re: why does wisconsin have an entire endzone empty?

It's the 11 am start, and the way they seat the students. They fill them in as they get there from the bottom up. The older alums, like me, will consistently lament the shitty student attendance at kickoff. But, it supposedly does take longer to get in now for some reason, and when I went we had assigned seats so the empties weren't so obvious, but I do think we filled it a hell of a lot more for kickoff, and were still able to get sufficiently fricked up before.

11 AM starts are brutal in general though.