Returning with a bang
Dayne scores 3 TDs as Wisconsin blanks Ohio
Posted: Saturday September 12, 1998 05:52 PM
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After rushing for 111 yards, Dayne needs 33 yards in his 26th game next week to become the Badgers' career rushing leader AP |
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Ron Dayne didn't become Wisconsin's
all-time leading rusher Saturday because the Badgers only needed
him for part-time duty.
Dayne, who sat out the opener with a sprained right ankle,
returned to the lineup and rushed for three touchdowns as the
17th-ranked Badgers whipped Ohio 45-0 before 75,676 at Camp
Randall, the largest crowd ever to see the Bobcats of the
Mid-American Conference.
Dayne rushed 20 times for 111 yards. But with the blowout secure
by the third quarter thanks to the bruising tailback and a
dominating defense, Dayne returned to the sideline and Billy
Marek's school rushing record was safe for another week.
Not that Dayne cares.
"I don't even know what the record is," Dayne said.
Dayne, a junior, needs 33 yards in his 26th game next week
against UNLV to become the Badgers' career rushing leader,
surpassing Marek, who had 3,709 rushing yards from 1973-75.
Dayne scored on runs of 9, 5 and 1 yards before leaving with
Wisconsin safely on top 31-0 with six minutes left in the third
quarter.
"You really need about nine guys in the box to try to slow that
big guy down," Ohio coach Jim Grobe lamented.
The Badgers (2-0), who held San Diego State to 58 yards rushing
in the opener, stifled Ohio's triple option attack, limiting the
Bobcats (0-2) to 65 yards on 38 attempts.
Quarterback Kareem Wilson rushed 11 times for 3 yards and
tailback Steveland Hookfin gained just 19 yards on eight carries.
Wisconsin allowed just 102 total yards, the lowest figure in
coach Barry Alvarez's nine-year tenure and the fifth-lowest in
school history.
The Bobcats came into the game as the No. 1-ranked rushing team
in the nation on the heels of a 361-yard effort in a 34-31 loss to
North Carolina State.
They had nowhere to run Saturday, reaching Wisconsin territory
just once, and not getting beyond the Badgers 31 at that.
The Bobcats, who outplayed NC State last week and nearly upset
Kansas State last year, had high hopes for a stunner in front of
74,676 at Camp Randall, the biggest crowd they'd ever seen.
But the Badgers took charge from the kickoff.
Dayne carried six times for 49 yards on the Badgers' opening
possession, scoring on a 9-yard run around right end after a pitch
from Mike Samuel for a 7-0 lead.
"From the start of the game I felt real good," Dayne said. "I
got my first TD and ran over a guy and felt I was back. I love
running over guys."
The Badgers had to go 34 only yards in five plays to make it
14-0. Freshman Carlos Daniels, a third-string tailback who filled
in for Dayne and Eddie Faulkner (shoulder) last week, took it in
from six yards.
Freshman Nick Davis' 46-yard punt return to the Ohio 44 set up
Wisconsin's third score, a 25-yard field goal by Matt Davenport
that made it 17-0 at the half.
Dayne's second and third TDs came after Ohio had consecutive
three-and-out possessions to start the second half.
He bulled in from five yards, taking the pile with him into the
end zone for a 24-0 lead, and added a 1-yard scamper that made it
31-0 with six minutes left in the third quarter.
Dayne, who vomited on the sideline after his last touchdown, was
done for the day. But the Badgers weren't.
Ohio didn't make it into Badgers territory until its eighth
possession, and that drive ended when freshman backup quarterback
Dan Jordan, who took over for ineffective Kareem Wilson, badly
underthrew Trendale Perkins on fourth down.
After Bobcats punt returner Raynald Ray fumbled at his 15 and
freshman Joey Boese recovered for Wisconsin, Scott Kavanagh hit
Chad Kuhns with a 4-yard touchdown pass that made it 38-0.
Kuhns decided to play despite the death of his father, Russell,
from a heart attack Friday night in Bellevue, Ohio.
"It was a very emotional situation at the hotel last night,"
Alvarez said. "He and his family felt that it was important for
him to stay and play."
"He and his dad are in our prayers," Samuel said. "And it was
really great that he got that touchdown."
Boese intercepted Jordan's pass at the Badgers 47 on the
Bobcats' next drive, setting up Marcus Carpenter's acrobatic
11-yard TD catch from Kavanagh that capped the scoring.
"We were a better team than they were. Our kids executed,"
Alvarez said. "One of our goals going into this game was to leave
the field a better team than we were a week ago, and I felt that
happened. I expect that to happen again next week."
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