The message is simple...

The teams and states are very evenly matched; the team colors are similar and even the current occupants of our Governors' offices are pretty even on both the Asshole and 2016 Presidential Loser scales.

Should never be allowed to wear
Rutgers Scarlet colors (or white pants).

Did not graduate from Wisconsin
(or anywhere else).

So, Keep Calm and Chop Wisconsin. The Knights have just one job this week.

The First Meeting of Rutgers and Wisconsin Summed Up in One Photo

Taken with 3:48 left in the game. Janarion Grant on the 20 to receive a punt.

Quite a difference from our last home game.

Another First Meeting in this First B1G Year

I did the same for Michigan, Ohio State, and Nebraska, so here are early team pictures of Wisconsin and Rutgers to commemorate the Homecoming game this Saturday that has been entirely too long in coming. The Wisconsin football program is a year older than Ohio State's and only twenty years younger than Rutgers', having been established in 1889.

The 1903 Wisconsin Football Squad, with pads starting to make their appearance.

The 1891 Rutgers Football Team (I'm not sure of the subtleties of the 1891 rules, but I think the player with the Clockwork Orange bowler was the designated knife carrier).

The 1891 RU image is a New York World-Telegram & Sun photograph from the Library of Congress.

Prepare to Welcome Wisconsin to The Birthplace

It will good to be back home against Wisconsin next Saturday after visiting Columbus, Ohio and Lincoln, Nebraska (while we were losing 42-24 to Nebraska just now, Wisconsin was beating Maryland 52-7, and Maryland didn't score their touchdown until the last minute of the game).

#ChopWisconsin