WATCH: Joel Klatt gives high praise to the Badger football program

With Paul Finebaum being commonly known as the media face of the SEC, there has begun to be a similar sentiment shared about…

With Paul Finebaum being commonly known as the media face of the SEC, there has begun to be a similar sentiment shared about FOX Sports’ Joel Klatt and his coverage of the Big Ten.

On Wednesday Klatt was on The Herd with Colin Cowherd and they played a game where one would name a football program and the other would say what their expected win total during a full season should be.

Klatt’s answer for Wisconsin? 10.5 wins.

Here is his reasoning:

His one quote perfectly sums up the Badger football program and the reason it has had so much success since the late 1990s.

“If you’re asking me about which team, fanbase, administration knows themselves better than anybody else in the country, it’s Wisconsin,” Klatt said. “They know who they are, how they have success, why they have success, and that’s why they do have success year, over year, over year.”

If we’re being honest here, he’s completely right.

There is not one program in the country that has a better understanding of who they are and what they need to do well. Then you add in an intelligent fanbase, talented players and stellar coaching and it’s clear why Wisconsin has been such a consistently good football team for now more than 20 years.

And to Cowherd’s initial reaction: Yes, they should be looked at higher than USC.