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Wisconsin football legend JJ Watt gave a powerful message to the 2025 Badgers team during a recent visit. Watt is one of the greatest defensive linemen ever, and he really began to gain his outstanding form in Madison. It all came together for the Pewaukee, Wisconsin native in 2010, where he was named a First-team […]

Wisconsin football is getting hit with some tough news in the transfer portal. Despite his recent contract extension, head coach Luke Fickell’s tenure in Madison has not gotten off to an ideal start. For the first time since 2001, the Badgers did not make a bowl game in 2024. This program, therefore, is in need […]

Wisconsin football rarely scores west coast recruiting wins. But the Badgers and Luke Fickell swooped up a huge California recruiting victory Sunday. Including beating out Missouri and Duke for this dual-threat from a distinguished powerhouse. The Badgers received their newest verbal commit from quarterback Ryan Hopkins, who lines up for Mater Dei in Santa Ana. […]

Wisconsin football has delivered trouble reestablishing itself as a dominating force under Luke Fickell. The Badgers head coach appeared to be heading for the hot seat this fall. But a university decision eased his job concerns. Fickell emerged as one of four Wisconsin coaches agreeing to a new contract Wednesday, the school announced. Fickell earns […]

Wisconsin football is losing another quarterback to the transfer portal. The Badgers are coming off a very poor second season under head coach Luke Fickell. Wisconsin went 5-7 overall, 3-6 in the Big Ten conference, and will miss its first bowl game since 2001. The consequences of a disappointing 2024 have already reared their ugly […]

With the Wisconsin football team taking on the Nebraska Cornhuskers this Saturday, they are in the midst of an underwhelming season that could have seen it turn around in their last outing. As the Wisconsin football team almost upset the No. 1 Oregon Ducks, one college football insider had a short and simple answer when […]

Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell is taking the blame for his team’s close loss to undefeated Oregon. Wisconsin almost came up with a huge upset Saturday, but ultimately lost 16-13. “There was not a doubt in the eyes in the locker room, and I do mean that,” Fickell said, per Sports Illustrated. “But, I do […]

After a pair of uninspired 14-point wins over Western Michigan and South Dakota in the opening weeks of the 2024 college football season, the Wisconsin Badgers are set for their first big test of the season this weekend when Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide roll into Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday afternoon. This […]

With a new transfer quarterback, Wisconsin head football coach Luke Fickell is eager to begin the upcoming NCAA football season and shared his thoughts on what he likes most about the Badgers’ fifth-year quarterback. For Miami transfer Tyler Van Dyke, entering his fifth and final year, putting together the best season of his college football […]

The college football offseason is almost over as we are halfway through July. The season will get going in about a month and a half, and college football fans everywhere are eager for the new beginning. College football fever is rampant across the country as we get closer to the season, but also because of […]

The college football offseason is almost over as we are halfway through July. The season will get going in about a month and a half, and college football fans everywhere are eager for the new beginning. College football fever is rampant across the country as we get closer to the season, but also because of […]

As the Wisconsin football program heads into their second season under coach Luke Fickell, a historic promotion should help the program grow into the future. According to the latest report, the Badgers are promoting 24-year-old Max Stienecker from player personnel director to general manager of the football team, per On3 Sports. He’s set to become […]

Luke Fickell just finished up his first season as the head coach of the Wisconsin football team, and it didn’t go all that well. The Badgers finished the season with a 7-6 overall record and a 5-4 record in Big Ten conference play. It wasn’t great, but it was also just Fickell’s first season. Wisconsin […]

It was expected, and on Wednesday, it happened. Jim Harbaugh is no longer the head coach of the Michigan football team as he is moving back to the NFL to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. The Wolverines were prepared to make Harbaugh the highest paid coach in college football, but it […]

The USC Trojans fired defensive coordinator Alex Grinch after another disappointing season on that side of the ball. Now, Grinch has found a new job in college football. He is joining Luke Fuckell and the Wisconsin football staff as a safeties coach, per Colten Bartholomew of Badger Extra. ‘Breaking: #Badgers set to hire Alex Grinch […]

Taking over a college football program in the first year is never easy because the entire reason for a new head coach being hired is that things weren’t working with the predecessor. But with a new head coach comes new optimism under new leadership. And no one brought more optimism to a program than Deion […]

Wisconsin football lands one of the best defensive prospects in the transfer portal, Tackett Curtis, per Hayes Fawcett of On3. The freshman played one season with the USC Trojans, just before packing his bags to a historic Big Ten program. He’s now in Madison, Wisconsin with a defensive-minded head coach in Luke Fickell. Curtis likely […]

To bring in the New Year, the Wisconsin Badgers will face the No. 13 LSU Tigers in the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa Bay, FL. It will be only the fifth time these teams have faced one another with the series in the Tigers’ favor, 3-1, meeting last in 2016. Wisconsin football will be bowling for […]

One of the more obvious players in the transfer portal during this cycle was Miami football’s Tyler Van Dyke. A former four-star recruit out of Connecticut, many thought that Van Dyke would be the next great Hurricanes quarterback that they had so desperately been missing for decades. There were times where that seemed the case, […]

With players still being able to get an extra year of eligibility due to COVID, Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell admitted it is a bit weird seeing many older players all across college football as running back Chez Mellusi mulls his decision regarding coming back for a sixth season after suffering an injury. Mellusi will […]

Wisconsin head football coach Luke Fickell revealed a reason why he came to Wisconsin during Big Ten Media Days on Thursday. “It has a lot to do with being back in the Big Ten,” Fickell said, via a Friday tweet from ESPN Senior College Football Senior Writer Adam Rittenberg. “It has a lot to do with the […]

New Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell isn’t putting any limitations on what he can accomplish in the 2023 season. Taking over a Wisconsin football program that is coming off its worst season in 14 years, Luke Fickell expects the Badgers to be much better. Under Paul Chryst and interim coach Jim Leonhard, the Wisconsin football […]

The college football recruitment cycle is never ending, even in the middle of the summer. Moreover, high school players have gotten more and more creative with commitment announcements. In one of the most creative commitment videos in recent memory, four-star Class of 2024 player Anelu Lafaele announced his destination and made Luke Fickell and the […]

Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell knows that the program needs to do a better job of recruiting within the state. During his recruiting cycle with the Badgers failed to successfully recruit any of the top five players in Wisconsin. But one disappointing recruiting cycle won’t stop Luke Fickell from aggressively trying to get the state’s […]

We’re still a few months away from the return of college football, but the anticipation is slowly building across the country with spring practices in the books. There’s plenty of optimism surrounding the Wisconsin football team with first-year head coach Luke Fickell leading the Badgers into a new exciting era. Below, we continue our college […]

Wisconsin Badgers running back Braelon Allen gave a glowing endorsement of new Wisconsin football coach Luke Fickell during an interview with Max Chadwick of Pro Football Focus. “I knew right away that he’s a great leader,” Braelon Allen said, via Chadwick. “He’s a player’s coach and he’s a winner. All of the qualities that you […]

Luke Fickell has seemingly found a new starter for the Wisconsin Badgers, with Adam Rittenberg of ESPN reporting that SMU Mustangs signal-caller Tanner Mordecai expected to land with Wisconsin football after entering the transfer portal. #SMU quarterback Tanner Mordecai entered the transfer portal earlier tonight and is expected to land at #Wisconsin, according to sources. […]

The 2022 college football season was a rollercoaster ride for the Wisconsin Badgers but they ended with a bittersweet 24-17 victory over the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the Guaranteed Bowl. On one hand, Wisconsin football managed to win their third bowl game since 2020. On the other hand, it marked the end of Jim Leonhard’s […]

With the Wisconsin Badgers hiring a new head coach in Luke Fickell, one of the first dominoes to fall in Madison is the apparent looming transfer of quarterback Graham Mertz to another program. Mertz announced his decision to move on from Wisconsin football and enter the transfer portal, via Twitter. pic.twitter.com/IRutP1IQCn — Graham Mertz (@GrahamMertz5) […]

The search appears to be over for the next head coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats, with sources of Enquirer Sports saying that the program has found its replacement for Luke Fickell. Per Keith Jenkins, Cincinnati football will soon make an official announcement about Scott Satterfield becoming the newest head coach of the AAC program. Sources […]

Former Wisconsin interim football head coach Jim Leonhard will return to the Badgers as the team’s defensive coordinator under head coach Luke Fickell, according to a Sunday report from Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Badgers beat reporter Jeff Potrykus. It is unclear whether Mike Tressel, Fickell’s defensive coordinator and linebackers coach with the Bearcats, will make the trip […]

Luke Fickell is now the head coach in Madison and will be leading the Wisconsin Badgers football program starting in 2023. He has some work to do to get Wisconsin back to where it was only a few short years ago, contending for Big Ten championships on a regular basis. That’s the angle we’re going […]

After six incredibly successful seasons at the helm, Luke Fickell has departed Cincinnati for Wisconsin ,with Kerry Coombs taking over as the interim coach. As the Bearcats move to the Big 12 this coming season, this search is among the most important in school history for their long-term stability. Luke Fickell’s annual salary at Cincinnati was […]

The Cincinnati Bearcats named cornerbacks coach and special teams coordinator Kerry Coombs as the team’s interim head coach after Luke Fickell took the open job for the Wisconsin Badgers football program, according to a Sunday tweet from ESPN College Football Senior writer Pete Thamel. Luke Fickell was hired over Wisconsin interim head coach Jim Leonhard […]

The Wisconsin Badgers football program is finalizing a deal to make Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Luke Fickell its next head coach over interim head coach Jim Leonhard, among others, according to a Sunday report from ESPN. Twitter had more than its fair share of reactions to the hiring as a flurry of tweets either supported […]

The Wisconsin football program is lining up a major move to bring itself back to national relevancy, reportedly finalizing a deal for Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell to take over in the same role in Madison. According to Pete Thamel, the Badgers are deep into discussions with Fickell over the chance to make him Wisconsin’s […]

It’s getting harder and harder to envision a world in which Lane Kiffin is not the next head coach at Auburn, even after his denials. Several reporters, on both the Auburn and Ole Miss side of things, find this to be the case. Numerous people unconnected to either program have also said the coaching world […]

Cincinnati football seems to have struggled with some helmets issues as of late. A few weeks ago, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams got involved in a practice scrum that involved some swinging helmets. Now, the Cincinnati Bearcats faced a different issue with their helmets against Arkansas. During their college football game against […]

The road to the national championship for the Luke Fickell and the Cincinnati Bearcats ended on Friday, as they lost to the mighty Alabama Crimson Tide at the Cotton Bowl to the tune of a 27-6 score. Despite the painful loss, Fickell was all class when he spoke to reporters following the game. Of course, […]