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  Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell lost three more players to the transfer portal on Tuesday. However, it appears sophomore tailback Braelon Allen intends to return to UW in 2023. Tailback/returner Isaac Guerendo, reserve defensive back Semar Melvin and reserve tight end Jaylan Franklin have decided to leave UW. Not long after those developments, Allen wrote on Twitter: "Sources tell me Braelon Allen is a Wisconsin Badger." Allen, a consensus second-team, all-Big Ten pick, rushed for 208 times for 1,126 yards and 10 touchdowns in 11 regular-season games. - Journal Sentinel

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  11/28/22 - John PiusSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

  2022 ALL-CAA FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM: John Pius, William & Mary, LB, So.,...Buck Buchanan Award finalist for national defensive player of the year...Ranks third nationally and first in the CAA in sacks (11.5)...Needs just a half sack to equal the single-season school record...Ranks fifth nationally and first in the CAA in TFL (19)...Leads the team in tackles (69) and quarterback hurries (12)...Two-time CAA Defensive Player of the Week this season. - William & Mary Football

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  Wisconsin is bringing Cincinnati's Luke Fickell back to the Big Ten. Athletic director Chris McIntosh announced Sunday that the Badgers had hired Fickell to take over their football program after a successful run with the Bearcats. Fickell posted a 57-18 record in six seasons at Cincy and helped the Bearcats earn a College Football Playoff berth last year. The former Ohio State defensive lineman went 6-7 as the Buckeyes' interim coach in 2011 after Jim Tressel's resignation. "This is a destination job at a program that I have admired from afar for years," Fickell said in a statement released by the university. "I am in total alignment with Chris McIntosh's vision for this program. There is a tremendous foundation here that I can't wait to build upon." Fickell informed the Bearcats players earlier Sunday that he was leaving the school. A person with knowledge of Fickell's decision told The Associated Press that veteran assistant coach Kerry Coombs was being named interim coach of the Bearcats.

Fickell, 49, takes over for interim coach and former Badgers star player Jim Leonhard, who replaced Paul Chryst on Oct. 2. Chryst went 67-26 in 7 1/2 seasons. He was fired one day after the Badgers lost 34-10 at home to an Illinois team led by former Badgers coach Bret Bielema. "Luke is one of the top football coaches in the country. He is a proven winner, recruiter and developer of players," McIntosh said in a statement. "Equally as important, he shares our values. Coach Fickell is focused on giving our student-athletes the best opportunities possible and is attuned to the changing landscape of college athletics. "I have every confidence that he will respect and honor the foundation that has been set for our football program over the years while embracing the exciting opportunities ahead." Wisconsin (6-6, 4-5 Big Ten) is awaiting its bowl assignment. A loss in the bowl game would cause the Badgers to finish below .500 for the first time since 2001. - AP College Football


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  11/22/22 - John PiusSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

  2022 CAA DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: John Pius, William & Mary,...Pius was one of the top pass rushers in FCS this season, ranking third nationally with 11.5 sacks and fifth with 19.0 tackles for loss. The sophomore linebacker also led William & Mary with 69 total tackles and contributed 12 quarterback hurries and three pass breakups. He recorded at least one TFL in 10 of his 11 contests and registered a sack in seven games, including a career-high 3.5 sacks at Lafayette. Pius was part of a Tribe defense that allowed just 20.4 points per game. - CAA Football

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  11/21/22 - John PiusSr/2025, Wisconsin + More +

  NOV 21 CAA FOOTBALL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: John Pius, So., LB, William & Mary (Arlington, Va./Yorktown),...Pius recorded a career-high 10 tackles, 2.0 tackles for loss, a sack and two quarterback hurries as William & Mary defeated Richmond, 37-26, to claim a share of the CAA title. The linebacker was part of a Tribe defense that tallied five sacks and held UR to 63 yards rushing. Pius leads the CAA and ranks 3rd in FCS with 11.5 sacks and also leads the league with 19.0 TFL's. - CAA Football

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  2022 ALL-GLIAC FIRST TEAM: DB Nyzier Fourqurean, Grand Valley State, So.,...The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference announced the football postseason awards and the 2022 Grand Valley State Lakers were well represented. The 2022 GLIAC Champion Lakers tallied four positional Player of the Year Awards and 22 total All-GLIAC honorees, including eleven first-team performers. Fourqurean notched 31 total tackles (22 solo/9 assisted), one interception and a GVSU-best 10 pass break-ups. - Grand Valley State Football

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  Tanner Mordecai threw his two touchdown passes in a 21-point third quarter and SMU became bowl eligible with a 41-23 win over South Florida on Saturday, the Bulls' eighth-straight loss. USF, which fired coach Jeff Scott and defensive coordinator Bob Shoop last Sunday, played a spirited first half under interim coach Daniel Da Prato, scoring 10 late points to tie the game at 17 at halftime. But it was the Mustangs, under first-year head coach Rhett Lashlee, who took control to earn a probable bowl trip for the fourth-straight year. The Mustangs went 97 yards in six plays with their first possession of the third quarter, taking the lead on a 21-yard pass to Rashee Rice. Their next drive was one play, Mordecai finding Jordan Kerley down the middle for a 70-yard touchdown.

SMU (6-4, 4-2 American Athletic Conference) capped the game-changing quarter with Tyler Lavine's 8-yard touchdown running after the Bulls turned the ball over on downs. Mordecai finished 19 of 27 for 280 yards. Lavine and Camar Wheaton, who scored two touchdowns in the first half, both ran for 112 yards. Kerley had seven catches for 156 and Rice six for 99. Brian Battie ran for 145 yards for the Bulls (1-9, 0-6). Katravis Marsh threw a touchdown pass to Xavier Weaver, but Marsh was taken from the field on the stretcher after lowering his head on a run with less than six minutes to go in the game. Jason Albritton ran for a score and Byrum Brown threw his first college touchdown pass, hitting Jayson Littlejohn inside the last two minutes for the Bulls. - SMU/AP College Football


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  Tanner Mordecai's eye-popping numbers in SMU's record-setting win over Houston were amassed in an incredibly efficient manner. The Mustangs' 77-63 win on Saturday set the NCAA record for most combined points in a regulation game, and Mordecai was responsible for 60. Mordecai became the fifth Bowl Subdivision player to throw for seven touchdowns in a half and he finished with nine, the most since Washington State's Anthony Gordon passed for the same number against UCLA in 2019. Mordecai needed only 37 attempts to achieve his feat; Gordon had 61. One of the fifth-year quarterback's eight runs also went for a touchdown, making him responsible for 10 TDs - the most since at least 2000, according to Sportradar - on just 45 total offense attempts. Mordecai has 25 TD passes on 300 attempts this season, an 8.3% rate that ranks third among quarterbacks with at least that many attempts. - AP College Football

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  NOV 7 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tanner Mordecai, Sr., QB, SMU,...Mordecai added to the SMU, American Athletic Conference and NCAA record books in the Mustangs' 77-63 win against Houston. He went 28 of 37 for 379 yards and a school-and conference-record nine touchdown passes with one rushing TD to figure in 10 total touchdowns. Mordecai tied an NCAA record with seven first-half touchdown passes and became the first player in FBS history with seven touchdown passes and a touchdown run in a half. Mordecai was also named as the Walter Camp National Player of the Week. - American Athletic Conference Football

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  NOV 6 WALTER CAMP NATIONAL OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: TANNER MORDECAI, SMU, Senior, Quarterback, Waco, TX/Midway HS,...Tanner Mordecai set a school record and tied a Football Bowl Subdivision record with nine touchdown passes as SMU outlasted Houston, 77-63. It was the highest scoring regulation game in FBS history. Mordecai had seven touchdown passes in the first half, and finished the game completing 28-of-37 for 379 yards. He also added 54 rushing yards and one touchdown. With the victory, SMU improved to 5-4. Notes: Tanner Mordecai is the fifth SMU player to earn Walter Camp National Player of Week honors since the award started in 2004, and the first since former Mustang quarterback Shane Buechele (Oct. 20, 2019). - The Walter Camp Football Foundation

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  Tanner Mordecai set a school record with nine touchdown passes - seven coming in the first half - and SMU's offense exploded for a 77-63 win over Houston on Saturday. As a point of reference, Houston's men's basketball team beat SMU's 75-61 on Feb. 27. On the gridiron, their combined 140 points broke the NCAA single-scoring game record for two teams in regulation when Pitt beat Syracuse 76-61 on Nov. 26, 2016 to combine for 137 points. SMU reached school records with 77 points in a game, 11-total touchdowns, nine passing scored and 433 total yards in the first half.

The Mustangs (5-4, 3-2 American Athletic Conference) scored touchdowns on their first nine drives of the game and didn't punt until their 10th drive with 5:30 left before the end of the third quarter. Mordecai also had a 2-yard touchdown run with 8:43 before halftime for a 35-21 lead. The Mustangs needed to keep their foot on the pedal because Houston quarterback Clayton Tune did his best to keep the Cougars (5-4, 3-2) in it, throwing for seven touchdowns and running for another. Tune joined David Klingler, Jimmy Klinger and Andre Ware in Houston's seven-touchdowns-thrown-in-game club. David Klingler reached the mark on three occasions in the 1990 season and holds the all-time school record of 11 also in 1990. - SMU/AP College Football


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  Isaac Guerendo ran for an 89-yard touchdown and combined with Braelon Allen for 233 yards rushing as Wisconsin defeated Maryland 23-10 on Saturday. Wisconsin (5-4, 3-3 Big Ten) improved to 3-1 under interim head coach Jim Leonhard, who was promoted from defensive coordinator after the firing of Paul Chryst last month. With rainy and windy conditions severely hindering each team's ability to throw the ball, Wisconsin's superior ground attack made the difference. Allen rushed for 119 yards on 23 carries and gave the Badgers the lead for good with a 9-yard touchdown that opened the scoring late in the first period. Guerendo ran 12 times for a career-high 114 yards, including the 89-yard score that made it 14-0 in the second quarter.

Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa entered the day having completed 72.5% of his passes to rank fourth among all Football Bowl Subdivision players, but he went 10 of 23 for just 77 yards and was sacked five times. The lone touchdown for Maryland (6-3, 3-3) came on a 5-yard completion from Tagovailoa to Tai Felton with 57 seconds left in the game. Wisconsin's Graham Mertz was 5 of 18 for 77 yards. The Badgers' defense benefited from the return of Big Ten sacks leader Nick Herbig and safety Hunter Wohler to end Maryland's string of 10 straight games in which it had scored at least 27 points. Herbig had missed Wisconsin's 35-24 victory over Purdue two weeks ago with a knee issue, while Wohler hadn't played since suffering a leg injury in the season opener. Herbig had two of Wisconsin's five sacks to increase his season total to eight. Wohler recorded Wisconsin's 15th interception of the season in the fourth quarter. Neither team got a single first down through the first five possessions of the game while dealing with the poor weather before Wisconsin broke through late in the first quarter. The rain was intermittent after the first quarter, but the wind swirled all day. - Wisconsin/AP College Football


Jr/2024 RB Braelon AllenWisconsin
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  OCT 24 BIG TEN DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: John Torchio, Wisconsin, S - Sr. - Lafayette, Calif. - Campolindo,...Picked off a pair of passes in Wisconsin's win over Purdue, including a first-quarter interception that he returned for a touchdown...The first Badger to record two interceptions and return one for a score in the same game since Natrell Jamerson did so against Northwestern in 2016...Totaled a career-high 10 tackles, a team high in the win...The three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree earns the first Defensive Player of the Week accolade of his career...Last Wisconsin Defensive Player of the Week: Kamo'I Latu (Oct. 10, 2022). - Big Ten Football

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  Graham Mertz threw for two touchdowns, Braelon Allen rushed for 113 yards and a score and Wisconsin defeated Purdue 35-24 on Saturday. John Torchio had two interceptions, including a 31-yard return for a touchdown for the Badgers (4-4, 2-3 Big Ten Conference), who rebounded from a 34-28 double overtime loss at Michigan State. The game marked the first home win for Wisconsin interim coach Jim Leonhard, who took over for Paul Chryst on Oct. 2. Allen, who surpassed 100 yards for the fifth time this season, went to the injury tent late in the third quarter with a left arm injury but returned in the fourth. Mertz went 13 of 21 for 203 yards with two touchdowns for the Badgers, who have won 16 straight games against Purdue.

Purdue's four-game winning streak was snapped and the Boilermakers (6-2, 3-2 Big Ten) fell one game behind Illinois for the lead in the Big Ten West standings. The Badgers scored on their opening drive as Mertz threw a 29-yard touchdown strike to Skyler Bell. Less than one minute later, Torchio picked off Aidan O'Connell and dashed 31 yards for a touchdown. for the score that increased Wisconsin's lead to 14-0. Mertz capped an 80-yard drive with a three-yard pass to Chimere Dike and it was 21-0 after one quarter. Allen's 14-yard touchdown made it 28-3 in the first minute of the second half. The Boilermakers capitalized on an fumble get a short field, scoring an an eight-yard pass from from O'Connell to Payne Durham. But that was quickly negated with a 54-yard burst by Isaac Guerendo 90 seconds later. Devin Mockobee ran for 108 yards and a touchdown for Purdue with O'Connella going 31 of 46 for 320 yards. - Wisconsin/AP College Football


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  OCT 17 MAC EAST DIVISION SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Nathanial Vakos, Ohio, Kicker, Freshman, Avon, Ohio (Avon),...Vakos had another successful game for the Bobcats, going 3-for-3 on PATs and 4-for-5 on field goals. The freshman's strong game was highlighted by a 55-yard field goal, marking a personal career high as well as tying him for the third-longest field goal in program history. - MAC Football

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