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Wisconsin tries to avoid second straight loss

Oct 13, 2007 - 10:48 AM No. 19 Wisconsin (5-1) at Penn State (4-2) 3:30 pm EDT

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Ticker) -- Wisconsin's Bret Bielema does not want to experience consecutive defeats for the first time as a coach.

Bielema's 19th-ranked Badgers look to respond to their first loss of the season when they visit Penn State in a Big Ten Conference contest.

Last week, Wisconsin's national-best 14-game winning streak was ended by rising Illinois in Champaign, 31-26.

The Badgers (5-1, 2-1 Big Ten) only lost once last season, Bielema's first as the school's coach.

Tyler Donovan passed for 392 yards and two touchdowns but also threw two interceptions in the defeat. He threw a 12-yard TD to tight end Garrett Graham with 1:31 to play but Illinois recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock.

Penn State (4-2, 1-2) had lost back-to-back games at Michigan and Illinois to begin conference play before returning home and downing Iowa last week, 27-7.

Filling in for suspended tailback Austin Scott, Rodney Kinlaw ran for a personal-best 168 yards and two TDs for the Nittany Lions, who outgained the Hawkeyes, 489-194.

Wisconsin posted a 13-3 home win over Penn State last year. In 2005, however, the Nittany Lions crushed the Badgers here, 35-14.