Wisconsin Football: 5 best Badgers’ offenses of all-time
By Jim Quinlan
3. 2010: The TCU Rose Bowl Year
The Badgers scored an amazing 41.5 points per game and ranked fifth nationally. This was behind a shockingly efficient year from Scott Tolzien where he completed 72.9 percent (school record) of his passes and a dominate running game featuring John Clay, Montee Ball, AND James White.
Notable pass catchers were Lance Kendricks, Nick Toon, David Gilreath and freshman Jared Abbrederis. Toon and Abby weren’t yet at their peak so the passing game wasn’t dominant, however the efficiency perfectly complemented the dominant running game and offensive line. Gabe Carimi, John Moffit, Peter Konz, Ricky Wagner, Kevin Zeitler were the starters and all of them were eventually NFL draft picks.
Clay, Ball and White basically all had 1,000 yard seasons (Ball had 996 yards) and at least 14 touchdowns EACH. Had it not been for questionable play calling in the Rose Bowl against TCU, it would have been a near perfect season. You may recall that the coaching staff waited to get big, fat John Clay heavily involved until the 4th quarter where he then proceeded to plow over the TCU defense with ease. Had we followed that strategy the whole game, the Badgers would have come out the victor.