HUSKIES SOFTEN UP WOLVERINES, BADGERS EAT THEM. Wisconsin 23, Michigan 20. The link to the news article reports that this Badger win ended a string of 23 consecutive Big Ten opening wins by the team with the least imaginative pep band in the universe. So that means the last time Michigan started the Big Ten 0-1 was 1981, when they went into Camp Randall as the preseason No. 1, and the Badgers won. I found out about that win while waiting for the Wildcat at Cedar Point. I found out about today's win on the 10 pm news.

It has been a while since Wisconsin beat Michigan in football. There were back to back wins in Madison in 1993, the first Rose Bowl season, and in 1994, when Wisconsin beat Duke in one of the corporate New Year's Day games. It took a few tiebreaks for Wisconsin to overcome losses to Michigan to get to the Rose Bowl after the 1998 and 1999 seasons.

The Huskies? Didn't fare so well in Akron.