With the sporting world’s longest offseason finally over, what is your confidence level with the 2016 version of Wisconsin Badgers football? Do you look at that schedule and wince? Do you look at the rest of the Big Ten West and smile? Or do you entertain the notion that this Badger team might be the best team in the West and yet wind up being out of the division race by November?
The talent on the field makes this team interesting for sure. The offense will be led by someone other than Joel Stave for the first time in years (by this guy, no less) and the defense, although it lost last year’s best player and 75% of its starting secondary, still returns plenty of punch from the one that led the entire in country in points per game in 2015.