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Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon Fastest To 2,000 Yards, Ties Big Ten Record

By Phil Watson

Nov 22, 2014; Iowa City, IA, USA; Wisconsin Badgers running back Melvin Gordon (25) flips the football to the official after scoring against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 22, 2014; Iowa City, IA, USA; Wisconsin Badgers running back Melvin Gordon (25) flips the football to the official after scoring against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reese Strickland-USA TODAY Sports /
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The records keep piling up for Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon. On Saturday, he tied Ron Dayne’s Big Ten single-season rushing record with 2,109 yards.

The video game numbers continue to pile up for Wisconsin Badgers star Melvin Gordon.

The junior running back ran for 200 yards—131 of them on 17 second-half carries—and scored two touchdowns as Wisconsin neared a Big Ten West Division title, holding off the Iowa Hawkeyes 26-24 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa.

Along the way, Gordon became the fastest in FBS history to reach 2,000 yards in a season—breaking away for an 88-yard run in the third quarter. He didn’t score on the run, the longest of his career, but it pushed him over the two-century mark on just his 242nd carry of the season.

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Gordon’s final carry, a 4-yard run up the middle as the Badgers were trying to run out the clock in the fourth quarter, got him to 200 yards in the game—his third straight 200-yard game and his fifth of the season—and gave him 2,109 yards on the season, matching the Big Ten single-season record set by former Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne in 1999.

So dude ties a conference single-season record and can’t even own his own school record.

The Badgers could have three games left this season—they host Minnesota next Saturday, with the winner advancing to the Big Ten championship game against Ohio State the following week.

Throw in the bowl game and Gordon would need 520 yards over those three games to pass Barry Sanders’ FBS record 2,628 yards set in 1988.

However, one of Gordon’s records fell Saturday. He set an FBS mark with 408 rushing yards just last week against Nebraska and the record stood all of seven days before it was broken Saturday by Oklahoma’s Samaje Perine, who torched Kansas for 427 yards.

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