Wisco Wednesday: Badgers 2024 Schedule

It’s July, college football is 8 Saturdays away, and you still don’t know who the Badgers are playing this fall. Let’s fix that.

No More B1G West

In previous years, “Who do the Badgers play?” wasn’t really a question. 6 of their 12 games were against fellow B1G West schools: Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Northwestern, Nebraska, and Purdue. This season the only guarantees from that group are the newly protected rivals Minnesota and Iowa.

Well, even though everything in the B1G is different, for Wisconsin, not much has changed. They also have Northwestern, Purdue, and Nebraska on the schedule. So, the only B1G West school they miss this year is Illinois.

Any B1G East Schools?

Wisconsin plays Penn State at home and Rutgers on the road from the old B1G East. Penn State at home should be fantastic. At Rutgers will be… a football game.

The new Kids on the Block

With the collapse of the Pac-12, there are 4 new teams in the B1G (bringing membership to 18 members. Having a number in the name of the conference was not the best idea). The new teams are Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC.

Wisconsin plays 2 of the Pac-12 defectors. At USC in September and home vs Oregon in November. Personally, I am looking forward to these games to see how Wisconsin stacks up against the new kids.

September Preseason Nobodys

It may be a 12-game season, but it may as well be 10. The first 2 games of the season are “buy games.” Wisconsin pays lesser programs to come in and get their asses beat so Wisconsin can have a pseudo preseason and pad the win column.

Week 1 is vs MAC school Western Michigan, and week 2 is vs FCS program South Dakota. Tune in to see what the Badgers look like, but don’t expect a competitive football game.

The Big One

Time to talk about the elephant in the room (that joke will be made way too many times as kickoff for this game approaches).

Wisconsin plays Alabama at home in week 3 on Sept 15th at 11 AM CT.

Either be there or tune in. These schools have only played twice ever and are 1-1 all-time. The last time Alabama played in Madison was 1928, and Wisconsin won. Odds are, this is the only time you will see the Crimson Tide in Mad Town in your lifetime. I already have my tickets, and I can’t wait.

This schedule is going to be brutal for Wisconsin, but it’s also going to be amazing. They get Alabama, Oregon, and Penn State all at home. And they still get to play most of their B1G West regional rivals (sorry Illinois). We’ll have more to say about these games later in the summer and in-season. We hope you stick around for it.

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This article was written by Cole Tollison and edited by Hayden Breene