“Though it’s tempting, you can’t exactly call what happened to the Penn State Nittany Lions last night a crossroads game. Too many more just like it are all too possible before this year’s out.
“On second thought, maybe you could refer to it that way. The Lions crossed the road. And the Wisconsin Badgers were a broadsiding semi.
“No. 18 Wisconsin applied a wire-to-wire beating to the young Nits reminiscent of the mid-’80s Bruce Parkhill era, a destruction so thorough and relentless that it immediately reminded of just how far this program must come to approach the Big Ten’s elite.
And the Badgers’ 76-50 knockout made plain they are just that. …”