All College Football Playoff hopes may be gone, but Wisconsin still has plenty to play for this season. The Badgers desperately needed to get back on track and blow out a bad Illinois squad on Saturday after their ugly showing against Michigan.
It wasn’t exactly a masterful performance across the board, but Wisconsin overcame the wild weather conditions and took out Illinois in convincing fashion, with a final score of 49-20.
Thanks in part to losses by a few programs that had been ranked higher than the Badgers last week, the AP voters made the move the bring Wisconsin up three spots from No.