The 2023 college football season is here! Well, kind of. Big Ten media days begin tomorrow and the media’s preseason predictions are flowing in.
In unsurprising news, Wisconsin was selected as the Big Ten West favorite for the fourth consecutive year despite the program not winning the division in any of the previous three seasons.
What is surprising: One writer picked the Badgers to finish sixth in the division. Yes, one spot ahead of Northwestern (the likely worst team in the group) and behind everybody else.
It wouldn’t come as a big surprise if last year’s fifth-place finish was met with stagnation and a lack of improvement. That obviously was not the case. Luke Fickell seemingly has this program headed in the right direction.
One media member picked Wisconsin to finish 6th in the B1G West this year. Gonna need that person’s name. pic.twitter.com/X30IsayGYU
— Zach Heilprin (@ZachHeilprin) July 25, 2023
I will do all the digging I can as Big Ten media days commence to find out which writer is picking a Nebraska-like collapse from the Badgers.