After turning off the microphone as the analyst for the Badger Radio Network, UWBadgers.com Insider Mike Lucas offers some final thoughts on Wisconsin's 70-31 win over Nebraska at Lucas Oil Stadium.
They call it the "Zebra'' formation; an exaggerated shift which is designed to put doubt into a defense. It worked to perfection; like just about everything else against Nebraska. This was the perfect storm, as the Rematch for Redemption was a mismatch.
It was not an old-fashioned butt-kicking as much as it was a "new'' fashioned butt-kicking in that the Badgers unveiled some new looks, and tweaked some old ones, which kept the Cornhuskers off balance and guessing from the very beginning.
Not only did Nebraska have trouble communicating on defense, but it couldn't tackle what it couldn't catch. The Badgers put their speed in space: Montee Ball, James White and Melvin Gordon and the Huskers were clueless in their adjustments.
The unorthodox formations compounded their problems.
