Wisconsin football has had a pair of successful decades across multiple regimes. Now, the Badgers turn towards a new coaching staff under Luke Fickell as Wisconsin looks to return to where it was just a few short years ago.
Expectations are a funny thing in college football. We have the AP Poll released before anybody has played a single game, and that creates buzz around certain teams headed into the year. Some teams live up to their hype, and others fail to reach it. Then you have situations like TCU in 2022, where a team that started the year unranked in the AP Poll goes on a Cinderella run to the College Football Playoff.
For Wisconsin, there have been years where the Badgers come from out of nowhere to rise up the polls and others where they fall short of preseason expectations.
Here is a look back at every AP Poll start and finish for Wisconsin football since 2000: