Wisconsin-Northwestern postgame notes

Wisconsin-Northwestern postgame notes

Published Oct. 12, 2013 7:22 p.m. ET

Here are some notes and tidbits from Wisconsin's, well, 35-6 beatdown of Northwestern on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium:

* This was the 95th meeting between Wisconsin and Northwestern. The Badgers now lead the all-time series 57-33-5, including 26-14-2 in Madsion.
* Wisconsin is now 8-2 in its last 10 homecoming games.
* The Badgers have won four straight over the Wildcats at Camp Randall Stadium.
* Wisconsin snapped two Northwestern streaks: The Wildcats had scored 30+ points in seven straight games and 10+ in 78 straight.
* The last time Wisconsin had seven sacks in a game was Oct. 18, 2003 vs. Purdue.   * Wisconsin now has had 35 100-yd rushers vs. Northwestern. 
* The Badgers now have had 12 200-yard passers vs. Northwestern and are 6-0 at home when accomplishing that feat.
* Chris Borland passed Greg Thomas for 10th place, Brendan Lynch for 9th place and tied Ken Criter for 8th place on UW's all-time tackles list.
* Borland had back-to-back games with 10 or more tackles for the first time since he did it in four straight from Oct. 15, 2011-Nov. 5, 2011.
* Jared Abbrederis is tied with Travis Beckum for 4th place on UW's all-time receptions list.
* Abbrederis has caught a pass in 34 consecutive games. The Wisconsin record is 38 games by Lee Evans.
* Abbrederis has three catches of 60+ yards this season – he had one of 60+ in 2012.
* James White passed Terrell Fletcher for 6th place on UW's all-time all-purpose yards list.
* Joel Stave passed Bud Keyes for 19th place, Hal Brandt for 18th place and Mike Carroll for 17th place on UW's all-time passing yards list.
* Stave had three touchdown passes against an FBS team for the first time (he also had three vs. Tennessee Tech).
* Stave has four games with multiple passing touchdowns this season. He did that just once in 2012.
* Stave has played 11 full games at Wisconsin. He's thrown an interception in eight of those contests, although against Northwestern was the first time in which he's had multiple interceptions in a game.
* Jacob Pedersen now has 16t touchdown receptions, tying him for 7th place on UW's all-time list. * Wisconsin had at least two 100-yard rushers for the fourth time this season.
* The Badgers had over 500 yards total offense for the fourth time in six games as well.
* Melvin Gordon had a career-high 22 carries.
* Gordon now has three runs of 70+ yards this season.
* Derek Watt had his first career touchdown.
* Jeff Duckworth had more than one reception in a game for the first time since he had seven against Oregon State in last season's second game – a game in which Jared Abbrederis was also hurt.

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