Fresh off a shocking 24-21 loss at Maryland, Wisconsin Badgers head coach Luke Fickell took to the podium.
"Well we didn't do anything well enough today to win," he said in his opening statement. "That's the hard part."
Fickell continued, "You can't go on the road in this league and think that you're going to be able to play that way and win a football game."
"Turn the ball over, not be able to rush the football, and give up some big plays, it's impossible."
Fickell said, "There's some things that really, really hurt on this one. We took some serious injuries. Guys went down, made it more difficult on us, but that's no excuse."
"All-in-all, we didn't get it done," he added. "It's hard to sit here and make any excuse of any sorts. We're a better football
team than that but we didn't show it today."
Wisconsin finished the game an abysmal 2/12 on third down, ending the game with just 201 total yards of offense.
Offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes put up his worst showing of the year, and that says a lot as this team was previously shutout at Iowa a few weeks ago.
Three lost fumbles harmed this team far more than any injuries, and in the end Maryland found a way to overcome 111 penalty yards to get the job done.
Wisconsin falls to 6-4 (4-3) and heads to Purdue on Saturday, Nov. 21.
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