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Wisconsin football 2024 schedule considered to be among toughest in Big Ten

Wisconsin football schedule considered be in top-5 toughest in Big Ten

The Wisconsin Badgers will begin their 2024 season on Friday, Aug. 30 at home against Western Michigan, beginning what is considered to be one of the toughest schedules in the Big Ten.

Tom Fornelli of CBS Sports ranked all of the schedules in the Big Ten this season. He listed Wisconsin’s 2024 slate as the fourth-toughest of the 18 teams in the conference this year.

Only UCLA, Purdue and USC were picked to have a harder path in 2024 — two of which are newcomers to the conference this season.

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The Badgers will face contenders including Alabama (home), USC (road), Penn State (home) and Oregon (home), as well as other typical Big Ten opponents like Iowa (road) and Nebraska (road) this year.

Luke Fickell and his staff are entering year two in Madison, looking to build off of a 2023 campaign where they finished 7-6, losing to LSU 35-31 in the ReliaQuest Bowl.

The Badgers will begin their training camp at UW-Platteville on Tuesday, ramping up their activity with one month to go before the regular season opener.

Wisconsin currently a massive underdog against LSU

The Badgers are set to take on LSU

The Wisconsin Badgers are coming into the ReliaQuest Bowl as massive underdogs according to the odds across the board. According to a number of sportsbooks, the Badgers are ten-point underdogs against LSU in Florida on New Year’s Day.

LSU’s offense has been the story, naturally, as they have the Heisman winner in Jayden Daniels. Daniels, however, will be sitting out the bowl game in preparation for the next stage of his football career. Garrett Nussmeier will instead be a double-digit favorite in his first career start for LSU.

LSU also has a pair of new play callers in the bowl game. Unlike LSU, Wisconsin will have their starting quarterback available and playing in Tanner Mordecai.

The matchup is set for ESPN2 on New Year’s Day.

 

WATCH: The final wired of the season as Jake Chaney is on the mic

Jake Chaney is mic’d up during practice

Wisconsin football has entertained us all year as they mic up different players in practice, and less than a week out from the 2024 ReliaQuest Bowl, the Badgers decided to mic up Jake Chaney.

Chaney is playing close to home as the bowl game is in his home state of Florida. The Badger linebacker has 48 solo tackles on the season and a trio of sacks. He has 73 total tackles on the year in a season where his role has expanded.

Wisconsin football’s Twitter account has been giving us an inside look at practice all season long. Here is a look at likely the final wired of Wisconsin football’s 2023 season, featuring Jake Chaney:

Wisconsin adds a big time ‘crystal ball’ for 2025 CB

The Badgers add a big crystal ball prediction in 2025

Wisconsin is off to a fast start in their 2025 recruiting cycle as Luke Fickell looks to build the future of Badger football.

247Sports has their “crystal ball” feature in their recruiting rankings where writers and insiders can predict where players will end up, and the Badgers were just linked to a big-time 2025 cornerback.

247Sports Badgers insider Evan Flood just sent out a crystal ball prediction that 2025 cornerback Tariq Hayer would land with Wisconsin. Hayer is a four-star prospect who is the No. 2 player in Washington DC for the class of 2025. He holds offers from the likes of Penn State, Boston College, and Maryland among others.

A Wisconsin defensive lineman is on the move in the transfer portal

A Wisconsin DL is on the move

Wisconsin defensive lineman Rodas Johnson is officially in the transfer portal. The Badger senior was a mainstay for the Badgers over the past four seasons, as he played in 38 games and finished his Wisconsin career with 50 total tackles, including ten tackles for loss.

Johnson was an important piece of the 2023 Badgers, as he had 19 tackles and a trio of them were for a loss. We are now up to eight Badgers who have entered the portal as quarterback Myles Burkett, offensive lineman Dylan Barrett and Trey Wedig, wide receivers Chimere Dike and Skyler Bell, and linebackers Jordan Mayer and Jordan Turner have all put their name in the ring.

Johnson made sure to correct the NCAA Transfer Portal account for Rivals so who had him listed as a linebacker, because he indeed will be transferring to play defensive line.

WATCH: Relive Wisconsin bringing the Axe back to where it belongs

Relive the Badgers bringing The Axe home

Wisconsin brought Paul Bunyan’s Axe home this past weekend as they used a dominant second half to take down Minnesota 28-14.

In his final Battle for the Axe as a Badger, Braelon Allen starred on his way to 165 yards on the ground and a pair of touchdowns. Allen’s third-quarter four-yard touchdown scamper gave the Badgers a lead they would never give up.

Wisconsin’s fantastic video team put together a video to help us relive the rivalry win that saw The Axe end up back where it belongs. Watch Wisconsin sink the boat and come out of Minnesota with a crucial win to end the season on a high note:

A pair of Wisconsin Badgers earn All-Big Ten defense honors

A pair of Wisconsin Badgers earn All-Big Ten defense honors

The Big Ten announced this season’s All-Big Ten Defense teams on Tuesday, and a pair of Wisconsin Badgers made the cut.

Ricardo Hallman, who had a breakout season in the Wisconsin secondary, earned All-Big Ten Third Team honors. Hallman finished the year with six interceptions and five passes defended, and was a leader on the Badger defense throughout the 2023 campaign.

Hunter Wohler earned the highest honor of any Badger defender, as he was named to the Big Ten Second Team. Wohler had a pair of interceptions on the year and 73 solo tackles as he was arguably the hardest hitter on the 2023 Badgers.

Wisconsin season ticket prices are going up for the first time in six years

Badger ticket prices are on the rise next season

Wisconsin football season ticket prices, along with what feels like everything else in the world, are going up in price. For the first time since 2018, Badger football tickets will see an increase.

Last week, the Wisconsin Athletic Board voted to approve a raise of $21 to the price which brings season tickets for 2024 to starting at $399. Certain tickets also come with a mandatory donation to the athletic department along with your season ticket purchase.

Students will also feel the increase, as a student football season ticket will go up to $199, a ten dollar increase from the previous year.

Wisconsin fans get seven games that feature quality opponents including Alabama and Oregon at Camp Randall in 2024.

Wisconsin 2024 schedule features major opponents, season tickets are on sale

2024 Wisconsin football season tickets are now on sale

Last week, the Badgers announced season tickets were now on sale for the 2024 football season.

Wisconsin welcomes new Big Ten squads to their schedule, as well as one of the nation’s best programs. The road games don’t make things any easier, but how about the home slate? Wisconsin gets Alabama and Oregon as two of their home opponents in 2024.

The road tests? Mix in a game at USC and at Michigan and you can begin to see just how tough the Big Ten gauntlet has become with the new Pac-12 additions.

Wisconsin season tickets are officially on sale in 2024. Here is the link to get in on the action.

 

Five takeaways from Wisconsin’s 35-14 win over Georgia Southern

The Badgers overcome a tough first half at home

It was a tale of two halves, as all three games of the year have been so far, for Wisconsin football in their 35-14 win over Georgia Southern (2-1). The Badgers (2-1) started slow and it despite three first-half interceptions thrown by Georgia Southern quarterback Davis Brin, the teams went into the locker room tied at 7.

It wasn’t until Wisconsin fell down 14-7 early in the second half that the Badger offense woke up with a five-play, 58-yard drive spurred by Braelon Allen early in the third quarter.

From there, it was the Wisconsin defense forcing another trio of turnovers that sealed what ended up being a comfortable win. It certainly wasn’t a full, four-quarter performance that will ease Badger fans after a loss to Washington State. Here are ten takeaways from the win: