Wisconsin football 2026

[adambr2]

You’d need to go back to about 1990 to the Lindy Infante/first year of Barry Alvarez era to find when the overall football product between the Packers and Badgers are both as bad as they’re going to be this year. Pretty depressing. 

[adambr2]

You know what I hate so much about Luke Fickell? He’s the kind of HC that sits on 2 timeouts and lets the clock run out with 30 seconds left in the half rather than force the opposing team to punt on 4th down because he’s happy that he’s only down 10.

[JosephC]

Penn State lost a huge chunk of their team and had played a complete joke schedule so far, so it was hard to tell what the Badgers were going to get.  But for some reason, earlier in the day, I got the feeling this would be a total blowout (probably a by-product of the humiliating Packer loss).  I'm impressed they are only down by 10.  Of course, they could come out in the second half and do what they did against Notre Dame, but we'll see about that.

[homer]

gah. that was a neat play call. too bad he dropped it 

[homer]

way to burn a timeout, PSU

[homer]

Punting here is dumb

[nate82]

Subtract the INT's and the Badgers maybe winning this game.

[nate82]

Wow! Way to redeem yourself there Harris!

[adambr2]

Is this really happening? Or they gonna blow it anyway?

[homer]

lol wut???

 

that was awesome

[adambr2]

That was a game saving defensive play if they hold on. 

[homer]

that was fun. Fickell is gonna get drunk tonight.

[nate82]

Defense looks legit.

[yourout]

Wow....did not see that coming.

[RedStickBrew]

56 minutes ago, nate82 said:

Defense looks legit.

Few more sacks would be nice. Otherwise it seems every position group has improved each game so far. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

From what I saw tonite (missed about a quarter & a half) it appeared to me about what I expected---UW couldn't run the ball w/the exception of Joseph occasionally getting loose, PSU therefore didn't need to overload the box, and because of that the short passes were going for very little. It looked like sometimes the short passing game was used to 'replace' the run, which usually only works for sufficient YAC yards vs bad teams. 

But the defense just kept getting them the ball back. I missed both PSU TDs but from what I understand one was a pick-6 & the other was like a 10-yd drive (I assume after a TO). So clearly the defense won them this game. The LBs have been really impressive before today, and now they did it on the road in a B10 game. And the secondary seems to play much better than the collective (lack of) experience. On the last PSU drive they mostly seemed to be right where they needed to be.

I would imagine the Penn State message boards are railing on their offense going into a shell late, but it really looked to me like more of a case of the UW defense just making play after play......after play. If I'm one of their fans I'm more upset about the defense allowing a TE to A) get wide open & B) run for about 50-60 yards (or whatever it was) after the catch. Had to be a major bust somewhere, but kudos to Joseph for keeping the play alive. And that was some kind of old-school stiff-arm by Harris.

IMO they'll have a tough time keeping the mistakes & turnovers---and losses--- to a minimum unless they can develop a better running game. Not to mention keeping Joseph healthy. But a great win, and you have to feel good for the kids.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Glad to see them pull that out. I have been wanting to see Fickell succeed. I'm pretty passive on the Badgers but I just don't think he's had great luck/support from the administration and unfortunate timing. I hope it was the start of good fortune for the program.