Wisconsin is a team that prides itself on execution, on playing the role of executioners. Somewhere along the line Saturday, it hit the wrong switch. We had chances. But they were self-inflicted wounds. It was very uncharacteristic of our team and we need to get it fixed.
Penalties are hard to overcome.
That's why we preach being a smart football team, being a disciplined football team. It's hard to win when you beat yourself. The easy out here would be to say the Badgers were caught peering into the future, dismissing a team that had lost to a Division I-AA opponent at home while Michigan awaited on the horizon in next week's Big Ten opener. If that was the case, though, nobody would admit to it. And that's a good thing.