Wisconsin holds off Arizona State to win Las Vegas Bowl

Wisconsin led from the opening Thursday night, but had to clasp disconnected a second-half Arizona State rally to triumph the Las Vegas Bowl 20-13 astatine Allegiant Stadium.

An announced assemblage of 32,515 watched the game, the 2nd smallest successful the past 16 Las Vegas Bowls and overmuch little than vessel officials hoped for aboriginal this period earlier the existent COVID-19 surge impacted summons sales. Wisconsin fans stopped buying tickets 10 days earlier the game, according to a vessel official.

This was the archetypal clip the crippled was played astatine Allegiant aft having moved from Sam Boyd Stadium pursuing the 2019 season. Last year’s crippled was not played due to the fact that of COVID-19 issues.

Wisconsin (9-4) dominated from the start, mounting the code connected the game’s opening thrust erstwhile information John Tochio intercepted a walk astatine Arizona State’s 36-yard line. The Badgers capitalized connected the takeaway erstwhile fullback John Chenal rushed for an 8-yard touchdown.

They went up 14-3 connected their adjacent thrust erstwhile Graham Mertz completed a 7-yard TD walk to choky extremity Jake Ferguson, but past struggled to scope the extremity portion aft that.

Arizona State (8-5) chopped Wisconsin’s pb to 20-13 aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th connected Daniyel Ngata’s 3-yard TD run, but the Sun Devils’ adjacent 2 drives stalled astatine the Badgers’ 47.

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