Notes, tidbits and stats for the game between the Wisconsin Badgers and Minnesota Gophers at Camp Randall Stadium:
— This is the 132nd meeting between Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Badgers lead the series 62-61-8 with Wisconsin 35-23-6 in games played in Madison.
— In 2022, the Badgers are 5-3 when scoring first, 1-2 when the opponent scores first, 5-1 when leading after the first quarter, 0-1 when the opponent leads after the first quarter, 5-2 when leading at halftime, 1-3 when trailing at halftime, 5-0 when leading after the third quarter and 1-4 when the opponent leads after the third quarter.
— Wisconsin has 49 100-yard rushers vs. Minnesota. Last: Garrett Groshek, 154 in 2020. Most: Billy Marek, 304 in 1974.
— The Badgers 17 200-yard passers vs. Minnesota. Last: Jack Coan, 280 in 2019. Last at home: Joel Stave, 215 in 2014. Most: Darrell Bevell, 423 in 1993. Most in win: Bevell, 302 in 1995. Most at home (and most in home win): John Stocco, 297 in 2004.
— Wisconsin has 17 100-yard receivers vs. Minnesota. Last: Quintez Cephus, 114 in 2019. Last at home and most: Alex Erickson, 160 in 2014.
— Taking away sacks, the Gophers are allowing 4.21 yards per rush.
— Minnesota QB Athan Kaliakmanis has received all or the majority of the snaps in 4 games. He has yet to have 10+ completions and has had more than 15 attempts just once.
— Gophers RB Mohamed Ibrahim has 30+ carries in five straight games. The most consecutive games of 30+ carries in the NFL since 1946 is three, done four times, the last in the 2009 season by Cleveland’s Jerome Harrison.
— In its seven wins, Minnesota is converting 65.96% of its third downs. In four losses, 31.25%.
— The Gophers are 0-4 this season against teams which currently possess a winning record.
— Graham Mertz needs 1 touchdown pass to pass Brooks Bollinger for 5th place on UW’s all-time list.
— Mertz needs 1 passing touchdown to pass Randy Wright (1983) and Darrell Bevell (1993) for 5th place, 2 to tie John Stocco (2005) for 4th place and 3 to tie and 4 to pass Joel Stave (2013) for 3rd place on UW’s single-season list.
— Mertz needs 37 passing yards to pass Scott Tolzien for 6th place and 204 to pass Alex Hornibrook for 5th place on UW’s all-time list.
— Mertz needs 34 passing yards to pass John Stocco (2004) for 17th place, 162 to pass Mike Howard (1984) for 16th place, 220 to pass John Stocco (2006) for 15th place, 286to pass Jim Sorgi (2003) for 14th place and and 307 to pass Darrell Bevell (1995) for 12th place on UW’s all-time single-season list.
— Braelon Allen needs 1 rushing touchdown to tie and 2 to pass Mike Samuel for 15th place, 3 to tie Terrell Fletcher for 14th place, 4 to tie and 5 to pass Brooks Bollinger and Rufus Ferguson for 12th place on UW’s all-time list.
— Chimere Dike needs 3 receiving touchdowns to tie Pat Richter (1961), Tony Simmons (1994), Jonathan Orr (2002 and 2005), Jared Abbrederis (2011) and Jacob Pedersen (2011) for 5th place on UW’s all-time single-season list.
— Nick Herbig needs .5 sacks to tie T.J. Watt (2016) and Chris Orr (2019) for 6th place, 1 to tie Tarek Saleh (1995) and O’Brien Schofield (2009) for 4th place, 1.5 to tie and 2 to pass Zack Baun (2019) for 3rd place and 3 to tie and 3.5 to pass Tarek Saleh for 2nd place on UW’s all-time single season list.
— Herbig needs .5 sacks to tie Vince Biegel for 7th place, 1 to tie and 1.5 to pass John Favret for 6th place and 3 to tie and 3.5 to pass Wendell Bryant for 5th place on UW’s all-time list.
— Herbig needs .5 tackles for loss to tie and 1 to pass J.J. Watt for 14th place, 1.5 to tie and 2 to pass T.J. Edwards for 13th place, 2.5 to tie Mike Taylor for 12th place, 3 to tie Darryl Sims for 11th place and 3.5 to tie and 4 to pass Vince Biegel for 10th place on UW’s all-time list.
— Herbig needs 4 tackles for loss to tie Joe Schobert (2015) and Zack Baun (2019) for 9th place and 5 to tie and 5.5 to pass Anttaj Hawthorne (2003) for 8th place on UW’s all-time single-season list.
— Herbig needs 1 forced fumble to tie Brendan Kelly for 6th place and 2 to tie Scott Starks and DeAndre Levy for 4th place on UW’s all-time list.
— Herbig needs 1 forced fumble to tie 10 others (most recently Chris Borland in 2012) for 4th place on UW’s all-time single-season list.
— John Torchio needs 2 interceptions to tie nine others (last: Shane Carter, 2007; Jamar Fletcher accounts for three of the nine) for 3rd place on UW’s all-time single-season list.
