Talkin’ Badgers: A Wisconsin Badgers Football and Basketball Podcast

Despite its deflating loss at the hands of a middling Ohio State Buckeyes squad, this Wisconsin basketball team is still the same group that earned t op-10 road wins in Ann Arbor over the Michigan Wolverines and in Champaign over the Illinois Fighting Illini (not to mention a dominating victory over Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans). This UW squad that fell 86-69 in Columbus is the same on...

Facing a 20-point deficit in the first half, all seemed lost for Wisconsin basketball on Wednesday night. By intermission, that lead slimmed narrowly to 18 points, but that was just enough for the Wisconsin Badgers to mount a comeback tied for the largest in program history. Led by John Blackwell’s game-high 23 points, UW, for the second time in eight days, escaped with a dramatic victory over the...

With recent injuries to NBA Draft prospects John Blackwell and Nolan Winter, Wisconsin basketball could be shorthanded when facing the in-state Milwaukee Panthers. As Big Ten play looms, the Wisconsin Badgers cannot afford to slip up, no matter their injury situation. If Blackwell and Winter are unable to play, UW will quickly have to find the secondary scoring options it has been lacking. Against...

All wins on an NCAA Tournament resume are good wins. But a win, in a presumably hostile environment, against a top-20 team would be a great win on Wisconsin basketball ‘s NCAA Tournament resume. The No. 24 Wisconsin Badgers are out west in Salt Lake City, Utah, to face the No. 9 BYU Cougars. Although the team that cut UW’s March Madness run short less than eight months ago is above Wisconsin in th...

When the Wisconsin Badgers took to Barry Alvarez Field inside Camp Randall Stadium against the Washington Huskies, Luke Fickell had earned three votes of confidence from Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh. Still, he had yet to earn one from Badgers fans . Under Fickell’s stewardship, Wisconsin football had lost six consecutive games, had not beaten a Big Ten foe in over a year, and was 0-9 again...

A third of the college football regular season remains unplayed, but University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh has seen enough. McIntosh has decided that , even if Wisconsin football finishes 2-10, Luke Fickell will be the Wisconsin Badgers’ head coach in 2026. BadgerNotes columnist Seamus Rohrer, who declared on September 20th, 2025, that it was time “to move on from Luke Ficke...

A third of the college football regular season remains unplayed, but University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh has seen enough. McIntosh has decided that , even if Wisconsin football finishes 2-10, Luke Fickell will be the Wisconsin Badgers’ head coach in 2026. BadgerNotes columnist Seamus Rohrer, who declared on September 20th, 2025, that it was time “to move on from Luke Ficke...

Four games remain on the 2025 Wisconsin football schedule, but you would not know it from the headlines coming out of Madison. On a bombshell news day, University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Chris McIntosh quashed any speculation on Luke Fickell’s job security, indicating that the Badgers head coach will return to the sideline of Barry Alvarez Field in 2026. “Coach Fickell has had my confid...

It has not yet translated to wins on the field, but Wisconsin football head coach Luke Fickell believes his team is moving in the right direction. “Internally, we are seeing a growth; it’s a little bit harder to see externally,” Fickell said two-thirds of the way through his third season at the helm of the Wisconsin Badgers. Week-to-week, month-to-month, season-to-season, that internal growth has...

Bye weeks in college football are well known for creating more opportunities for up-and-coming talent . With six consecutive losses in the rearview mirror, Wisconsin football head coach Luke Fickell seems to be leaving no stone unturned. At his weekly press conference, Fickell said true freshman Carter Smith is ‘in the mix’ to start this week against the Washington Huskies. The potential switch co...

With the Wisconsin basketball preseason finally in the rearview mirror , the Wisconsin Badgers play a meaningful game tonight inside the Kohl Center. Before UW takes on the Campbell Fighting Camels, get caught up on what we know about the season to come with Talkin’ Badgers . With the expectation of being a team to finish in the top half of a loaded Big Ten, Badgers head coach Greg Gard will be ch...

With the Wisconsin basketball preseason finally in the rearview mirror , the Wisconsin Badgers play a meaningful game tonight inside the Kohl Center. Before UW takes on the Campbell Fighting Camels, get caught up on what we know about the season to come with Talkin’ Badgers . With the expectation of being a team to finish in the top half of a loaded Big Ten, Badgers head coach Greg Gard will be ch...

Fans of all kinds of Wisconsin sports saw their other favorite teams outscore the Wisconsin football team in October. In four games, including two in which the Wisconsin Badgers failed to score any points, the UW offense managed to put a meager 17 points on the board. Wisconsin scored a touchdown in the first quarter of its first game in October and did not find the end zone again until the final...

NCAA rule changes have brought the college basketball preseason out from behind the closed doors of so-called “secret scrimmages.” On Friday, Wisconsin basketball gets its season unofficially underway in its first-ever public preseason exhibition against a high-major opponent. Greg Gard and the new-look Wisconsin Badgers are headed to Milwaukee to take on the Oklahoma Sooners. Both Gard and OU hea...

Kedrick Stumbris is joined by hythloday1 of Addicted to Quack to break down the upcoming matchup between the Wisconsin Badgers and Oregon Ducks. Last season, Wisconsin football led Oregon by a touchdown through three quarters, but ultimately fell a field goal short of knocking off the then-undefeated and top-ranked Ducks. Now, the path to a potential upset appears much more daunting as UW sits at...

Dillon Graff and Kedrick Stumbris return from Big Ten basketball media days flush with quotes, handshakes, and interviews from college basketball players and coaches across the conference. Most importantly, they return with the biggest storylines for Wisconsin basketball entering the season. Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard led an offensive revolution in Madison last season, but the Badgers seem to...

Despite losing by two touchdowns to the Michigan Wolverines, Wisconsin football undoubtedly put together its most complete on-field performance of the season. A mostly average offensive performance and an above-average defensive performance inspired some confidence in the Wisconsin Badgers. Head coach Luke Fickell, however, continues to make puzzling in-game decisions. Talkin’ Badgers breaks down...

The NCAA cannot help but continue to tweak transfer portal rules that it has already proven unenforceable. After former Wisconsin football defensive back Xavier Lucas transferred to the Miami Hurricanes, despite the Wisconsin Badgers never submitting Lucas’ portal paperwork, do these rule changes even matter? A late-night edition of Talkin’ Badgers explores the good and bad of a switch to one tran...

Wisconsin Badgers head coach Luke Fickell is headed to Ann Arbor in hopes of getting his first-ever win over a ranked opponent with Wisconsin football . Michigan is stout on both its offensive and defensive lines. Join the Talkin’ Badgers crew as they attempt to concoct the recipe for a Badgers upset of the Wolverines. Following Fickell in the never-ending battle against expectations is Greg Gard....

Their young quarterbacks’ hips will tie the Michigan Wolverines and Wisconsin Badgers for the next few years. Carter Smith joined Wisconsin football after seeing the writing on the wall in Ann Arbor that read, “Bryce Underwood is coming.” The five-star freshman QB has excelled for Michigan thus far and hopes to lead his team to a victory over Wisconsin on Saturday. Smith will likely not be on the...

In the hours following the first-ever Wisconsin football loss to the Maryland Terrapins, Seamus Rohrer came to a definitive conclusion: he has seen enough. In a pair of columns this week, Rohrer explains why he believes the Wisconsin Badgers need to move on from Luke Fickell, and grades the performance of UW’s position groups, coaches, and fans one-third of the way through the season. Although thi...

Despite entering the season with low expectations for Wisconsin football , the Talkin’ Badgers After Dark crew was shocked by the disaster inside Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday. Without concrete answers available, an hour of soul-searching ensued. The Wisconsin Badgers have big questions to answer, but the program’s first-ever loss to the Maryland Terrapins should not be left in the rearview mir...

Even without speaking himself this week, Luke Fickell’s job security continues to dominate conversations. Cam Wilhorn of Wisconsin Badgers OnSI returns to Talkin' Badgers as the fallout continues after Wisconsin's 27-10 loss to the Maryland Terrapins. Wilhorn assesses what he sees as the worst aspects of the Wisconsin football roster. From the offensive line to the secondary, the Badgers have disa...

The last time Wisconsin football had as few yards per rush as they did in their 27-10 loss, its head coach did not coach another football game at UW. Wisconsin’s 1.45 yards per carry on Saturday were the fewest in the Luke Fickell era, and its total 61 yards on the ground were the second-fewest of Fickell’s tenure in Madison. With a bye week upcoming, Wisconsin Badgers fans now have ample time to...

For the fifth time in the past four seasons, and the fourth time in the Luke Fickell era, Wisconsin football has a new “rock bottom.” A loss to the Maryland Terrapins, the first in program history, in which the Wisconsin Badgers never led, is the latest data point showing Wisconsin is not just trending downward; it is in a complete, undeniable tailspin. Between on-field execution failures in a run...