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Badgers get redemption shot in Big Ten title game

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Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema, left, and Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini chat prior to their game in Lincoln. With Ohio State and Penn State both ineligible for the postseason, though, Wisconsin will represent the Leaders Division in the title game. Wisconsin plays No. 14 Nebraska on Saturday in the Big Ten Championship.

Associated Press/Sept. 29, 2012

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Wisconsin is in some unfamiliar territory. No, not the Big Ten title game. The Badgers count as grizzled veterans after playing in last year's inaugural conference championship, well acquainted with all the hype and hoopla that comes with it. It's being so, well, mediocre, that's new for Wisconsin. Winners of the Big Ten title the last two years, the Badgers are getting a chance at the first three-peat in school history Saturday — by default.