Wisconsin Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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Oct 7, 2023; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; General view of a Wisconsin Badgers helmet during the game against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Camp Randall Stadium.

In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 Wisconsin football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does Wisconsin miss?

Wisconsin Football Schedule: Relatively certain Badger wins

South Dakota, Western Michigan

Wisconsin Football Schedule: Relatively certain Badger underdog games

Alabama, at Iowa, Oregon, Penn State, at USC

Wisconsin Football Schedule: Who do the Badgers miss in the Big Ten?

Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, UCLA, Washington

2024 Wisconsin Football Schedule

Aug 31 Western Michigan
Sept 7 South Dakota
Sept 14 Alabama
Sept 21 OPEN DATE
Sept 28 at USC
Oct 5 Purdue
Oct 12 at Rutgers
Oct 19 at Northwestern
Oct 26 Penn State
Nov 2 at Iowa
Nov 9 OPEN DATE
Nov 16 Oregon
Nov 23 at Nebraska
Nov 30 Minnesota

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.