Wisconsin - Florida St

the Champs Sports Bowl Saturday, December 27th, 4:30pm Orlando, Florida

Florida State (8-4)______ACC______210.67 Wk Opp oPts Score 2 Western Carolina -425.86 W, 69-0 3 Chattanooga -437.89 W, 46-7 4 Wake Forest 218.86 L, 3-12 5 Colorado -63.26 W, 39-21 6 Miami (FL) 126.74 W, 41-39 8 NC State 102.87 W, 26-17 9 Virginia Tech 274.79 W, 30-20 10 Georgia Tech 276.75 L, 28-31 11 Clemson 128.12 W, 41-27 12 Boston College 253.65 L, 17-27 13 Maryland 52.23 W, 37-3 14 Florida 472.96 L, 15-45

Wisconsin (7-5)______Big10_____43.18 Wk Opp oPts Score 1 Akron -99.62 W, 38-17 2 Marshall -148.36 W, 51-14 3 Fresno State 63.06 W, 13-10 5 Michigan -203.81 L, 25-27 6 Ohio State 310.08 L, 17-20 7 Penn State 373.36 L, 7-48 8 Iowa 150.39 L, 16-38 9 Illinois -34.66 W, 27-17 10 Michigan State 220.54 L, 24-25 11 Indiana -210.04 W, 55-20 12 Minnesota 19.39 W, 35-32 13 Cal Poly SLO -403.62 W, 36-35

The only real blip on the screen here is Wisconsin's loss to Michigan. Other than that, both the Badgers & Seminoles beat who they should've and lost to who they should've.

Stats Matchup
Team	Florida State	Wisconsin
Points (rank)	210.67 (#24)	43.18 (#55)
Record	8-4	7-5
Opp. Points (rank)	979.96 (#8)	36.69 (#55)
Opp. Record	78-48	73-61
Points (% of Opp. Avg)	32.7 (142%)	28.7 (115%)
dPoints (% of Opp. Avg)	20.8 (81%)	25.3 (109%)
Rush Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	182.8 (133%)	212.0 (150%)
dRush Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	126.8 (81%)	133.3 (93%)
Pass Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	185.8 (92%)	192.8 (90%)
dPass Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	164.9 (91%)	189.1 (95%)
Tot Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	368.7 (109%)	404.8 (113%)
dTot Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	291.8 (88%)	322.3 (92%)
ST Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	122.6 (110%)	116.4 (95%)
dST Yds (% of Opp. Avg)	149.3 (125%)	143.5 (117%)
Penalties / Pen. Yds	7.9 / 71.0	5.6 / 49.3
TO's / TO Margin	2.2 / -3	2.3 / -5

The weather should be fine in Orlando, but expect these two to run a lot more than they'll pass. With the penalties & TO's, it might be exciting/ugly.

The Line: Wisconsin +5.5

The Call: Florida State by 7

The Result: Florida State 42-13

Total effort from the Seminoles here, and they're a young team - they'll be able to build on this and the expectation of an ACC title next year is going to be a hard one to fight. But we'll see... Wisconsin still has a long way to go, and this was an especially rough finish to the season that saw them fall the last few months. Things arent't looking good for the Big10.