MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When the University of Wisconsin football team plays a bowl game against a highly ranked opponent from the deep South or far West, the storyline is always the same.
Power versus speed.
Tonight’s Orange Bowl game between sixth-ranked UW and 11th-ranked Miami (Fla.) at Hard Rock Stadium is no different.
The Badgers (12-1) are viewed as the plodding, run-oriented Big Ten Conference team that is praying it can keep pace with the speed-based spread offense of the ACC runner-up Hurricanes (11-2). The story keeps repeating itself because this is the 13th time in its past 15 bowls that UW will play a team from the SEC, Pac-12 or ACC.