Wisconsin is easily my favorite road trip. If anyone is thinking about going, just do it. Go to Mad-town. Wrote a detailed post on this very site maybe 20 years ago about the entire experience. Too bad that wasn't archived in the Wayback Machine.
This is going to be one heck of a season opener. Vegas will probably favor UW. Gives our guys something to focus on every day in the off-season. If you follow Jahan Dotson on social media, he looks extremely motivated and I hope he reflects the spirit of the entire team.
Mertz strikes me as a QB that will transform Wisconsin from being a one-dimensional team and make everyone pay for loading the box. Berger is already a quality RB. Assume they have the usual cast up front. Does anyone know if they have any weapons in the receiving game?
No idea how this game plays out. If Noah Cain is at full strength then I can see us winning which would be huge. Chryst has always been extremely productive as a play-caller and I think many are underestimating him and Mertz, but I'm relieved that we have a guy like Mike Yurcich who will be like Joe Moorhead in understanding how to use our athletes to put points on the board... only concern is that we're expecting this offense to be a finished product on Day 1.
We're going to need our defense to come up big, starting with a nasty DL backed by a run-stuffing MLB and a swarming secondary. We have more questions to answer than UW with the biggest ones being MLB and QB. Let's see who steps up. A win would plug us right into the conversation about fringe playoff contenders and serve as a warning shot to OSU.