When Alex Erickson heard the Wisconsin football team was heading to San Diego to take on USC during the Holiday Bowl, he became excited for a number of reasons.
One, he and the rest of the Badgers have a chance to face a well-respected and top-tier program. Second, spending time in southern California isn’t the worst place to play a bowl game on Dec. 30, a nice weather break from a Wisconsin winter.
“Any time you get to go somewhere warm you don’t take it for granted,” Erickson said. “It’s fun to go somewhere different, see different things, play a different type of team.