The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy released his final bowl predictions for the 2024 college football season on Monday.
His final postseason picks come with Week 0 set to begin on Saturday.
McMurphy has Wisconsin facing Texas A&M in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 in Nashville, Tennessee. While it would mark the Badgers’ 23rd consecutive year in a bowl game, it would certainly be an underwhelming result knowing the dynamic created by the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff.
Wisconsin has appeared in the Music City Bowl once before, falling to Auburn 28-14 in December of 2003. Last season’s matchup in the game was between Auburn (6-6) and Maryland (7-5), so that’s roughly where McMurphy expects Wisconsin’s record to fall in the regular season.
Luke Fickell and his squad have a rather challenging schedule in 2024, facing upper-echelon programs including Alabama (home), USC (road), Penn State (home) and Oregon (home). The Badgers enter the season as underdogs in seven games, so McMurphy’s prediction isn’t a slight towards Wisconsin by any means.
My @ActionNetworkHQ preseason bowl projections. @CFBPlayoff: Oregon, Alabama, Miami, Utah, Ohio State, Georgia, Ole Miss, LSU, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Iowa, Texas State. Also, Citrus: Nebraska-Texas; ReliaQuest: Michigan-Mizzou; Gator: FSU-Auburnhttps://t.co/w78knct5nX
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 19, 2024
Wisconsin’s 2024 campaign lines up to be a memorable one thanks to the high number of of marquee matchups on the schedule.