Fun Facts: Iowa-Wisconsin, the Barbie edition

Fun Facts about Saturday’s Iowa football game against Wisconsin.

1. The last three games in this series were decided by 14 or more points.

2. Iowa beat Wisconsin 24-10 last year despite gaining just 146 yards.

3. Home teams have won the last four games in the series, and the Badgers have won the last three times these teams met in Madison.

4. Iowa has allowed 14 or fewer points in 12 of its last 19 games.

5. The Hawkeyes have started their possessions in their opponents’ territory 19.4 percent of the time, which ranks 10th-best in the nation and second in the Big Ten to national-leader Penn State.

6. The Badgers are 41-12 against Big Ten West teams since the conference moved to an East/West format in 2014. Iowa is 37-18. No one else in the division is better than 29-25.

7. The 5-1 Hawkeyes have completed 45.9 percent of their passes, which ranks last in the nation. Entering this weekend, 84 teams had completed 60 percent or more. Iowa has completed 37.7 percent in Big Ten games.

8. Wisconsin has won as many bowl games since 2014 as any team in the nation (excluding the College Football Playoff championship game) with eight.

9. Iowa is second nationally to Michigan in fewest penalty yards per game.

10. Wisconsin employs an Air Raid offense. Ten of its last 11 offensive touchdowns came via rushing.

11. Iowa is averaging 21:45 of possession time over its last three games.

12. Hawkeye linebackers Jay Higgins and Nick Jackson have a combined 127 tackles, the most by a pair of teammates in a Power 5 conference.

13. Wisconsin junior Braelon Allen has 18 career 100-yard rushing performances, more than any other current player in a Power 5 conference. Allen is from Fond du Lac, Wis. “Fond du Lac” is French and means “bottom of the lake.”

14. Iowa and Wisconsin both have an Iowa County. The county seats are Marengo and Dodgeville.

15. “Jump Around,” the song they play at Camp Randall Stadium between the third and fourth quarters that gets every student in the stadium jumping, was a hit for House of Pain. That hip hop trio was described by Spin.com as “a roving white-boy mob of unrepentant L.A.-based knuckleheads.”

16. NBC Sports announced this week that former Iowa quarterback Paul Burmeister will be among the play-by-play announcers calling Big Ten basketball games this season on Peacock. Burmeister also is the radio voice of Notre Dame football.

17. Wisconsin’s state symbol, the badger, doesn’t refer to the animal but instead to 1820s lead miners who dug tunnels to sleep in and keep warm, like badgers.

18. Willows, Wis., is the fictional town hometown of Barbie.

19. Wisconsin produces 59 percent of the nation’s cranberries to just 25 percent of the nation’s cheese.

20. The Cranberries have sold over 40 million albums.