We are now six weeks into the Big Ten’s 2020 football season and the No. 18 Wisconsin Badgers sit at 2-1 after seeing three of their six games canceled due to COVID-19 protocols.
A lot has gone well for the team this year, including redshirt freshman Graham Mertz bursting onto the scene, true freshmen Jalen Berger and Nick Herbig having an instant impact and a blow out win against Michigan.
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Much has also gone wrong, though, with the program experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak and having to cancel two games, losing 17-7 to Northwestern and the battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe being canceled due to COVID-19 cases in the Minnesota football program.
Before the season, site editor Asher Low and I put together nine bold predictions for the team’s 2020 season.
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Here is a past-mid-season update on how the predictions are shaking out: