Madison — Sometime after the Holiday Bowl, the battle to replace Joel Stave as Wisconsin's starting quarterback will begin in earnest.
The fifth-year senior from Whitnall High School is set to make his 41st and final start for UW when the Badgers meet USC on Dec. 30 in San Diego.
UW is 30-10 in games Stave has started. A victory over the Trojans would allow Stave to surpass the program mark of Brooks Bollinger, who won 30 games as a starter from 1999-2002.
Two players expected to vie for the starting job next season should be on the UW sideline for the bowl game — redshirt junior Bart Houston, the No.