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WATCH: Wisconsin releases hilarious video edit after the season was reinstated

As you probably know by now the Big Ten reinstated the 2020 football season yesterday after previously cancelling it in early August…

As you probably know by now the Big Ten reinstated the 2020 football season yesterday after previously cancelling it in early August.

During today’s social media age, with significant announcements like this one there often comes videos and meme edits to increase the hype around the team and the news.

Related: Projecting the Badgers’ depth chart for the 2020 season

Well, the Badger football Twitter account did that and more yesterday and put out one of the best edits I’ve seen to date. The caption? “You love to see it.”

The words on the screen is all anybody needed to hear: Wisconsin football is back.

A necessary disclaimer: this is not a real-time video but instead an edit of a video posted a long time ago.

Related: Five questions to ask about the 2020 Wisconsin Badgers

Nevertheless, the video is electric and captures and attitudes of Badger fans everywhere after they heard that they would indeed be able to watch their football team play in 2020.

Now October 23 can’t come quickly enough.

ESPN’s SP+ ranks the Badgers higher than their current AP Poll slot

On September 1 ESPN released their updated SP+ rankings and opted to include every FBS team, even if their fall season had been postponed….

On September 1 ESPN released their updated SP+ rankings and opted to include every FBS team, even if their fall season had been postponed.

The metric projects team success based off three main factors: each program’s returning production, recent history and recruiting. It then quantifies those factors for both offense and defense and creates an SP+ number for each team.

The metric also gives a team their chance to win each game and adds them up to create a win total, with an 80 percent win chance for a given game equaling 0.8 wins–the Badgers and fellow Big Ten schools obviously not included in that aspect of the ranking.

So, coming in at the No. 8 slot in the updated rankings are the Wisconsin Badgers–four slots higher than their No. 12 ranking in the AP Poll.

No. 8 is good for third-best for a Big Ten team with Ohio State up top at No. 1 and Penn State one spot ahead of the Badgers at No. 7.

Specifically, Paul Chryst’s team was given a “projected SP+” of 21.6–just 0.7 behind No. 7 Penn State. Divided between offense and defense now, their 35.9 offensive rating was good for No. 17 in the nation and 14.3 defensive rating good for No. 5.

It’s hard seeing metrics and polls including ESPN FPI, SP+ and the AP Poll showing preseason love to Chryst and the Badgers with the team not set to play this season. The future is no doubt looking like a bright one for the program, but by all accounts this season was shaping up to be a special one in Madison and still could be come kickoff, whenever that day comes around.