Wisconsin football lost its fourth straight game on Saturday as Nebraska crushed Luke Fickell’s team, 44-25, at Memorial Stadium. It’s the Badgers’ first loss to Nebraska since 2012. The Badgers had won the last 10 games in the series. But from the start, Wisconsin’s defense had no answer against a previously slumping Nebraska offense, a troubling sign for a unit that played solid against No. 1 Oregon last week.
Nebraska, which scored on six straight possessions from the second quarter to late in the fourth as they blew open the game, posted a season-high in points.
Huskers running back Emmett Johnson made it look easy in posting his first 100-yard rushing game of his career, and freshamn quarterback Dylan Raiola picked apart Wisconsin’s defense. The freshman looked like a season veteran out at Memorial Stadium on Senior Night.
He completed 73.7% of his passes, threw for 293 yards and had one touchdown without any interceptions. It was the first game since Sept. 28 against Purdue that he didn’t throw a pick. Raiola was poised, confident and in complete command against a Wisconsin defense that had limited No. 1 Oregon to a season-low 16 points just one week ago.