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I am attempting to do the impossible: predict the entire 1st round of the 2025 NFL draft. Will I get most of these wrong? Absolutely. Let’s give it a shot...
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We’re keeping it simple today. Just seeds and no analysis. We’ll have a breakdown of the actual bracket tomorrow...
The regular season is over! Congratulations to Michigan State on winning the Big Ten regular season title. Now, let's move on to the postseason and see where...
It turns out that Auburn is mortal, after all. Losing twice in one week only drops them to number two overall, and Duke benefits from the...
Who doesn’t love Cinderella stories? No Cinderella has actually won the NCAA basketball tournament, but damn is it fun to watch them win in the first round...
Finally! A shake-up in the top four seeds. The field is starting to get finalized, so expect little movement from here on out...
Down With Big Red. Down a Few Good Men for The Ax. Just One More Win.
Last Saturday was incredible. Nebraska has still never possessed the Freedom Trophy in the Wisco-Nebraska series. Now it’s time to put a 2nd trophy in the case this week. Win the ax, and some interesting...
There are 41 total Bowl Games with 82 spots available. Yes, certain conferences have tie-ins to certain bowls, But 82 is the number that matters. Teams can play in bowls not associated with their conference to make everything work. They just need 82 teams that have 6+ wins.
If all...
SEC West Cupcake Week, My Picks For This Week, It’s Almost Over
You want game picks? Well, I’ve got game picks. I’ve got more picks than I’ve done for any week all season. I also have a short rant about some certain teams scheduling practices that I need to get off...
Usually, a coach gets fired mid-season after an embarrassing loss or a train wreck string of ineptitude and obvious regression. But something strange happened last Saturday.
2 SEC teams played; the score was 51-10, and both coaches were fired following the game.
Put another way:
Texas A&M beat Mississippi State 51-10...
Is The Bowl Streak in Jeopardy? What About Nebraska Feels So Familiar?
There has to be 1 goal at this point: save the bowl streak. That means getting 1 more win in the last 2 games. I think Bucky can do it, but I also thought he would handle Indiana...
We don’t say #BuckyByAMillion for nothing around here. No matter how bad it gets, if there’s a sliver of hope we’ll find it and cling to it.
Wisconsin can still win the Big Ten West
#NotDeadYet
Well, actually no one is dead yet. (Except Purdue sorry spoilermakers, boiler down). Yes, that means Minnesota...
Just Picks, no more, no less
I didn’t have the time or energy to do a preview piece this week. That’s on me. But, I do still want to put out game picks for the week to be consistent on that front. This is a super short article that is really...
Was That The Real Badgers? Am I Actually Scared of Northwestern?
So I guess the Badgers are actually bad. How can a team that hung with Ohio State till the 4th quarter get beat by the worst team in the Big Ten.
The short answer: Injuries and Coaching.
The coaching part...
The Last Bedlam, SEC division races, Pac-12 Quarterback Showdown.
This is the Big 12’s week to shine. The top 6 teams in the conference all play each other, and 5 of the 6 only have 1 conference loss so far. Who is going to the Big 12 title game is likely...
Mistakes and Bad Luck Against OSU. Some Michigan Thoughts. I Pity Wisconsin’s next Opponent.
This is a weird Wisco Wednesday piece if I’m being honest. The meat is in the middle where I look at what’s going on around the rest of the B1G. I don’t have as many thoughts...
A Pac-12 Elimination Game, A Possible Upset in the Big 12, and An ACC Matchup with Title Implications.
It’s not the greatest college football weekend if we're being honest here. I’ll be watching games, but there is no national needle mover like OSU-PSU or Bama-Texas. In a normal year that game...
A Resilient Road Comeback. An OG Braelon Performance. Madison’s Super Bowl Saturday.
It feels better to be a Badger fan right now than it has in a long long time. Going into the 2021 season felt kinda like this, but Wisco was 1-3 by week 4. 2019 felt like this...
My ballot for the AP Top 25 - If they let me have one
I have some short explanations for my picks in groups of 5 from 1 to 25. Then, at the bottom, I have the top 40 all in one list with the AP rankings in parentheses. As usual...
The 1st B1G game, The 3rd Saturday in Oct., and what’s good in the other Conferences.
Week 8 of College football is here. We are well past the halfway point and getting into the meat of conference schedules. With conference play dominating the schedule in week 8, I decided that is...
Mordecai went down. The defense gave up only 13, but the offense couldn’t score. Wisconsin is way behind schedule in Fickell’s year 1.
Fickell’s first season as HC had 1 very clear and attainable goal. Win the division in the last year of its existence, and build on that success...