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Column: Wisconsin football has a spark, but isn't nearly hot enough to topple top programs

Wisconsin football got steamrolled in Bloomington, Indiana, for the Badgers’ sixth loss in Big Ten play and their fifth blowout loss of the season.

A game that looked shockingly close at halftime, with the Hoosiers clinging to a 10-7 lead, quickly dissolved into a beatdown for the home team in the second half. Indiana, not typically one to play with its food under its second-year mastermind of a head coach, Curt Cignetti, took advantage of Wisconsin’s mistakes and ran away with the game to move to 11-0.

And yet, even as the Badgers crawled to another lopsided loss, the same embers that fueled the fire of Wisconsin’s stunning upset of Washington burned brightly against Indiana.