{"id":1712,"date":"2005-08-29T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2005-08-29T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T00:00:25","slug":"wisconsin_badge_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Badgers vs. Bowling Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwbadgers.com\/sport_news\/fb\/schedule\/schd.aspx?sport=fb\">opener<\/a> looks like a tough match for the home team.  Bowling Green&#8217;s quarterback passed for over 4,000 yards last year with only 4 interceptions.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/28\/sports\/ncaafootball\/28spread.html?ex=1282881600&#038;en=5f2f7399632e516d&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Pete Thamel disects<\/a> Bowling Green&#8217;s &#8220;devastating&#8221; spread offense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Now, the offenses Meyer and Brandon will run will be conceptually similar but vastly different. Brandon&#8217;s quarterback, Omar Jacobs, had a more productive year than Smith last season, passing for 4,002 yards while throwing 41 touchdown passes and only 4 interceptions.<br \/>\nJacobs, a junior, landed at Bowling Green after a quarterback backed out on his commitment 10 days before signing day. Meyer called every quarterbacks coach he knew to see if there were any unsigned quarterbacks. He got a tip from a coach at Kansas State on a towering quarterback with an unorthodox throwing motion in South Florida &#8211; Jacobs.<br \/>\nMullen was recruiting in Michigan and drove to Notre Dame, where Meyer used to be an assistant, to watch film of Jacobs. The next night, Meyer was in Jacobs&#8217;s living room making a pitch for Bowling Green. Jacobs bit, and four years later is considered a Heisman Trophy contender.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s opener looks like a tough match for the home team. Bowling Green&#8217;s quarterback passed for over 4,000 yards last year with only 4 interceptions. Pete Thamel disects Bowling Green&#8217;s &#8220;devastating&#8221; spread offense: Now, the offenses Meyer and Brandon will run will be conceptually similar but vastly different. Brandon&#8217;s quarterback, Omar Jacobs, had a more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}