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 Two helmets making contact should not be targeting. Touching a long snapper should not be a personal foul. There’s safety and there’s pushing us to flag football.

Seems a lot of normal contact that's unavoidable is being flagged with absolutely no malicious intent

I think it's about position. To long snap, you're looking between your legs, head down. If someone jumps on you, they'll basically bend you in half or launch right through you.
I get why it's a call and it probably should be. (I mostly don't mind the punter rules either TBH)

Well in a sense the snapper is defenseless sort of blindsiding from a different angle

Also, this has to be said too. Paul Chryst and Joe Rudolph had a really bad day with play calls and decisions. The running game was working and they got away from it too soon in my opinion. Of course, there were times when the game called for passing plays (after it went to 21-7) but before that? Taylor only had 17 carries and Deal had only 1. That's not Wisconsin football.

This is interesting. Pass/run stuff is usually a combination of style/situation. UW tends to be hype-run heavy on running downs, pass heavy on passing downs. So here's the down/distance for every pass before 21-7.
3rd and 5
1st and 10 (A nice play-action rollout for 12 yards)
2nd and 9
1st and 10 (Play action that gets open but Alex has to move and misses, helps end drive)
3rd and 3 (Set up by a mishandled 2nd and 1 snap)
1st and 10 with 4 minutes left (Big play action where Alex seems to want too much)
2nd and 7 (With 2:30 left in the half)
3rd and 12
At halftime, USC has 17 rushes to seven passes, though it was really more like 15 to 8 with that messed up snap.
So looking at those eight passes, you have three pure passing situations, two in a sort of gray area (2nd and 7 after a run with 2:30 left and the third and 3 where PC can be dicy on running) and three 1st down, pass off the run situations. 

All of it was sort of logical, with some room for debate on the last three. One issue is UW only getting 24 first-half plays and then being down 14 the rest of the way. 

Wow. Marshall is much improved this year, but I never expect plays like that against even mediocre competition. That's close to the snap of his year. He's the bottom lineman in the rotation. Like you said, hard to tell the effect it had. I have noticed, though, that Hornibrook gets nervous when things close in. That's the only kind of effect it could have had here - psychological.

It looks to me like Hornibrook has to lean a hint with those two in his space. If they get a better angle, perhaps we'll know for sure. 

I was a little surprised we didn't see another QB for UW last night. Why not get someone else a few snaps in a meaningless 4th quarter? After the pick 6 even. It was over before then.

Wisconsin’s OL and RB are very NFL good.  I thought they might take over early in the game. Michigan DE Winovich thought he was being held and complained frequently and emphatically to the ref but it was never called.  

Wisconsin had a lot of dropped balls so if your gonna crucify Hornibrook you should probably give him some company.  

Michigan chewing clock late in the 3rd and on reminded me of Badger ball.  Playing “Jump Around” on the stadium noise machine late in the 4th was hilarious.

Wisconsin is still in driver’s seat in West.  Best chance for Badgers to pick up another loss are road games at PSU and NW who always seem to give the Badgers a hard time.  Iowa has those two plus Maryland.  

Dixon didn't play?