LINCOLN, Neb. -- When Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference in 2011, many envisioned a dynamic football rivalry developing between the Cornhuskers and the University of Wisconsin, a notion that gained steam when the schools were placed in the West Division during the 2014 realignment.
Unfortunately, that hasn't happened.
Though many of the games between the teams have been closely contested, the rivalry never took off in large part because Nebraska's program hasn't been as consistently competitive in the Big Ten as conference officials hoped when the once-proud Cornhuskers program came on board. Seldom have the games had a direct bearing on the division race.