One of the most enduring images from Barry Alvarez’s tenure as Wisconsin football coach was the scene at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 1994.
Alvarez’s underdog Badger team had just upset UCLA 21-16 for Wisconsin’s first-ever Rose Bowl win. The estimated 70,000 Badger fans who had turned the stadium – normally UCLA’s home field – into Camp Randall West were cheering amid a flurry of flashbulbs as the team jogged a victory lap.
Everywhere you looked, there was red.