MADISON – The Big Ten’s 2024 football media days, set for July 23-25 in Indianapolis, are less than three weeks away.
UW’s representatives are set to appear on Day 1, along with Ohio State, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue and Rutgers.
As fans prepare for Year 2 under Luke Fickell and a schedule that includes several marquee home games, we’ve decided to rate that schedule from the most important/intriguing game to the least.
1. UW looks to stem the new-look Crimson Tide
New head coach Kalen DeBoer brings Alabama, which should be 2-0 and in the top 10 of both polls, to Camp Randall Stadium on Sept. 14.
We know Nick Saban is retired and this isn’t a Big Ten game. Yet this game should offer Fickell and his players the opportunity to announce to the college football world that the Badgers could be a force in the Big Ten in 2024.
And it has been a few years since a nonconference foe ranked in the top 10 visited Madison. That was 1989, when No. 3 Miami recorded a 51-3 victory over Don Morton’s squad.
2. Will Dan Lanning’s Oregon Ducks like the feel of the Midwest in the middle of November?
Oregon, expected to challenge for the Big Ten title, visits Camp Randall Stadium on Nov. 16.
The programs have split six meetings, with Oregon winning the past three games. Two of those games came in Pasadena, in the 2012 and 2020 Rose Bowls.
Lanning is 22-5 in two seasons at Oregon and has the Ducks capable of challenging for a national title.
3. Badgers hoping to take Los Angeles by storm
What would be the best way for Fickell’s team to open Big Ten play in 2024? With a road victory over USC and Lincoln Riley, a media darling who has coached three Heisman-winning quarterbacks − Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray at Oklahoma, and Caleb Williams at USC.
Don’t sleep on the Badgers in this Sept. 28 matchup in the Los Angeles Coliseum….
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Author : Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-07-05 11:03:15
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