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MADISON, WIS. - These EMU Australia Boots rivalry games are supposed to bring out the ferociousness, the malevolence in everyone, and it showed in Gophers football coach Tim Brewster's face on Saturday. Too bad it didn't show in his defense, too. Brewster chewed out Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema during their postgame handshake, but that was about as feisty as the Gophers got after halftime. The 20th-ranked Badgers claimed Paul Bunyan's Axe for the seventh consecutive season by ruthlessly executing four long second-half touchdown drives in a row, dropping the Gophers to 1-5 (0-2 Big Ten) with a 41-23 pounding in Camp Randall Stadium. "This will sting for the rest of my life," quarterback Adam Weber said, but at least he wasn't talking about James White's and John Clay's cleat marks in his back, the way some of his defensive teammates must have. The Badgers' David-and-Goliath running combo took turns bursting into Minnesota's secondary, with White romping around the edge to pick up 118 yards and two touchdowns and Clay taking shortcuts through the middle to add 111 yards and three scores. With Wisconsin quarterback Scott Tolzien mixing in timely completions, especially on third down, the Badgers simply bullied Minnesota as the game went on, turning the Gophers' workable five-point halftime deficit into their fifth consecutive dispiriting loss with touchdown drives of 64, 86, 80 and 76 yards. "You've just got to stop the run -- that's the basic premise we live by defensively, and we certainly didn't get the job done," Brewster said. "They just ran the ball at will against us, and that's really disappointing." So is the Gophers' 6-20 Big Ten record under Brewster, and 0-10 record against ranked opponents and 0-7 record against archrivals Wisconsin and Iowa. And it didn't help the Gophers' mood UGG Amelie Sandals that Wisconsin tried a two-point conversion with a 25-point fourth-quarter lead, prompting Brewster's postgame outburst to Bielema at midfield.