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Wisconsin vs. Miami (OH): Football Season Opener Preview
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Speaker 2:Absolutely, we're good. We're good. I'm ready for some more Badger football. Oh man it's been too long.
Speaker 1:It has been too long. Yeah, it's been too long. It has been too long, though. Yeah, it wasn't. I mean you're talking late last november, the last time we watched this badger football team, and it's like not even the most of guys are gone now. So most of the guys that we remember are gone. So it's like we're just watching luke fickle and some randos come back and we're like excited about it. So that's where we got to be. That's a transfer. Finally, that craziness is done. Right, we had the, the speculation and the transfer portal and who's gonna start and who's gonna be this guy and all that. It's all done, that's all gone. Now we just get to watch it play itself out on the football field tomorrow night against miami of ohio on a third random. I hate thursday night football games, I do and now it's like we're the badgers opening up the season on a thursday night. It's yeah. How far have we fallen, christian. How far have we fallen, christian? How far have we fallen?
Speaker 1:But we don't want to talk about how far we've fallen. We want to talk about what this schedule is going to look like this season, because we want to get our final thoughts, projections, everything on the 2025 schedule. We're going to talk about that now and then we're going to preview the opening game, the first game of the season, against Miami of Ohio. So, right off the bat here, let's talk this 2025 schedule. So I'm going to run through the list real fast and then we'll talk about key games, whatever we think is going to be in there. So, week one Miami, ohio. We know that that's coming up tomorrow night.
Speaker 1:Next week we have Middle Tennessee and then Alabama, followed by Maryland, michigan, iowa, ohio State, oregon, washington, indiana, illinois, minnesota. You have one, two, three, four, five, six ranked teams as of right now on that schedule. Six top 25 teams on that schedule as of right now. So, looking at that schedule, you're looking at the matchups who should they beat? Who are those teams that you're looking at that schedule right now and you're like those games should be. I mean not fairly, should not be like. You know, no doubts, but almost no doubts.
Speaker 2:Well, I think you got to start with the first two at least, right, grant? I don't think we'll talk about this, but I don't think Miami of Ohio is necessarily going to be a cakewalk. They're not your like typical FCS warm-up game that the SEC likes to play. So I think Miami of Ohio, middle Tennessee for sure like have to have them. I think Maryland is the most winnable conference game. They have to win that one. Outside of that, I don't know, man, things that are like I mean should win, like got to beat Minnesota to end the year, like have to beat them. I want to say Washington, but I think they're going to be pretty good this year too. Man, I think Iowa is a game you got to win too. That's a gettable game.
Speaker 2:Outside of that, like I know, illinois is ranked 12th in the AP pool right now, which I think is a little high. I think they're really good. I think I hate that Beelum is doing really, really well with them, but I also love it because it adds a little bit to the rivalry that really hasn't been there for how long. But and then I just I hate Indiana, just because you know I think they're frauds. But that's just, that's me. I think they're frauds. So I hate, how much you know. I hate that they got into a college football playoff before the Badgers, whereas if they were, what? 12 teams? How many years ago we would have been in multiple times. But anyways. So I think I've said that two to the three non-conference games Maryland, iowa, then I would say Washington and Minnesota, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean that's putting you right around your win total. I think they have marked at 5.5, so it's putting you right around that win total of that 5.5. So I would be in that same boat right now. I think we're going to get a lot of the questions where you're like questioning yourself like, do I think they can win this game or not? I think we're going to get those answers in that game against miami ohio, because this is why I say because it's going to be how they come out in that game. Do they look like they're prepared? Do they look like this? Jeff grimes offense is going to flourish and miami ohio that's a solid. Like you said, they're not a pushover fcs team by any means. They're a decent team. I think they're what's their. I can't remember their quarterback off the top of my head right now Daquan Finn. The Badgers were looking at him. The Badgers wanted him. They settled on. Was that Mordecai year or was that Van Dyke?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think Daquan Finn priced the Badgers out pretty quick. I think he went for over a million dollars and I don't think the Badgers were quite ready to pay for that. I think Baylor eventually won that out, but he didn't even win the starting job with them last year, and that's something he ended up not even starting at Baylor then.
Speaker 1:So just taking the money, basically, but no playing time to go along with it.
Speaker 2:Transfer portals are crazy.
Speaker 1:It is. It definitely is, and that's why I'm glad it's over with now. I'm glad that's over with and we're just getting to some real football right now here. So you look at the games they should win, right, what are those games? When you look at this schedule where you say to yourself, okay, this would be a momentum game changer, luke fickle, pristine moment. Where do you see that game on this schedule where you say to yourself, if they win this game, we look at luke fickle, we look at this program, this program, the trajectory all of a sudden just flips right in the eyes of you. Maybe other Badger fans out there, if they win that game, I know, if they beat Alabama, right. But let's talk realistic here. Where do you see that game on the schedule where you're like, okay, that could be the program defining the change, the momentum of where this ship is heading. Game on the schedule right now.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, kind of like you said, there's not going to be any shortage of games to pick from on the schedule. But I think, if we want to talk realistic games, I think Michigan is kind of that game. I think the Badgers are coming off a bye. Yep, the Badgers are going to be coming off a bye for that game because they've got an extra week to prepare. We'll see. Badgers are going to be coming off a bye for that game, so they've got an extra week to prepare. We'll see. Is their coach for sure suspended for the Badger game or are they still kind of deciding which team he's going to get suspended for? I think they're still deciding that thing. So maybe they'll be with Oxaron more right, and I don't know if they're going to have that true freshman underwood as their starting quarterback. I mean I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I know it's in the big house. I know the Badgers have to travel on the road, but I mean they're not beating Alabama, ohio State's. I mean, unless we go back to what, 2010,? Maybe we pull off a big upset there, I don't see us going to Eugene and beating Oregon. I wouldn't say that a win over Indiana, or necessarily Illinois, is going to be a program defining oh we turned it around, like we're in the right direction, kind of thing. So I think Michigan's probably that game I would pick If they won, because what's fickle.
Speaker 2:I think it's 0-6 all time against ranked teams, with the Badgers right, I think. Granted, I don't know if Michigan's as good as 14th where they're ranked right now, but I think, going to the big house beating Michigan, who I'm sure I think they have one, I can't remember their schedules. I think they have one tough game in there before the playoffs, but they're going to be ranked when we play them. If we can go there and get a win there, I think that would definitely change the attitude of a lot of Badger fans. I like that one. I like that one. Oklahoma Second week they're at Oklahoma.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, there it is. There it is. There was one. Okay, that's the one.
Speaker 2:I chose not to suspend for.
Speaker 1:I think it was like week three and four that I think Sherron Moore he's got two games there. I know for sure week three and four.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought it was against New Mexico. And then they skip one where he can coach against Oklahoma, but then they'll suspend them again for Central Michigan.
Speaker 1:That must be what it is. So it must be that. Well, yeah, that's the way that they'll shake it. You know Michigan. You know Michigan and how that operates. The NCAA doesn't care about Michigan, just Wisconsin and Knizery, fort Greene and all that kind of stuff there. So I was looking at this Ohio State. Okay, I know this is a pipe dream, so give me my pipe dream moment of the day. Here they play Illinois and then they play Wisconsin and then they play Penn State. So give me my pipe dream moment. Just give me my pipe dream moment. But my trap middle of the sandwich game where, if Illinois is any good and you have Penn State after that, you give me my pipe dream of Wisconsin sandwiched in between them in Camp Randall, most likely under the lights, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I've seen Ryan Day screw things up before he did at Michigan. That's true, camp Randall. You've got a healthy Badger squad coming into that one. Knock on wood. A healthy Badger squad Doesn't turn the ball over. Hopefully, right, doesn't turn the ball over. Run game gets going. The offensive line looks good. We've seen crazier things. We saw number one ohio state go down in camp randall at one point in 2010 when the badgers got hot with a bunch of no-name guys. Jj watt made a name for himself in that game. Crazy things have happened. Now I'm not saying that's gonna happen I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but but that's a sandwich game. That's a a potential game where I mean following that Penn State. That could be because Penn State's ranked number two going into the season. You could be looking at a one-and-two matchup with Ohio State and Penn State at one point.
Speaker 1:Maybe, just maybe it's a sandwich. It's that trap game that we always worry about with Wisconsin. This is the reverse trap game that might help out. So yeah, that was the one that I saw when I was kind of just diving into the schedules a little bit there and, uh, seeing it across. So we see those, what would be in your eyes? So let's look in your eyes here, what would be a successful season. A successful season in your eyes is it getting that win total of that, you know, over under five and a half. Is it getting to that? Is it getting back to a bowl game? Because now they, I think they make it more accessible for bowl games now, like six wins basically can get you in yep are you saying?
Speaker 1:are you saying, get back to a bowl game. That's successful. Is it winning one of those big games against iowa or minnesota or illinois, you know, winning one of those? The those aren't going to be the program-defining games, but I mean, luke Fickle is defining games right because he hasn't won one of those kinds of games yet. So is it one of those? What is a successful season in your eyes for this Wisconsin Badger?
Speaker 2:I mean I think it could be a couple things right. I think getting, especially with this schedule considered, if they get back to a bowl game game, I think that's a success. I know that's kind of like the cheap way out and I know Badge fans still can be happy with the 6-6 record, but if you're playing what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 teams that are currently ranked, including 3 of them, are in the top 8. You know what I mean. They easily have I.
Speaker 2:I know, like people love to talk about how difficult the sec schedule is, but, like outside of the sec, the badgers have the hardest schedule in all of college football. So, yep, you got to temper your expectations. Yes, we all want to turn around, we want them to look really good and I think. But when you play a schedule this difficult this isn't the big 10 west, right you can't just sleepwalk through and just rack up wins. They're going to have to work really hard for a lot of these wins and they're not just going to get wins just by showing up like they have in the past. So I think with that, if you get six wins here and you're bowl eligible with the fifth hardest schedule in college football, whatever it is, I think that's a success.
Speaker 2:On the other hand, I think, even if maybe they only win five games and they miss a bowl game if you beat Iowa and Minnesota, I don't want to say it's a success. But I think that's going to make some Badger fans happy because right now that trophy case is empty. I can't remember the last time it's ever been empty. But it's empty right now and there's nothing in there. So I think if they can get them both back at the ax, back at the Heartland trophy, back I don't know or maybe if they just beat, maybe, if what? If they do? Just pull a huge upset over Ohio state, like, and then maybe sprinkling three, four other wins, like you only have five wins but you beat Oregon, that's like a program turnaround, a defining win, even though maybe the rest of the season didn't go the way you wanted. But maybe you have some momentum going into the next season after pulling off a huge game like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I would agree. No, I would agree with that 100%. I think you got to get that defined. I think Luke Fickle needs that defining win. I think he needs that signature win on his resume. That will calm down a lot of Badger fans if he, like you said, it's. I don't think it's as much that he lost the trophies. I think it's the way that he lost them.
Speaker 1:I think it was the mutt kickings that were delivered when he lost those trophies that I think kind of put the number on them there. So I would say I would agree with you successful season. Get back to a bowl game. And if you don't, even if you don't just getting those wins along the way, getting a minnesota, getting an iowa winning those kinds of game or getting that signature program win like we're talking about the ohio state or somebody crazy like that would definitely be there. So before we hit a quick commercial break final prediction of your record prediction. Give it to me, I'm gonna write it down on the whiteboard. We'll see who's right. What do you got for me? Final record prediction I'm gonna 6-6.
Speaker 2:That's kind of what I've been 6-6. Ever since I started looking at this. Even with the optimist point of view here, I got a, I think, 6-6. Miami, middle Tennessee, maryland is 3, iowa is 4, minnesota is 5, and then any of what They'll get, one against either Washington, indiana or Illinois.
Speaker 1:Yes, 100%. Miami, ohio, Middle Tennessee, maryland that's three. Yes, they're going to beat Iowa. I got a feeling in that one. They'll beat Minnesota because they suck. So give me five. Yep, hate.
Speaker 2:Minnesota.
Speaker 1:I think I'm at six. God, I can't do that. I can't do that. Give me seven and five Give me seven and five.
Speaker 2:Give me seven and five. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 1:They're going to pull the Miranda upset. They're going to beat Kurt Singetti. Knock Indiana right out. They're going to beat Minnesota and Iowa.
Speaker 2:They're going to knock Maryland, let's beat Illinois too.
Speaker 1:They're going to beat Illinois along the way.
Speaker 2:Brett Biela don't even want to coach anymore, let's beat Bert.
Speaker 1:He's done, he's done. So after the quick break we're going to come back. Christian's going to stick around. We're going to come back here. We're going to talk Badgers and Miami of Ohio. We're going to preview that game for you guys here tonight. So we'll be right back here on Wisconsin Sports on the Go with Trades on the backside of this quick ad break Back into Wisconsin Sports on the go with Trage. I'm your host, trage, as we come back here on this Wednesday. And hey, this next segment here is brought to you by Casa M Spice.
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Speaker 2:I think you got to go with William Contreras right Wild Bill.
Speaker 1:The Wild Bill.
Speaker 2:He's been on a tear, he's been lighting it up.
Speaker 1:He's been lighting it up as of late. Here, Wild Bill. You know he finally figured out how to hit with a broken finger, and then it's like all took off for him.
Speaker 1:Took figured out how to hit with a broken finger and then it's like all took off for him. Took long enough. Right, it took long enough. It took him until, like the you know, let's go three-quarters of the way through the season we had to basically talk about. Everybody in Brewerland was talking about you like getting surgery and going away, and now you're like, oh, I'll start hitting. That's fine guys. So yeah, william Cont on here.
Speaker 1:Bryce Terang I mean you can't get rid of this guy on here 375 over the last seven games, over the last 15 games, he's hitting 333. Over the last 30 games, he's hitting 315. Wow, just wow. Those numbers are just jaw-dropping. The home runs have been unreal. He's lighting it up at the plate at all facets going the other way with it. This guy's been hot. Got to love what Bryce Terang has been doing as of late here. So those two guys, contreras and Terang and I know there's a lot of brewers who we could probably throw on that list outside of Anthony Siegler. As we know, a lot of people want Anthony Siegler to go away, but anyways, those guys are going to be on our.
Speaker 1:Casa M Spice Bowl. The players of the week slide over into a little bit of badger preview here because we talked about in this last segment. There we were talking about the badgers and our projections for the season and everything like that. If you guys missed it, make sure you check us out podcast platform wisconsin sports on the go trade. But let's get into this game miami ohio. So we got an eight o'clock kick right for this one. It's going to be a light one here at Camp.
Speaker 1:Randall on the Big Ten Network Badgers favored right now, according to ESPN, they're giving them an 83% chance to win. Kind of sucks that they're only getting an 83% chance to beat Miami of Ohio, seeing as most people don't even know that Miami of Ohio is a place. So, christian, looking at this team, what do you see? When you look at Miami of Ohio, I mean, just give me a rundown of this team. I know there's probably not a whole lot to go off of at this very moment, but just give me a rundown. What is this team like? What do we expect from miami of ohio?
Speaker 2:I think they're gonna be tough man, like we talked about a little bit last segment. But I think this is not gonna be just an easy non-conference game. They they're, I think, going off of last year they're a very solid defensive team. They didn't lose a whole lot. And you can tell they didn't lose a lot because I sat and looked through their transfers. I wrote a preview for the Badger backer. Nice little plug there. Go check it out. I looked at the transfer form and like they brought in 14 guys and I think one guy was on defense it was a defensive lineman and I couldn't even find him anywhere on the two deep depth charts. So either he's just not even on the team anymore or he's just not that good or not as good as the guys that they already had. So I think they're pretty solid defensively. Um, I guess we'll start with defense. Um, they got a pair of safeties that I was looking at Silas Walters and Eli Blakely. Walters had 95 tackles last year as a safety and Blakely had 89. These are like combined tackles, right, not solo tackles. They don't really produce a whole lot of turnovers or interceptions, stuff like that, but they're just stout defensively. I think they're actually a really good run defense. They had a couple guys I think they gave up like the 15th fewest rushing yards per game last season in all of college football, not just like group of five or whatever. So I think the like something I wrote in my preview. I think we're definitely going to see the offensive line and just the you know the Jeff Grimes running game that everyone's talking about, how we're trying to make that a focal point of the Badgers offense. Again, we're going to see if it you know how good they actually are, cause they got a couple of guys on the defensive line to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2:Uh, what's his name? Nazeer Washington. He's a redshirt senior. He had 31 tackles last year, two tackles for us, three pass deflections as a defensive lineman. But on PFF, if anyone follows that, he had an elite run defense grade of 86.1, which was like what was it? I think it was top 10 in the country for like great. So I mean I don't think he had like that many necessarily reps or, but the fact that he graded out that high it tells you he's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have a pretty stout defensive line. So our offensive line which we're getting, we're getting our starting center back, jake Renfro's back, so that's good. So we're only going to be tested there. They got a couple good linebackers too Corbin Hondrew and Oscar McWood. Both have just which. Actually, corbin Hondrew, whatever he is, he had three interceptions last week. He led the team. That's the linebacker. So I thought that was interesting too.
Speaker 2:But I think he might be kind of like one of those hybrid safety linebackers, so, yep, and then offensively, just kind of looking at him, I think the biggest test the batters are going to have is their quarterback is, uh, daquan finn we talked about a last segment a little bit went to baylor. Uh, what was that? Toledo before that had a big season in his junior year. We had 2,600 passing yards, 22 touchdowns, 9 picks. But he's a mobile quarterback and they absolutely give the Badgers fits.
Speaker 2:I think we talked about this a little bit during the break, but last year when Drew Allard got hurt in the Penn State game, or I think it was still oh, the Badgers were up 10-7 at halftime of the Penn State game.
Speaker 2:Right, drew Eller goes out, bo Pribula comes in and all of a sudden they just fall apart. What did Bo Pribula add? He had 28. He had six carries for 28 yards and I'm pretty sure all those carries were like back breakers on third downs or something like that. And then the Iowa game oh, that guy had like 50-some yards rushing against us and he was another backup quarterback. So I think we really last year they really really struggled with dual-threat quarterbacks, right. I think Tackett Curtis was hurt all year last year. We didn't really get to see him to his full potential. Everything I saw from him in fall camp is like just his speed. I think his sideline-to-sideline speed is really going to be shown on Thursday night and hopefully he'll help. Uh, between him and Christian Allegro, hopefully contain or contain the uh dual threat quarterback on Thursday night.
Speaker 1:We'll see yeah, no, I, you went way in depth there I was just yeah, sorry, sorry, no no no, no, no, that's okay. I was mesmerized listening to that. I was just mesmermerized.
Speaker 2:I'm like I just learned everything, I just dove right into it.
Speaker 1:I got everything that I need to know about this Miami of Ohio team. I was like holy crap, he went deep into that one. That was great stuff. That was great stuff there. So I don't want to go through the whole darn two deep there because everybody, if you want to see it there, you can find out there to search Wisconsin Badgers two deep and you can find the depth chart here for their first game here. But just some of the surprises. I guess for me the wide receiver this was the biggest one. I guess I would say the wide receiver room we saw chris brooks jr get in opposite of vinnie anthony over top of a guy like jayden baylor. So that was interesting, that wider serum. Also, seeing that we saw eugene hilton in there as one of the backups. So that was pretty cool to see eugene hilton being talked about in that same light. So I guess were you surprised to see chris brooks instead of jayden baylor in there?
Speaker 2:I was absolutely well. Okay, I initially, and then I thought about it a little bit. Jaden Ballard was. He made a lot of headlines during spring ball. He had a lot. He apparently had a pretty good-looking connection with Billy Edwards Jr. They connected on a lot of deep balls. From what I've heard, all the practices I went to this fall I really didn't even notice Ballard in any of their 11-on-11 or 7-on-7 stuff. But I honestly didn't really notice Chris Brooks Jr either. I noticed a lot of Vinny Anthony and I noticed a lot of Eugene Hilton Jr. But Chris Brooks Jr though he's been one of those guys like you've heard over the last few years, like has a ton of potential, he has a ton of flashes during practice and stuff, but then you just never see him in a game. So maybe just he did enough. They liked it. He's athletic. It's going to take a minute for me to remember that he's number one now, not 84 or whatever he was.
Speaker 1:I've heard he changed it a couple times. Now I've heard he changed around.
Speaker 2:So if you see number one on offense, that's who that is, because I went to a practice and I'm like who is this number one guy? Like there's no number one on the roster. I couldn't figure out who it was. They did the same thing on defense. I think it's. Jameer Lattimore did it too. Jameer Lattimore did it too. He changed from 21 to one.
Speaker 1:I was extremely confused, but so, yeah, that gets me every time is when guys the ball have the same number and I'm like same numbers, yep, that always gets to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was the Chris Brooks jr. Being first in the depth chart was a little bit of a. It was just a surprise to me too, when I noticed that was one of the first things I noticed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was one of those where I I've heard that he's good blockers so maybe that's why they like get them into a Jeff grind system. Needs a blocking, needs a blocking. I would definitely agree with that one there. Outside of that, everything else kind of shook out what you would think for the most part there, uh, defensively outside linebacker. I see they got daryl peterson listed above mason rieger tech.
Speaker 1:If you look at like the depth chart, it's yeah, the or peterson or mason college coaches love putting, or they love, or so I don't know if mason rieger is going to be out there on the first possession or if it's going to you know if he's going to be out there first snap or if it's going to be daryl peterson, I would assume mason rieger, I guess real quick before I gotta let you go. Is there any other like guy that you saw there? Is there anything you're looking at this week here for the badges where you're like I want to see this guy. I want to see this guy. What are you looking at here in week one?
Speaker 2:like I think I said I want to see, I want to see tackett curtis, I want to see him at his like full potential. I know last year he came in some high expectations. He was a huge, highly sought after recruit, went to usc instead of wisconsin, came to wisconsin but just wasn't never 100 healthy. So, um, now apparently he is. He says he is, uh, he looks like it. In the few practices I've been to he's has a lot of speed for a middle linebacker. So that's a guy I'm really, really looking forward to watching on thursday night, tomorrow night okay I like that one on me I like that one.
Speaker 1:There it's. It's tomorrow night. Goodness gracious, it's already oh my gosh I can't wait to watch mason rieger because I am hoping, I am praying, that it is all not hype and it is all everything that I've heard. It is just a game wrecker that the Badgers have been waiting for on that defensive line since, I don't know, leo Chanel left. Basically, I don't know. You can probably go back to that. I mean, it's been a while.
Speaker 1:It has definitely been a while since they had a game wrecker in there in that linebacker. It's just something that was a staple for so many years. That just wasn't there over the past couple was that game wrecker in that?
Speaker 2:linebacker room. So, christian, thank you as always. Let the people know where to find you out. There, you can find me at the badger backer. Feel free to subscribe there. Otherwise, on twitter, blue sky and all the social media, so you can find me at christian borman on there you guys definitely gotta check him out.
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