[Red State]

C'mon now Red State, that Rose Bowl team was crippled due to injuries.  Think both the "ironman" center and Walters were hurt and either didn't play or shouldn't have played.  [IIRC, the OL played one snap and then sat; Walters was hobbling around out there with some kind of injury].

The bottom line is that the O was not the same squad we saw all season.

But I'll give you that Wiscy controlled the ball more - as did a lot of team that year against Stanford, which had a mediocre (occasional big-play) D.  The O carried that team to the Rose Bowl.  Imagine that . . .

Stanford's defense was statistically horrible, among the bottom 10 in the country. The pass defense was especially bad. The O did carry the team, and that tells you how bad the P10 was in '99. The laughing stock of the country.

Sheen did play his butt off that day, but Ron Dayne still rushed for 200 yards. Wisconsin's ground game methodically wore down a game Stanford team...just like Stanford has done to most of its opponents during this stretch of the greatest success in the history of Stanford football.

[Red State]

C'mon now Red State, that Rose Bowl team was crippled due to injuries.  Think both the "ironman" center and Walters were hurt and either didn't play or shouldn't have played.  [IIRC, the OL played one snap and then sat; Walters was hobbling around out there with some kind of injury].

The bottom line is that the O was not the same squad we saw all season.

But I'll give you that Wiscy controlled the ball more - as did a lot of team that year against Stanford, which had a mediocre (occasional big-play) D.  The O carried that team to the Rose Bowl.  Imagine that . . .

Stanford's defense was statistically horrible, among the bottom 10 in the country. The pass defense was especially bad. The O did carry the team, and that tells you how bad the P10 was in '99. The laughing stock of the country.

Sheen did play his butt off that day, but Ron Dayne still rushed for 200 yards. Wisconsin's ground game methodically wore down a game Stanford team...just like Stanford has done to most of its opponents during this stretch of the greatest success in the history of Stanford football.