Without further delay, here are the Best, Worst, and Most Likely outcomes for Fick’s heavy underdogs in this contest. If you’re the drinking type, now is a good time to pound a shot.
If Wisconsin comes in with a solid game plan and plays tough, disciplined ball from the jump, there’s a shot they can keep the contest from being a Wolverine romp. This will be a defense-led “effort game” (like Oregon in 2024) that Michigan can’t quite run away with, but finds just enough plays to pull away from the Badgers in the second half when it counts.
Prediction: Michigan 27-13.
Suppose the Badgers bring the Maryland game effort/execution to the Big House. In that case, they will get obliterated by a defense full of future NFL guys and a quarterback in Bryce Underwood that’s even better and more crafty than Maryland’s Malik Washington. Underwood has to be greedily licking his chops at the chance to exploit an underperforming and banged-up Wisconsin secondary.
Here, the Wolverines curb stop Bucky early and often, and swagger off after with an easy, breezy blowout win that turns the FIRE FICK volume all the way up to 11 in Madtown.
Prediction: Michigan 45-3.
The Wolverines’ superior coaching/horses and robust home stadium advantage combine to make it a long Saturday for the Badgers, who finish the game with more questions than they had coming in as Iowa waits in the wings. Next Saturday night immediately becomes Fickell’s most important game to date as Wisconsin’s coach.
Prediction: Michigan 38-10.
