After an offseason full of question marks, a decision to cancel the season, the season then getting reinstated and a month of waiting, it is finally Wisconsin Badger game week.
Check in to BadgersWire throughout the week as we preview the contest, preview Week 1 in the Big Ten and tell you what the Badgers will need to do to defeat the Illinois Fighting Illini and start their season 1-0.
If you’re a fan of college football you know the SEC, ACC and Big 12 have already completed up to five weeks of their regular seasons, weeks which have seen several highly-ranked teams getting upset and dropping in the national rankings.
Due to this, despite the fact that the Badgers are yet to take the field, the team continued its rise in the AP Poll this weekend and jumped two spots up to No. 14 in the nation.
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Their spot at No. 14 is up five spots since Big Ten teams returned to the poll in Week 4, up two spots from their Week 5 and Week 6 rankings and keeps them as the No. 3 team in the Big Ten behind Ohio State and Penn State.
Other notable moves in this week’s poll include Texas A&M jumping from No. 11 to No. 7 after their win against Mississippi State, North Carolina dropping from No. 5 to No. 14, Auburn falling out of the rankings and the trio of Coastal Carolina, NC State and Marshall joining the top 25.
The poll is likely to be shaken up even more when the Big Ten returns to the field this weekend, but even though the Badgers sit at 0-0 they are still receiving praise from Associated Press writers as teams around them lose games and plummet in the rankings.