A roller coaster Week 1 of the college football season is nearing completion, with a top-10 matchup between No. 5 LSU and No. 8 Florida State on Sunday night and No. 9 Clemson and Duke on Monday night.
The Big Ten schedule is complete. While most of the conference is 1-0 after the week, some out-of-conference matchups were far from a cakewalk. Then there’s Purdue, which lost to Fresno State in Ryan Walters’ debut as head coach.
ESPN’s Football Power Index continuously updates as games go final. It is a good barometer for how much Ohio State struggling with Indiana, for example, matters. And whether Nebraska’s 13-10 loss to Minnesota actually is a good sign for the rest of the season.
Related: Five takeaways from Wisconsin football’s season-opening win over Buffalo
For Wisconsin, the 38-17 win over Buffalo came with mixed reviews. The first half was nothing close to pretty, but the team pulled away in the second half thanks to huge games from both Chez Mellusi and Braelon Allen.
Now that Week 1 is complete, here are the updated game-by-game win probabilities for the Badgers for the rest of the season: