Bret Bielema’s football team has caught the attention of the pollsters.
All it took for the University of Wisconsin to return to the top 20 in both polls for the first time since the end of the 2005 season was four consecutive Big Ten Conference victories, by an average of 31 points.
One day after UW whipped Purdue, 24-3, the Badgers on Sunday moved up four spots in each poll, to No. 17 in the Associated Press poll and to No. 18 in the USA Today poll.