Kelen, put together one of the greatest comebacks in the history of college football, scoring 23 unanswered points in the fourth quarter before time ran out. The final score of the game was USC-42, Wisconsin-37.
The Wisconsin Badgers college football team competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), representing the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. Since the establishment of the team in 1889, Wisconsin has appeared in 35 bowl games. [1]
Wisconsin, meanwhile, is scoring 82.4 points per game, good for No. 34 nationally in advance of Friday's games, and a stark contrast to Badgers teams of the past. Last season, Wisconsin averaged ...
The Badgers, who entered the game leading the nation in free-throw percentage, had the Trojans playing catch-up for the rest of the half as USC struggled to find an offensive rhythm.
A botched punt and early miscues put the Trojans in a hole against the visiting Badgers, but a strong second half gave USC a victory on Saturday afternoon. USC overcomes mistakes to rally past ...
USC went on to lose the 2015 Holiday Bowl 23–21 to the Wisconsin Badgers. Zach Banner started all 14 games at tackle, was First Team All-Pac-12, and won USC's Offensive Lineman of the Year Award after allowing only nine total pressures on 426 pass attempts, according to Pro Football Focus , which graded him as the season's top pass-blocking ...
The Badgers faced #1 USC in the historic Rose Bowl; the first bowl game in college football history between the top two teams in the polls, and the final rankings were already set. At the time, the two major polls (AP, UPI) released their final editions prior to the bowl games, so Wisconsin's runner-up rank went unchanged after the bowl loss.