As the countdown to the first Wisconsin football game of the season continues, Badger of Honor is taking a look at Badgers by the numbers, checking in on a different Badger or Badgers players who wore the number corresponding with the remaining days until the Badgers head to Texas to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide Saturday, Sept. 5.
Next up in our countdown, signifying 39 days until college football is back, is a pair of No. 39’s on both sides of the ball: Matt VandenBoom and P.J. Hill.
Matt VandenBoom
A Kimberly, Wisconsin native, VandenBoom spent 1980-1982 on the UW campus.