{"id":5689,"date":"2011-12-05T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:43:43","slug":"big-ten-championship-game-wisconsin-michigan-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=5689","title":{"rendered":"BIG TEN Championship Game: Wisconsin – Michigan State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn Friday we drove down to Indianapolis for the inaugural BIG TEN Championship game at\u00a0Lucas Oil Stadium<\/a>\u00a0between Wisconsin and Michigan State. I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen a Football game indoors. That stadium was great, though I would prefer an outdoor game. We had decent seats in the upper level and I don’t believe there’s a bad seat in the house.<\/p>\n

The crowd was evenly split between Michigan State and Wisconsin fans and there were a good portion of other BIG TEN fans throughout the stadium. To start the game they had both bands merge and play the National Anthem which was a nice touch. I’ve never been to a bowl game so this was a unique experience to see this many fans from different teams at one game. With the game going back and forth throughout, the momentum of the crowd would shift accordingly. I liked how they set the bands up near the corner of opposite end zones.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin took an early lead and then Michigan State rallied by way of going for the two point conversion and carried the lead until late in the game. Wisconsin converted a 4th and 7 and then went ahead for good. Michigan State attempted a late rally but took the penalty you can’t take just as they were about to get the ball back. Wisconsin held on for the won\u00a042-39 comeback win<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe inaugural BIG TEN Championship game had an attendance of\u00a064,152. \u00a0The other championship games had the following attendance:<\/p>\n

ACC –\u00a073,675
\nPAC 12 –\u00a059,376
\nConference USA –\u00a032,413
\nBIG 12 – 58,141 (defacto title game between Oklahoma State – Oklahoma)<\/p>\n

Considering Wisconsin and Michigan State aren’t quite the ‘marquee<\/a>‘ teams in the BIG TEN I thought it was a great showing and an amazing game atmosphere. I can only imagine what an Ohio State – Michigan Title game would be like.<\/p>\n

Side Notes:
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\n* The View From My Seat.<\/p>\n

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\n** BIG TEN 2011 award winners: Marvin McNutt – Iowa, David Milk – Michigan, Brett Maher – Northwestern, Braxton Miller – Ohio State and Devon Still – Penn State.<\/p>\n

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\n*** Gatorade Shower, Coaches Handshake, and Trophy Presentation.<\/p>\n

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\n**** This was the scene before the game in the Men’s Room. \u00a0Clearly this Wisconsin fan was a little concerned about the badgers chances.<\/p>\n

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\n***** This young man just finished punching the blue plaque behind his seat approximately 20 times after Michigan State was flagged for ‘running into the kicker’ to\u00a0effectively end the game.<\/p>\n

***** The complete set of my photographs from the game can be found on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday we drove down to Indianapolis for the inaugural BIG TEN Championship game at\u00a0Lucas Oil Stadium\u00a0between Wisconsin and Michigan State. I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen a Football game indoors. That stadium was great, though I would prefer an outdoor game. We had decent seats in the upper level and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-1tL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}