MADISON, WI (WSAU) – The Wisconsin Badgers have had a difficult two weeks. With two games left in the season, the team isn’t yet bowl-eligible after losing two consecutive games to the Indiana Hoosiers and the Northwestern Wildcats.
According to the Badgers Wire, Players’ postgame criticisms came after the NW loss, as safety Hunter Wohler and quarterback Tanner Mordecai mentioned problems with player effort and some not “being fully bought into the program.”
“There are things that you talk about within your family that you don’t talk about outside your family,” Fickell said earlier this week. And I remind those guys that, ‘look, I will never call you out in the media, I’ll never call you out in the public, but I sure as hell will call you out in front of our family.”
“So there are things that we have to be accountable for, but in the big picture of it, I’m responsible. So I put it on my shoulders to make sure that we all are on the same page,” Fickell continued.
ESPN FPI now projects Wisconsin’s bowl game odds have decreased to 87.3% after months of being in the 96-99% range. If Wisconsin loses at home to Nebraska this weekend, their 22-year bowl game streak will be determined by next weekend’s road game in Minnesota.
