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1,000 yards. Now, it appears, Robinson may be picking up some of the slack at tailback against South Carolina. Robinson has been used in various roles on offense since returning from an injury of his own late in the season, lining up at quarterback, running back and receiver while quarterbackturned-receiver-turned-quarterback Devin Gardner has started under center. Tom Campbell Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez will coach the Badgers in the Rose Bowl, after Bret Bielema left for Arkansas. have been the trendy picks to be in Pasadena for New Year���s Day with both teams saddled with multiple losses by midseason. Wisconsin becomes the first five-loss team to appear in the Rose Bowl after its drubbing of Nebraska in the Big Ten Championship game earlier this month. Both Wisconsin and Stanford are making their third consecutive BCS bowl appearances. Stanford appeared in the Fiesta and Orange bowls the last two years. Michigan State sported one of the nation���s top overall defenses this season, but they will likely be without one of their top secondary players when they play TCU this weekend. Two-time all-conference cornerback Johnny Adams is expected to miss the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl after suffering a toe injury that has forced him to miss practice throughout the week. Michigan will be employing a running back-by-committee approach to their bowl game in the absence of injured junior Fitzgerald Toussaint. A year ago, Toussaint and quarterback Denard Robinson were the only pair in the nation to both rush for more than Northwestern will have the chance to end a couple lengthy streaks with a win over Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl next week. A victory would give the Wildcats their first 10-win season since their Big Ten title season of 1995, which was head coach Pat Fitzgerald���s senior season at Northwestern. Fitzgerald has had a direct hand in a majority of Northwestern���s bowl appearances, playing in a pair of bowls in 1995 and 1996 before coaching the Wildcats to bowls in the past five seasons. Northwestern has appeared in 11 bowls all-time. A win on Tuesday would also be the first bowl victory for Northwestern since the 1948 Rose Bowl, a streak of nine consecutive bowl losses. Nebraska is in familiar territory in Orlando for next week���s Capital One Bowl against Georgia, with this year���s appearance marking the fourth time in nine years the Cornhuskers have competed in the bowl. The Cornhuskers will be looking to avoid back-to-back losses to end the 2012 campaign after losing to Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship game. It would be the first back-to-back losses for Nebraska since 2010, which was also the last time it appeared in a conference championship game; the Cornhuskers ended that season with a defeat in the Big 12 title game to Oklahoma before losing to Washington in the Holiday Bowl. j on the iPad Access Included for all pr subscribeint rs! The iPad app is available at the App store. If you search ���Gold and Black��� you will easily locate. The app is created for your Newsstand app on your iPad and will download directly there. It does NOT download as a separate app on your desktop. The digital edition of Gold & Black Illustrated including 30 issues of Gold & Black EXPRESS includes all the great content you have come to expect plus special features such as video and audio content and the best in social media updates. ��� Immediate delivery ��� no waiting for postal service ��� Searchable archive of back issues ��� Available on desktops and laptops and now optimized for the iPad ��� One-click access through e-mail bulletin which allows easy access. Just make sure we have your e-mail address. Contact us at 1-800-876-GOPU or GNBManager@aol.com if we can answer any questions. GoldanDBlack express ��� volume 23, express 15��� ������ 25

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