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The
Wisconsin Badgers
college football team
competes as part of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) Division I
Football Bowl Subdivision
, representing the
University of Wisconsin?Madison
in the West Division of the
Big Ten Conference
. Wisconsin was one of seven original founding members of the Big Ten Conference, then known as the Western Conference, in 1896. Wisconsin has played their home games at
Camp Randall Stadium
in
Madison
,
Wisconsin
since 1917.
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Since the team's first season in 1889, the Badgers have participated in more than 1,100 officially sanctioned games, including 34 bowl games, and have finished in the top 25 of the national polls 27 times.
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Wisconsin is one of 26 college football programs to win 700 or more games.
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Since 1993, the Badgers have appeared in 27 bowl games in 29 seasons and won at least a share of the conference championship six times.
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Seasons
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Notes
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After Dave McClain's death on April 28, 1986, Hilles was named interim head football coach for the 1986 season.
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Michigan State self-forfeited all wins in the 1994 season, resulting in Wisconsin's 1994 loss to Michigan State being retroactively changed to a win.
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On December 5, 2012, the day after the 2012 Big Ten Championship Game, Badgers head coach Bret Bielema announced he would be leaving to take the Arkansas head coaching position and revealed to the media that Barry Alvarez would be the interim coach for the Badgers in the 2013 Rose Bowl.
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Several days after the Big Ten Championship game in early December, head coach Gary Andersen stepped down to become the head coach at Oregon State of the Pac-12 Conference. Athletic director and former Badger head coach Barry Alvarez was the interim head coach for the
Outback Bowl
against
Auburn
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The Badgers were led by head coach Paul Chryst, who was in his eighth season as head coach, until his dismissal on October 2. Defensive coordinator
Jim Leonhard
assumed interim head coaching duties after the dismissal of Chryst.
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