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The Wisconsin football team that the Gophers will face Saturday won’t be contending for a College Football Playoff berth, as it had hoped. The Badgers aren’t in the mix for a Big Ten title or a West Division crown, either. And at 7-4, they won’t have a chance at a fourth consecutive season of at least 10 victories under coach Paul Chryst.
But what the Badgers will have on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium is a dangerous player largely regarded as the best running back in college football: Jonathan Taylor.
On Monday, Taylor was one of three players named as a finalist for the Doak Walker Award, which goes to the nation’s top running back. The 5-foot-11, 221-pound sophomore leads all FBS rushers with 1,869 yards — nearly 350 yards ahead of his nearest pursuer. He is averaging 169.9 rushing yards per game and has 15 touchdown runs.
“They’re going to put everything behind Taylor,” Gophers coach P.J. Fleck said of the Badgers. “They’re going to make sure he leads them to do everything — pass game, play-action game. He’s a tremendous, tremendous football player.”
That was on display Saturday at Purdue, where Taylor rushed 33 times for a career-high 321 yards in Wisconsin’s 47-44, triple-overtime victory. He rushed for three touchdowns — an 80-yarder in the third quarter, a 12-yarder in the first overtime and the winning 17-yarder in the third OT.
“I gave everything for my teammates. We’ve been through so much this season,” Taylor said. “I want to send the seniors off right, so I’m doing everything in my power to get them out of here with a win. It took everything I had.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-seek-a-way-to-slow-down-wisconsin-s-jonathan-taylor/500887461/
Go Gophers!!
The Wisconsin football team that the Gophers will face Saturday won’t be contending for a College Football Playoff berth, as it had hoped. The Badgers aren’t in the mix for a Big Ten title or a West Division crown, either. And at 7-4, they won’t have a chance at a fourth consecutive season of at least 10 victories under coach Paul Chryst.
But what the Badgers will have on Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium is a dangerous player largely regarded as the best running back in college football: Jonathan Taylor.
On Monday, Taylor was one of three players named as a finalist for the Doak Walker Award, which goes to the nation’s top running back. The 5-foot-11, 221-pound sophomore leads all FBS rushers with 1,869 yards — nearly 350 yards ahead of his nearest pursuer. He is averaging 169.9 rushing yards per game and has 15 touchdown runs.
“They’re going to put everything behind Taylor,” Gophers coach P.J. Fleck said of the Badgers. “They’re going to make sure he leads them to do everything — pass game, play-action game. He’s a tremendous, tremendous football player.”
That was on display Saturday at Purdue, where Taylor rushed 33 times for a career-high 321 yards in Wisconsin’s 47-44, triple-overtime victory. He rushed for three touchdowns — an 80-yarder in the third quarter, a 12-yarder in the first overtime and the winning 17-yarder in the third OT.
“I gave everything for my teammates. We’ve been through so much this season,” Taylor said. “I want to send the seniors off right, so I’m doing everything in my power to get them out of here with a win. It took everything I had.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-seek-a-way-to-slow-down-wisconsin-s-jonathan-taylor/500887461/
Go Gophers!!