the badgers were playing in the cotton bowl in january 2017.
who is playing in the cotton bowl in january 2017?
the badgers
2017 cotton bowl classic (january)





























the 2017 cotton bowl classic was a college football bowl game played on january 2, 2017, at at&t stadium in arlington, texas. it featured the western michigan broncos from the mid-american conference and the wisconsin badgers from the big ten conference. the 81st cotton bowl classic was one of the new years six bowl games in the college football playoff for the 2016–17 bowl games concluding the 2016 fbs football season.
2017 cotton bowl classic (january)
at the start of his junior season, snead was widely considered as one of the best quarterbacks in the southeastern conference (sec). the rebels began the 2009 season ranked 8 in the ap rankings. just days after the rebels defeated the memphis tigers in their first game of 2009, snead was one of 22 football players who had contracted swine flu. it was not believed that the illness would prevent snead from playing any games. under snead's leadership, the rebels finished the 2009 season 4-4 in the sec and 9-4 overall and the ole miss rebels were again headed for another bowl game. for a consecutive year, the ole miss rebels went to the 2010 cotton bowl classic to play against the oklahoma state cowboys. this was also the second meeting between ole miss and oklahoma state in a cotton bowl classic game. the two teams met in the 2004 cotton bowl classic, which ole miss won 31-28 on the arm of quarterback eli manning. ole miss has the distinction of playing (and winning) in the last ever cotton bowl classic held in the old cotton bowl stadium and playing (and winning) in the first ever cotton bowl classic held in its new home at cowboys at&t stadium. in this 2010 edition of the cotton bowl classic, ole miss defeated oklahoma state by a score of 21-7. with the win, ole miss became the first team to win back-to-back cotton bowl classics since notre dame did so in 1993 and 1994. however, snead playing time gets limited. at the 13:45 minute mark of the second quarter with a score of 0-0, snead throws an interception. while running to tackle the osu player who just received his intercepted pass, he takes a huge blind side "helmet to helmet" hit by osu #10 markelle martin. snead's helmet is knocked from his head and his head hits the ground. he goes down and stays down. no penalty was called. snead sat out the rest of the 1st half and did not get back into the game until the 4th quarter. he was not the same. game passing total only 168 yds. completed 13 of 23 with 3 interceptions. ole miss' running game gets it done and they win 21-7 over osu. back to back cotton bowl wins is not a bad way to end a college career.
jevan snead