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Wisconsin returns to the New Year’s Six in a recent 2021 bowl projection

Despite an up-and-down 2020 campaign that saw the Wisconsin Badgers show promise at times but also struggle mightily at others, FOXSports

Despite an up-and-down 2020 campaign that saw the Wisconsin Badgers show promise at times but also struggle mightily at others, FOXSports college football analyst R.J. Young included them in the New Year’s Six in his latest 2021 bowl projection.

The projected destination? The Rose Bowl against the Utah Utes.

A trip to the “granddaddy of them all” next season would be the program’s seventh since 1998, fifth since 2010 and would give Paul Chryst and company a shot at avenging their 2019 defeat to the Oregon Ducks.

Related: 2021 Wisconsin Football Preview: Early breakout players, true freshmen to watch

The season is months away and a lot will change between now and then, but the early-offseason hype is there for the Badgers as quarterback Graham Mertz enters his second season as the starter.

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Wisconsin in the Citrus Bowl in the latest college football bowl projection

Brad Crawford of 247Sports recently released the July edition of his college football bowl projections and had the Badgers facing off…

Brad Crawford of 247Sports recently released the July edition of his college football bowl projections and had the Badgers facing off against the Texas A&M Aggies in the Citrus Bowl.

This after College Football News placed the Badgers in the same bowl but against the defending champion LSU Tigers in their bowl projection a few months ago.

After this week’s news of the Big Ten and others moving to a conference-only schedule, much is unknown about what the bowl season will look like and what will change about the 6-win mark needed to qualify for a bowl.

Nevertheless, these projections are what make the offseason fun and here’s what Crawford had to say about the projected Badger–Aggie matchup:

A major change from previous bowl picks this spring, earlier this year we had LSU in this slot, but we’re changing things up a bit. Assuming this projection is accurate, that would mean Texas A&M falters vs. Auburn, Alabama and LSU this season for three losses. Jimbo Fisher expects this to be his best team thus far in College Station with a senior quarterback and depth up front, but we’re not ready to label the Aggies a final four contender just yet. As for Wisconsin, the Badgers don’t have to deal with Notre Dame any longer after the Big Ten went to the conference-only plan.

If one thing is clear with these projections it’s that there is a sentiment across the college football landscape that the Badgers are in line for good things this season–especially without Notre Dame and Appalachian State on the schedule–and are a great pick to land in a New Year’s Six bowl for the fourth time in five years.