The 2016 season's largest margin: Wisconsin 48, Illinois 3. A 45-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Top-10 Year
Wisconsin finished 2016 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Alex HornibrookQB1,262 passing yards
- Bart HoustonQB1,245 passing yards
- Corey ClementRB1,375 rushing yards
- Dare OgunbowaleRB506 rushing yards
- Bradrick ShawRB457 rushing yards
- Jazz PeavyWR635 receiving yards
- Troy FumagalliTE580 receiving yards
- Rob WheelwrightWR448 receiving yards
- T.J. EdwardsILB89 tackles
- Leo MussoS74 tackles
- T.J. WattOLB63 tackles
- Vince BiegelOLB4 sacks
- Alec JamesDE3.5 sacks
- Garret DooleyOLB3.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Wisconsin 7, Michigan 14. A 7-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Wisconsin beat Western Michigan 24-16 in the postseason.
"On Wisconsin"
2016 is a middle chapter for Wisconsin — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.