wisconsin badgers leading rushers in 1980s

From 1980 through 1989, Larry Emery rushed for the most yards for Wisconsin by a running back, with 2,979 yards.

	NAME	RUSH YDS	GP	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Larry Emery L. Emery	2,979	45	582	5.1	66.2	19	302	45	6.7	6.7	0
2	Marvin Artley M. Artley	1,667	33	320	5.2	50.5	12	55	6	9.2	1.7	0
3	John Williams J. Williams	1,447	33	312	4.6	43.8	7	103	13	7.9	3.1	1
4	Troy King T. King	1,302	33	226	5.8	39.5	9	171	20	8.6	5.2	0
5	Chucky Davis C. Davis	808	22	149	5.4	36.7	4	250	32	7.8	11.4	0
6	Steve Vinci S. Vinci	796	45	161	4.9	17.7	2	158	14	11.3	3.5	1
7	Gary Ellerson G. Ellerson	777	11	161	4.8	70.6	11	56	13	4.3	5.1	0
8	Leon Hunt L. Hunt	585	45	136	4.3	13.0	6	41	6	6.8	0.9	0
9	Jimmy Henderson J. Henderson	426	11	102	4.2	38.7	0	24	4	6.0	2.2	0
10	Fred Owens F. Owens	321	56	94	3.4	5.7	3	123	13	9.5	2.2	0
11	Damone Freeman D. Freeman	299	22	76	3.9	13.6	0	3	3	1.0	0.1	0
12	Louis Curtis L. Curtis	239	11	45	5.3	21.7	1	15	1	15.0	1.4	0
13	Tywin Claypool T. Claypool	82	22	31	2.6	3.7	0	4	1	4.0	0.2	0
14	Curtis Richardson C. Richardson	82	22	21	3.9	3.7	1	1	1	1.0	0.0	0
15	Marck Harrison M. Harrison	78	22	17	4.6	3.5	0
16	Thad McFadden T. McFadden	76	11	5	15.2	6.9	0	134	10	13.4	12.2	0
17	Brian Bonner B. Bonner	65	11	20	3.3	5.9	1
18	Robert Taylor R. Taylor	35	11	7	5.0	3.2	0	7	1	7.0	0.6	0
19	Eric Ford E. Ford	16	11	8	2.0	1.5	0
20	Louis Holland L. Holland	15	33	9	1.7	0.5	0
21	Kemal Carr K. Carr	7	11	1	7.0	0.6	0
22	Keith Browning K. Browning	6	22	2	3.0	0.3	0
23	Dave Tansor D. Tansor	5	11	2	2.5	0.5	0
24	Tony Spaeth T. Spaeth	2	11	1	2.0	0.2	0	152	14	10.9	13.8	1

StatMuse has season-level data for rushing yards going back to the 1956 season.

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More Wisconsin Stats

Team Leaders

PASS

1,198

Joseph

RUSH

333

Joseph

REC

343

Henry

Team Rankings

PPG

27.5

83rd

OPP PPG

16.7

27th

RUSH YDS/G

152.2

89th

PASS YDS/G

199.7

118th

2026 Big 10 Standings

	TEAM	CONF	OVERALL
7	Minnesota	2-1	4-2
8	Oregon	2-1	4-2
9	Wisconsin	2-1	4-2
10	Nebraska	2-2	5-2
11	Purdue	2-2	3-4

Schedule

DATE	MATCHUP			TIME (ET)
Sat 10/24	USC	@	WIS	7:30 PM
Sat 10/31	WIS	@	IOWA	1:00 PM
Sat 11/7	RUTG	@	WIS	1:00 PM
Sat 11/14	WIS	@	MD	1:00 PM
Sat 11/21	WIS	@	PUR	1:00 PM

Last Game

Wisconsin

4 - 2

Final

UCLA

6 - 0

Sat 17 Oct 2026

CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

2,604

Atkinson

2,045

Maiava

2,007

Sayin

Rush Yards Leaders

867

Roberts

838

Burgess

837

Bishop

Rec Yards Leaders

1,040

Legree

984

Smith

784

Hatcher

Pass TD Leaders

24

Atkinson

20

Weigman

19

Sayin

Rush TD Leaders

14

Hawkins

13

Baugh

13

Hellums

Rec TD Leaders

14

Legree

12

Smith

9

Duff

QB Rating Leaders

203.9

Mensah

185.9

Stockton

184.5

Sayin

Sack Leaders

10.5

Simmons

8.0

Umanmielen

7.5

Stevens

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

48.5

43.0

42.9

42.7

42.2

41.1

Opp PPG Rankings

10.5

11.3

12.2

12.9

13.4

Total Yards Rankings

562.3

559.5

533.8

527.0

517.7

512.6

Rush Yards Rankings

357.5

343.0

303.5

298.5

272.4

239.8

Pass Yards Rankings

384.9

347.0

333.0

329.5

325.2

323.1

Sack Leaders

29.0

27.0

25.0

24.0

22.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	BYU	6	0	1.000
2	Texas Tech	6	0	1.000
3	Utah	6	0	1.000
4	Houston	6	1	.857
5	Arizona	5	1	.833
6	Baylor	4	2	.667
7	Oklahoma State	4	2	.667
8	Cincinnati	4	2	.667
9	UCF	3	3	.500
10	Kansas State	4	2	.667
11	Arizona State	3	3	.500
12	Iowa State	3	3	.500
13	TCU	3	3	.500
14	West Virginia	4	3	.571
15	Colorado	2	4	.333
16	Kansas	2	4	.333

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	6	0	1.000
2	Ohio State	6	1	.857
3	Indiana	6	1	.857
4	USC	6	1	.857
5	Iowa	5	1	.833
6	Northwestern	5	1	.833
7	Minnesota	4	2	.667
8	Oregon	4	2	.667
9	Wisconsin	4	2	.667
10	Nebraska	5	2	.714
11	Purdue	3	4	.429
12	Michigan	4	2	.667
13	Illinois	3	3	.500
14	Rutgers	2	4	.333
15	Washington	4	3	.571
16	Penn State	3	4	.429
17	Maryland	2	5	.286
18	Michigan State	2	5	.286

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Georgia	6	1	.857
2	Kentucky	6	1	.857
3	Tennessee	6	1	.857
4	Ole Miss	5	1	.833
5	Alabama	5	2	.714
6	Florida	5	2	.714
7	LSU	5	2	.714
8	Mississippi State	4	2	.667
9	Missouri	5	2	.714
10	Auburn	4	2	.667
11	Oklahoma	3	3	.500
12	Texas	4	2	.667
13	Texas A&M	4	3	.571
14	South Carolina	3	3	.500
15	Arkansas	3	4	.429
16	Vanderbilt	3	4	.429

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	6	0	1.000
2	Wake Forest	6	1	.857
3	SMU	5	1	.833
4	Clemson	4	2	.667
5	North Carolina	4	2	.667
6	Louisville	4	3	.571
7	Pittsburgh	5	2	.714
8	California	3	4	.429
9	Virginia Tech	5	2	.714
10	Virginia	4	3	.571
11	Georgia Tech	2	4	.333
12	Duke	4	2	.667
13	Boston College	3	3	.500
14	NC State	3	3	.500
15	Florida State	3	4	.429
16	Stanford	3	4	.429
17	Syracuse	2	4	.333

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	New Mexico	5	1	.833
2	North Dakota State	6	1	.857
3	Air Force	5	1	.833
4	Wyoming	4	3	.571
5	San Jose State	4	3	.571
6	UNLV	4	3	.571
7	Nevada	2	4	.333
8	Northern Illinois	0	6	.000
9	UTEP	1	6	.143
10	Hawai'i	1	6	.143

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	6	1	.857
2	UConn	3	3	.500

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	Ohio	5	2	.714
2	Western Michigan	5	2	.714
3	Eastern Michigan	4	4	.500
4	Buffalo	4	3	.571
5	Bowling Green	2	5	.286
6	Toledo	5	2	.714
7	Miami (OH)	4	3	.571
8	Kent State	2	5	.286
9	Central Michigan	3	4	.429
10	Ball State	2	5	.286
11	UMass	4	3	.571
12	Akron	1	6	.143
13	Sacramento State	1	6	.143

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Oregon State	5	2	.714
2	Boise State	5	1	.833
3	San Diego State	3	4	.429
4	Texas State	3	3	.500
5	Utah State	2	4	.333
6	Fresno State	4	3	.571
7	Colorado State	2	4	.333
8	Washington State	1	6	.143

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	UTSA	6	1	.857
2	North Texas	4	2	.667
3	Army	4	2	.667
4	Memphis	5	2	.714
5	UAB	4	3	.571
6	Florida Atlantic	4	2	.667
7	East Carolina	3	3	.500
8	Tulane	3	3	.500
9	Charlotte	1	6	.143
10	Temple	2	5	.286
11	South Florida	5	2	.714
12	Tulsa	4	3	.571
13	Navy	2	4	.333
14	Rice	1	6	.143

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Jacksonville State	5	2	.714
2	Liberty	5	1	.833
3	Western Kentucky	3	4	.429
4	Florida International	3	3	.500
5	Middle Tennessee	3	3	.500
6	Missouri State	2	4	.333
7	New Mexico State	2	4	.333
8	Delaware	2	4	.333
9	Kennesaw State	1	5	.167
10	Sam Houston	1	5	.167

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	James Madison	7	0	1.000
2	Louisiana Tech	4	2	.667
3	South Alabama	4	2	.667
4	Georgia Southern	3	4	.429
5	Louisiana	5	2	.714
6	Appalachian State	4	2	.667
7	Georgia State	4	2	.667
8	Troy	3	3	.500
9	Coastal Carolina	2	5	.286
10	Arkansas State	3	4	.429
11	Old Dominion	2	5	.286
12	Southern Miss	1	5	.167
13	Louisiana-Monroe	0	6	.000
14	Marshall	3	3	.500