It’s safe to say the Wisconsin Badgers did not have the season they expected in 2023, going 7-6 with ugly losses to Northwestern and Indiana.
In fact, it was a season that head coach Luke Fickell would characterize as very average in all three phases of the game.
“I think you would agree that this offense needs to make a jump this year. So does the defense. We were very average in all categories. I mean, we just did our little kind of one day retreat and you do kind of look at the statistics and there’s not a category that you could say.