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LINCOLN — Russell Wilson looked to the sideline, hands on his hips, awaiting the play call late in the fourth quarter when Camp Randall Stadium burst into song.

“Why do you build me up (build me up), Buttercup baby

Just to let me down (let me down), and mess me around”

The ditty washed over Nebraska tackle Terrence Moore and the Husker defense, who faced away from the howling student section. No. 8 Nebraska trailed 41-17. No. 7 Wisconsin was in the red zone, about to bury its newest conference foe deeper into the ground. There was nothing Moore or the rest of the Blackshirts could do that night to stop the Badgers, or the student section, which sang the chorus of the 1968 hit by The Foundations and poured salt into the gashing wound of Husker pride.

“I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin’

You know that I have from the start

So build me up (build me up), Buttercup, don’t break my heart”