LAS VEGAS — After reviewing the University of Wisconsin football team’s season-opening victory over Bowling Green last season in his head coaching debut, Bret Bielema pointed out that a team typically makes its biggest amount of improvement between its first and second games.
That didn’t happen. The Badgers won the following week to improve to 2-0, but they were far from impressive during a 34-10 victory over Western Illinois, a Division I-AA outfit.
It didn’t happen this season, either. The Badgers escaped Sam Boyd Stadium with a 20-13 victory over UNLV Saturday night, but this wasn’t the step forward UW (2-0) had hoped to take after opening the season with a 21-point victory at home against Washington State the previous week.
Of course, it could have been worse.