Ohio State players have to figure the Wisconsin Badgers have extra motivation going into a Saturday night matchup of top-10 teams. After all, the last time they met, Ohio State strutted away with a 59-0 victory in the 2014 Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis.
The Badgers were favored that night, with OSU having lost quarterback J.T. Barrett to injury the week before, but Cardale Jones started his improbable rise to stardom and the national championship by waxing the Badgers.
Ohio State linebacker and co-captain Raekwon McMillan was a freshman on that 2014 OSU team. He was asked Monday how long such a beating would stick with him if it had been on the other foot, and how much it could motivate the Badgers this time around.