Sept 6 | Wisconsin

NDFAN2008 · 2026-09-04T07:58:54-0400

Crazy Balki said:
Matt Freeman noted that he doesn't think KVA plays on Sunday. Says it isn't because of a setback, but they appear to be exercising caution with getting him back out there.

Probally smart i’d rather have him against BYU and Miami healthy

Dale · 2026-09-04T08:04:23-0400

Crazy Balki said:
Matt Freeman noted that he doesn't think KVA plays on Sunday. Says it isn't because of a setback, but they appear to be exercising caution with getting him back out there.

Questionable has effectively meant Doubtful injury report wise

NDPhilly · 2026-09-04T08:06:25-0400

John Brice says he’s been told by multiple sources Wisconsin has spent $30M on this roster …. Where?

FWIrish4 · 2026-09-04T08:25:05-0400

NDPhilly said:
John Brice says he’s been told by multiple sources Wisconsin has spent $30M on this roster …. Where?

Agreed. It shows how acquiring talent through the portal is vastly more expensive than acquiring high school talent and retaining.

arrowryan · 2026-09-04T08:35:08-0400

Interesting stat brought up by Jamie U, regarding Wisconsin’s QB

Out of his 1,000 rushing yards last year, over 900 of them came from designed runs. Meaning he isn’t much a scrambler when he drops back to throw.

Black Irish · 2026-09-04T08:41:18-0400

NDPhilly said:
John Brice says he’s been told by multiple sources Wisconsin has spent $30M on this roster …. Where?

Cheese and beer brats?

greyhammer90 · 2026-09-04T09:22:16-0400

Watched the Shane Gillis interview on the Film Guy YouTube channel. When they were predicting the game, Austin said that he thought Wisconsin would be waking up on Monday with buyer's remorse on the ODU QB and said he was a "scheme merchant."

zelezo vlk · 2026-09-04T09:55:06-0400

NDPhilly said:
John Brice says he’s been told by multiple sources Wisconsin has spent $30M on this roster …. Where?

Sconny took forever to embrace NIL and honestly doesn't have much money to begin with. Since they were so far behind the 8 ball, it cost a lot to bring in players to revamp the team. We should take this as a life lesson that sometimes it costs money to be so dang cheap

ACamp1900 · 2026-09-04T09:58:50-0400

Jimmy3Putt said:
I'd argue the 13th ranked team had a great chance to win it all last year.

More to the point though, teams 13-20 won't have a chance, but it spreads the wealth. It allows everyone a chance at the post season.

Selfishly, making it the top 20 solves three huge issues for us:
-It shuts up the 2 or maybe 3 (Texas) loss crybabies.
-it brings back quality regular season matchups. Teams will schedule us again.
-It allows the smaller conferences a chance at playoffs and a piece of the pie.

Yall are already thinking ‘in an expanded playoff era’… I’m coming from when did those teams ever historically have any legit claim before this nonsense.

IRISHDODGER · 2026-09-04T10:00:07-0400

zelezo vlk said:
Sconny took forever to embrace NIL and honestly doesn't have much money to begin with. Since they were so far behind the 8 ball, it cost a lot to bring in players to revamp the team. We should take this as a life lesson that sometimes it costs money to be so dang cheap

If Fickell doesn’t bounce back this year, his initial OC hire will be what did him in. Bringing in Longo to totally revamp the offensive philosophy of a program so steeped in power football is akin to what Rich Rod did coming over to scUM from WVU. Good HC but trying to force a square into a circle is just futile.

Now they have infused some NIL & more talent. I’m sure they had to pay to keep the two stud LB that excelled last season as freshmen. The ASU CB didn’t come cheap. Nor did their RB & QB. Will it all come together? Who knows? The schedule is navigable & their defense should be top 25. They aren’t Purdue.

irish2104 · 2026-09-04T10:00:29-0400

If there not playing KVA they must be pretty confident......

GreenGemsOmally · 2026-09-04T10:20:57-0400

irish2104 said:
If there not playing KVA they must be pretty confident......

I mean, LB is deep talent and experience. Bowen, Sneed, Ausberry, Faraimo will do a great job.

KPENN · 2026-09-04T10:29:47-0400

stlnd01 · 2026-09-04T10:31:36-0400

IRISHDODGER said:
If Fickell doesn’t bounce back this year, his initial OC hire will be what did him in. Bringing in Longo to totally revamp the offensive philosophy of a program so steeped in power football is akin to what Rich Rod did coming over to scUM from WVU. Good HC but trying to force a square into a circle is just futile.

Now they have infused some NIL & more talent. I’m sure they had to pay to keep the two stud LB that excelled last season as freshmen. The ASU CB didn’t come cheap. Nor did their RB & QB. Will it all come together? Who knows? The schedule is navigable & their defense should be top 25. They aren’t Purdue.

Would love to see Wisconsin go 8-4 or 9-3 and hang around the bottom of the Top 25. It's not out of the question, given their schedule, and would do wonders for our SOS. Bonus points if they could inflict a little misery on USC in Madison on Oct. 24.

pumpdog20 · 2026-09-04T10:34:45-0400

KPENN said:

Short and sweet, and "our actions have to match our words"... these dudes are freaking ready.

GowerND11 · 2026-09-04T11:57:57-0400

ACamp1900 said:
Yall are already thinking ‘in an expanded playoff era’… I’m coming from when did those teams ever historically have any legit claim before this nonsense.

Bingo.

arrowryan · 2026-09-04T12:12:37-0400

Dale · 2026-09-04T12:54:27-0400

NDPhilly said:
John Brice says he’s been told by multiple sources Wisconsin has spent $30M on this roster …. Where?

This site is total BS but shows their estimates to get to $20 million:

https://thenilstandard.com/football/teams/wisconsin

dublinirish · 2026-09-04T13:00:27-0400

Dizzyphil · 2026-09-04T13:07:55-0400

dublinirish said:

Would really hope KVA can play.....

Hawkeyerish · 2026-09-04T13:10:57-0400

Anybody have opinions on seating section as we've never been to Lambeau. This will be our teenage daughter's first Irish game and she's ecstatic.

texbender · 2026-09-04T13:38:13-0400

Notre Dame on west side of field, if that matters.

greyhammer90 · 2026-09-04T13:51:14-0400

texbender said:
Notre Dame on west side of field, if that matters.

West best, east least. I don't make the rules but I'm pretty sure we're going to win now.

calvegas04 · 2026-09-04T14:31:21-0400

Taking foreeeever for this game to come

Crazy Balki · 2026-09-04T15:04:05-0400

Dizzyphil said:
Would really hope KVA can play.....

I mentioned yesterday, but from what it sounds, this isn't a matter of "he can't play" and more of a matter of "he can play but they're choosing not to".

No sense in throwing him back in week 1 coming off a knee injury, it's a long season.

IrishLax · 2026-09-04T16:09:26-0400

NDPhilly said:
John Brice says he’s been told by multiple sources Wisconsin has spent $30M on this roster …. Where?

Your base revenue share is about $20M and then you have to cut in basketball, etc.. So that's baked in -- good or bad -- for pretty much every Big Ten and SEC program. Then they're paying premiums to entice a large transfer class, but yeah spending $30M to end up with zero high or mid NFL prospects is kinda nutty when ND is spending... $40M? ... and has like 15-20 guys that will be drafted.

WineGate · 2026-09-04T16:45:33-0400

NDPhilly said:
Showing 13 4 stars for them, so like 3 a class including transfer, which looks right when u look at 247. In general the talent levels really fall off a cliff outside the top 15-20 so not too surprised they are 32.

Punt and Rally is definitely way lower on them then most. Here’s a few of the other well known ones:

Sargarin: 26!!!
DokterEntropy: 37 - most predictive 2025
TeamRankings.com: 41
FPI: 42
Slate Fluker: 33

FWIW Dokter Entropy (most predictive 2025) has us #1 🤷‍♂️

Dokter has it right again here as usual. Not sure what Punt and Rally is doing. I've found data quality issues on that site before in other sections and the format is a mess across the board (no offense if you're affiliated with that site in any way).

NDPhilly · 2026-09-04T16:59:01-0400

WineGate said:
Dokter has it right again here as usual. Not sure what Punt and Rally is doing. I've found data quality issues on that site before in other sections and the format is a mess across the board (no offense if you're affiliated with that site in any way).

None taken - not affiliated in anyway and agree the power ratings are off, can’t be that far from the most predictive and be a good way of doing it.

ozzman · 2026-09-04T17:41:13-0400

Vettix has a lottery going for the game if any other vets are looking for tickets

pumpdog20 · 2026-09-04T17:47:18-0400

ozzman said:
Vettix has a lottery going for the game if any other vets are looking for tickets

man, wish I could go

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