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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Ron Dayne added another record to his rapidly
growing list. It came in a losing cause, however.
Robert Cooper ran for 143 yards and a touchdown, and Deontey
Kenner scored on a 5-yard run Saturday as Cincinnati upset No. 9
Wisconsin 17-12.
Dayne rushed for 231 yards on 28 carries to pass Archie Griffin
and become the Big Ten's career rushing leader with 5,615 yards,
including bowl games.
|  | | Wisconsin's Nick Davis is tackled by Cincinnati defender Tinker Keck after catching a pass. |
Dayne also moved into sixth place on the NCAA career rushing
list, which does not include bowl games. He has 5,087
regular-season yards, 1,193 shy of breaking Ricky Williams' NCAA
career mark.
"I don't care about the numbers. I'm looking for the win.
That's all I was going for," Dayne said.
It was an emotional week for Cooper, who missed last week's loss
to Division I-AA Troy State to attend an aunt's funeral.
"I just knew I had to stay positive and upbeat and focus on the
game," he said.
"We really missed him last week," Kenner said. "His
leadership on and off the field really helped today."
Kenner's TD run gave Cincinnati (2-1) a 14-6 lead with 9:59 left
in the third quarter. Wisconsin (2-1) closed to 14-12 on Dayne's
18-yard touchdown run with 5:15 remaining in the third, but a
two-point conversion attempt failed and the Badgers self-destructed
in the fourth quarter.
Dayne fumbled into the Cincinnati end zone midway through the
final period and the Bearcats recovered. Dayne fumbled after being
hit by linebacker Bobby Fuller.
"I was just reaching for some extra yards and he stripped me,"
Dayne said.
Later in the period, Wisconsin's Nick Davis fumbled a punt and
Carlton Sykes recovered for Cincinnati at the Wisconsin 25, setting
up a 41-yard field goal by Jonathan Ruffin that put the Bearcats
ahead 17-12 with 5:01 left.
"It was just a lack of concentration," Davis said. "It was
completely my fault. We just have to put this game behind us and
prepare for Michigan."
Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez said the Badgers beat themselves.
"We didn't play the type of game we usually play," Alvarez
said. "We usually play mistake-free.
"Not to take anything away from Cincinnati, but we hurt
ourselves with untimely penalties, dropped passes and that illegal
movement at the end. It's hard to win on the road when you do
things like that."
Wisconsin scored the apparent go-ahead touchdown on a
fourth-down pass in the final minute, but it was wiped out by an
illegal motion penalty. On the next play, Scott Kavanaugh overthrew
Davis in the end zone with six seconds left.
Cincinnati stunned Wisconsin on the first play of the second
quarter when Cooper scored on a 51-yard touchdown run for a 7-3
lead. It was the first time Wisconsin trailed this season.
With 5:32 left in the half, Vitaly Pisetsky kicked his second
field goal for Wisconsin to make it 7-6. Davis, the nation's
leading punt returner, had an 81-yard TD return called back in the
first half because of an illegal block.
Dayne rushed for 103 yards in the first half to move past
Temple's Paul Palmer, Rice's Trevor Cobb of Rice and South
Carolina's George Rogers on the NCAA list. His second-half yardage
moved him past Anthony Thompson of Indiana and Darren Lewis of
Texas A&M.
Dayne was held out of several series in the first half because
of a sprained ankle, and his absence was felt most on the drive
that ended with Pisetsky's second field goal.
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