Wisconsin football 2026

[LouisEly]

UW flips 4-star CB Mekhi Williams from Florida State.  

UW currently sits #15 on 24/7's 2027 class ranking.

It appears that concerns about UW's record last year are a bit overblown.

[BrewerFan]

On 4/14/2026 at 5:10 PM, owbc said:

This is exciting news. Hopefully it is the first step to firing Fickell. A couple of poor performances with the soft schedule should be enough. 

I haven't been thrilled with Fickell(to say the least), but I REALLY hope he doesn't get fired. 

I'm going to hold out hope he can turn it around until the last possible minute... and things are looking up with this class. 

[CheezWizHed]

2 hours ago, LouisEly said:

UW flips 4-star CB Mekhi Williams from Florida State.  

UW currently sits #15 on 24/7's 2027 class ranking.

It appears that concerns about UW's record last year are a bit overblown.

To be fair... no one cares if you win the offseason.  Still have to make it count on the field. 

1 hour ago, BrewerFan said:

I haven't been thrilled with Fickell(to say the least), but I REALLY hope he doesn't get fired. 

I'm going to hold out hope he can turn it around until the last possible minute... and things are looking up with this class. 

Yeah, I'm kind of there too.  He has really stunk the last few years, but it FINALLY looks like he has turned recruiting around a bit.  I don't want to lose that momentum now.  But I also don't want to be thinking in three years that he still stinks. 

[BrewerFan]

2 hours ago, CheezWizHed said:

Yeah, I'm kind of there too.  He has really stunk the last few years, but it FINALLY looks like he has turned recruiting around a bit.  I don't want to lose that momentum now.  But I also don't want to be thinking in three years that he still stinks. 

No... I guess I was thinking if he doesn't show a lot of improvement with a new AD, he'll likely get fired and then it's that much further out before Badger Football is relevant again. 

I would have felt great about the Badgers in this current B1G up until maybe Covid. Now it's just painful to watch. 

[JosephC]

Fickell is a dead man walking.  There was some hope that, with the weak schedule, the Badgers could be an 8 or maybe even 9 win team in 2026.  After the spring practice reports, the same people are now thinking 6 wins and maybe push that to 7 if they get a weak bowl matchup.  Even with a 7-6 record, that would bring Fickell's record at Wisconsin to a pitiful 24-27.  A new AD will want to hire "their guy" anyway, and a 7-6, 24-27 record will not be nearly enough to save Fickell.

Not to just dump on Fickell, as it is pretty obvious at this point that 75% of the problem was idiot Chris McIntosh and 25% Fickell.  But that said, there has been nothing to indicate that Fickell is a Big 10 level coach.  He looks like a mid-major coach that recruits mid-major players and hires mid-major assistant coaches.  What do you know, the 6-7 record he had as Ohio State's head coach doesn't look like a fluke after all.

And as far as celebrating high school commits in June, what a joke after what happened last year.  Do the names Jayden Petit and Amari Latimer ring any bells?  Even Latimer's "replacement," Qwantavius Wiggins, never made it to campus and will not be playing for the Badgers.  I can see getting excited about some of the in-state players that commit, but a June verbal from anybody else is completely worthless.