The University of Wisconsin football team — 3-2, 1-1 Big Ten — returned home after a trip to Southern California to face Purdue — 1-4, 0-2 — in its first home Big Ten game of the season.
The Badger faithful, 76,091 strong, packed Camp Randall in another sellout on Saturday, setting the stage for an electric matchup against the Big Ten rivals.
The Badgers were coming off of a tough week, losing 38-21 to the USC Trojans, and the announcement that starting running back Chez Mellusi announcing that he’d be stepping away from football to try and recover from the injuries that have hampered his Badger career.