Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez talks about honoring 1993 Rose Bowl-winning team
Wisconsin football didn’t used to be much of a dominating program.
Now, it seems like the Badgers put together 12-0 or 11-1 regular season campaigns every other year. Wisconsin is seemingly always in the Big Ten Championship and back in 1990, Barry Alvarez took over as head coach.
By 1993, Wisconsin had won a Rose Bowl, finishing 10-1-1. When Alvarez started just 3 years prior, the team went 1-10 overall and 0-8 in Big Ten play. The Badgers obviously made quite the jump once Alvarez arrived.
He coached the team up until 2005 and actually started as Wisconsin’s athletic director in 2004 — one year prior to his coaching days coming to an end.
On Saturday, No. 16 Wisconsin is hosting Nebraska. And during halftime, the Badgers will be honoring its 1993 team– from 25 years ago — during halftime.
Alvarez talked about the team that truly changed the program around:
"This (1993) team is the one that turned this whole athletic program around."@UWBadgers AD Barry Alvarez was the head coach of the '93 @BadgerFootball team that will be honored this weekend for the 25th anniversary of that Rose Bowl-winning campaign: pic.twitter.com/S0Qka6owpk
— Wisconsin On BTN (@WisconsinOnBTN) October 5, 2018
Wisconsin-Nebraska is set for a 7:30 p.m. start time and the game can be watched on BTN.